{"id":35248,"date":"2018-06-29T21:21:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T21:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35248"},"modified":"2018-06-29T21:21:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T21:21:57","slug":"what-is-default-text-font-size-on-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/what-is-default-text-font-size-on-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"What is default text (font) size on Chrome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Self-tutoring about the Chrome browser: the tutor measures its default font size in pixels.<\/h2>\n<p>I opened the Chrome settings and found its font set to &#8220;medium&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I then made a quick page with two divs: one set at 20em, then the other at the pixel width so it matches the first. The matching pixel width turns out to be 320px. Importantly, <em>I didn&#8217;t define font size anywhere on the page<\/em>. Doing so can prejudice the results.<\/p>\n<p>An em, typically is &#8220;one character.&#8221; Therefore, if 20em=320px, then 1em=16px. On this browser, anyway, the default font size is 16px.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/j.eremy.net\/confused-about-rem-and-em\/\">j.eremy.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Web\/CSS\/font-size\">mozilla.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about the Chrome browser: the tutor measures its default font size in pixels. I opened the Chrome settings and found its font set to &#8220;medium&#8221;. I then made a quick page with two divs: one set at 20em, then &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/what-is-default-text-font-size-on-chrome\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is default text (font) size on Chrome?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35248"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35254,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248\/revisions\/35254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}