[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18073: Twenty Eleven Font Sizes (and Line Heights)

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#18073: Twenty Eleven Font Sizes (and Line Heights)
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 Reporter:  cgrymala       |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Bundled Theme  |    Version:  3.2
 Severity:  normal         |   Keywords:  2nd-opinion ui-feedback
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 Just out of curiosity, is there a specific reason that the font-size
 properties in the Twenty Eleven style sheet are all coded in pixel sizes
 rather than percentages or em units?

 I understand this gives slightly better control over the exact font sizes,
 but it also makes the theme infinitely more difficult to extend when
 developing a child theme.

 If em units or percentages were used, with a single pixel font-size
 declaration at the top (`html{ font-size: 16px }`, for instance), then a
 person wanting to increase or decrease the base font-size for their
 website would simply need to create a child theme with the following
 content in the style.css file and all of the fonts and line-heights would
 be automatically adjusted.

 {{{
 @import url('../twentyeleven/style.css');
 html{ font-size: 18px }
 }}}

 As it stands, however, if a person wants to increase the base font-size
 for their website using the Twenty Eleven theme, they would have to
 override a total of 71 separate `font-size` declarations (and a handful of
 `line-height` declarations) within the main style.css file for that parent
 theme.

 I'm happy to work up a patch replacing all of the px font-size and line-
 height declarations with em units if there isn't a compelling reason to
 keep those items set in pixels.

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