The standard of setting text height by px, rather than by ‘point size and hope the browser can guess the display DPI and apply the user’s preferred scaling-factor’ is horrible. In 2009 we shouldn’t be using pixel counts for layout. By 2014 anyone thinking of such a thing would be shot – between netbooks and display walls, you’re never going to get it right.

Back in the glass-teletype days, 80×25 on a ~10″-14″ screen became a standard for a reason. Today our displays are inches bigger and yet designers still pack them with text smaller than the ultra-condensed modes from early SVGA cards. Then again, it seems most designers grew up hunched over and squinting at a Fat Mac’s 9″ display.

Related to this: Back in the days when screens were 4:3, On Macintosh (and Macintosh only), browsers would pop up their windows reserving space for a strip of desktop. This ‘naturally’ provided the equivalent of whitespace, for designers using Macs – or users who eventually realized that designers were using Macs and stopped completely maximizing the browser window – and users could choose their width.

These days, no text content ‘looks right’ in 16:9, and even on the Mac, a ’semi-maximized’ window is too damn wide. Thus the move to fixed-widths and whitespace. This, in turn, is unlikely to scale very well when wall-sized displays become the norm… but since 960 pixels are here to stay for a while, maybe a ‘two-column browser’ will exist by the time I can pick up a 40″ widescreen for my desk.

Desktop users still at 1024×768 or less probably have bad vision and don’t know how to work the zoom feature – chances are they want your text that big. (Don’t believe me? Visit any regular office building.) Netbooks and smartphones, on the other hand… well, that’s still a tough question.

I think text on your site it is, for sure, very well readable.

On the other hand text block is pretty large. Is fine for blogs, but content focused portals couldn’t use it usually.

But for sure it could be bigger than existing, present day, standard.

Your quick lesson about typo should be showed for all future web designers.