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Has a change been made to the default text size on the Sci-fi main site? I can't see any setting that I've changed, but everything is at a smaller size there than any other part of the stack exchange network, including here on meta.

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Definitely not the zoom, I've got a default chrome install with no plugins in the way. But, the issue goes away in both Firefox and Chrome incognito, which suggests a personal setting somewhere...

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    What browser, etc are you using? Have you accidentally used the zoom function on your browser to make the text smaller/larger?
    – Valorum
    Apr 5, 2021 at 17:51

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Update: For me at least this turns out to be a user (me) error. The Stylus plugin is enforcing the older SE layout which used a 1.3 line-height instead of 1.5. In fact I railed against a 1.5 line height at the time.

I tracked down the rogue source of the line-height: 1.3 !important; to an inline style applied to the page after it was fetched, and found the plug-in modifying the page.


There does in fact appear to be something going on with the line-height attribute. Other text sizing attributes appear to be unchanged, but I'm seeing a line-height of 19.5px for SF&F, but 22.5px for meta.scifi and other SE sites.

22.5px appears to be what would be expected based on the CSS:

.s-prose {
    --s-prose-line-height: 1.5;
    --s-prose-spacing: 1.1em;
    --s-prose-spacing-condensed: calc(var(--s-prose-spacing) / 2);
    font-size: 15px;
    line-height: var(--s-prose-line-height);
    word-wrap: break-word
}
<div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text">
                
<p>Has a change been made to the default text size on the Sci-fi main site? I can't see any setting that I've changed, but everything is at a smaller size there than any other part of the stack exchange network, including here on meta.</p>
    </div>

I'm not sure where the 19.5 is coming from.

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