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Font Size Best Practices for Body Text and Headings

Text that's too small forces visitors to strain or zoom, quietly undermining the entire experience regardless of how good the rest of the design looks.

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Text that's too small forces visitors to strain or zoom, quietly undermining the entire experience regardless of how good the rest of the design looks.

16 Pixels Is a Common, Reasonable Body Text Baseline

While not a universal rule, a body text size around this range tends to balance readability with efficient use of space across most devices.

Headings Should Create Clear Size Contrast

A heading only slightly larger than body text fails to create the visual hierarchy headings are meant to provide.

Never Rely Solely on Visual Testing at One Screen Size

A font size that looks fine on a large desktop monitor can feel too small once viewed on an actual mobile device.

Next step: Use the Webpage Screen Resolution Simulator to check how your current font sizes actually render across a range of real device screen sizes.