Understanding CSS Font Sizes

Seen in the wild. Don't understand. Want to understand. font-size: 1.2857143em; font-size: 2.1428571em; font-size: 1.4285714em; font-size: 1.2857143em; font-size: 0.8571429em; font-size: 0.8571429em; font-size: 0.9em; font-size: 0.8888889em; font-size: 0.8571429em; font-size: 0.8571429em;

A black-background meme shows the captions “Seen in the wild. Don't understand. Want to understand.” above a confusing list of CSS font-size values. The joke is about encountering inexplicable typography in the wild and wanting to understand the overly precise CSS behind it.

• @gentoomemes / 4679 2023-05-22