I have been arguing in the past about the oversized fonts, especially
the headers. Well I found out something:
I am probably one of the few people that sees the English Wikipedia in
such a large font size. I use MSIE, default settings (medium text, which
suits me fine on most sites), but I use font Arial Unicode MS , this is
a huge (50 Mb) unicode font that shows most foreign languages well.
Microsoft only supplies it with its Office Suite. I installed it
specifically to be able to render other Wp's at their best. Now it turns
out that this font uses a larger point size for medium text (about 15%
larger than Arial). So this explains why I was bothered more than
others.
People on unicode Wikipedias are more likely to have deviated from MSIE
default fonts. I think this is yet another argument why it would be nice
to have user defined skins (without CVS or sysop intervention), people
could pick their favourite from a list of uploaded skins, e.g. sorted by
popularity.
Erik Zachte