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stephen miller
5,907 Pointsvalues
How do you and nick (the other teacher ive been watching) know what values to use? You just say, "lets add a font-size here of 1.25em" or something like that, and i understand you've pre-made these measurements and color numbers for the video but how do you know which size to use for each element, they all seem to have their own unique number. in short i just want to know how you determined what looks good! Thanks! -Stephen
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Ariel Aronica
6,646 PointsHere's a description of relative length units for CSS. Ems are relative to the current font size, so 1.25 em is .25 times larger than the default font size for the page. So they wanted it to be just a bit bigger than the default font.