Just about to implement a new site a while back and the owner asked the question: "Can we make the font size bigger - at least twice the current size?"
Not sure if he was on a very high resolution monitor with tiny writing, but the font size was already Arial 10pt in the body of the site. Going to Arial 20pt is really massive...
What difference does it make doubling the text size during implementation? Well, for a start, arial 20pt font isn't what you would get on a normal site for the body of the text (maybe if it was visually impaired etc, this wasn't). But by asking for the change all of the proportions are suddenly thrown out.
The nicely linked in images that position relative to the text are suddenly spaced incorrectly. Titles, with bigger font sizes, need you to sit back to read. Links in the margin are suddenly flowing over the edge of the margin - requiring the entire graphics on the site to be rebuilt.
And it looks 'unusual'. Maybe a lot of his customers are visually impaired - I don't know. It certainly looks as though that's who he is aiming at.
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