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Discussion on: What even is em?

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Tuan Nguyen

i learned from a course on udemy that when set font-size 62.5% in html tag, using rem easier to control, what do you think about this ?

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Kayla Sween

It just makes the math easier. As long as you're not setting the font size to 10px explicitly (as this has negative accessibility impacts), it's just personal preference. I don't mind working with 16px, so I just prefer not to change it. 😊