New code font alternative about assembly HOT 6 CLOSED

we can stick with Menlo, i wonder if it is possible to make sure code font is 1px smaller than paragraph font, for example 14px open sans with 13px menlo

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We shouldn't use a webfont – no need to weigh down the page for code styling. Lets find a nice fontstack that uses default monoweight fonts.

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Our options are either:

• Stick with a Menlo stack
• Use a webfont

I can get inconsolata down to 26kb, maybe smaller. We'd need bold and regular weights. Source code pro has a license that doesn't allow it to be modified (fontsquirrel declined it when i tried to upload it).

If I'm not mistaken, fonts only get loaded if the font is on the page. I am pretty neutral about adding an extra 25-50kb to the page just for monospaced fonts, but I could be influenced either way.

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i wonder if it is possible to make sure code font is 1px smaller than paragraph font

We can do something like that using em units.

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em units on .txt-mono make sense to me.

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done with #322

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