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Set font size proportional to user's font size
According to MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-size), > To maximize accessibility, it is generally best to use values that > are relative to the user's default font size. > Defining font sizes in px is not accessible, because the user cannot > change the font size in some browsers. Note that changing font size (in browser or OS settings) is distinct from the zoom functionality triggered with Ctrl/Cmd-+. Zoom functionality increases the size of everything on the page, effectively applying a multiplier to all pixel sizes. Font size changes apply to just text. For relative font sizes, we could use `em`, as we do in several places already. However that has a problem of "compounding" (see MDN article for details). The compounding problem is nicely solved by `rem`, which make font sizes relative to the root element, not the parent element. Since we were using a hodge-podge of pixel sizes, em, rem, and percentage sizes before, this change switching everything to rem, while keeping the same size relative to our old default of 16px. 16px is still the default on most browsers, for users that haven't set a larger or smaller font size.
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