I think the most important feature of an example theme should be relative font sizes. When I was making my own theme based on Kubrik I was seriously disappointed in the 10px font size. If somebody sets up his/her browser to use 50px fonts, it’s because that person wants or needs big fonts; there’s no reason to override this setting.
When kingjeffrey says “Georgia, when sized at 15-16px is just beautiful (and ubiquitously available)”, he means that it looks beautiful on his monitor (or maybe on the standard Windows monitor). 15px is certainly smallish on my monitor, and there’s no Georgia on my computer.
All I’m saying is, a good example theme needs to have a fallback to “serif” and use the default font size for the body text.
All typesetting should be based on em or ex units, not on px. 1px is very, very small on my monitor, and quite big on some other monitors. How did that ever become a unit for size?
