It’s the sort of thing that only really happens when you get to the end of the day, and the document you are supposed to be working on is beginning to sap your life away. That’s when you start chatting. “What would happen if we change the font size on Chinwag Jobs?”.

Fateful, I tell you, fateful. Twenty minutes later and there’s a demo version of the website hewn from raw CSS. If that’s all geek to you, take a look at the screenshots below. What do you think? Clearer than the current version? More cluttered?

We’d really, really like to hear your thoughts on this. If nothing else, it’ll provide much-needed ammo to one side of the font size argument. Do you think the fonts should, in general, be larger? Click on the thumbnails below to see the full-sized images.

And if you’re having trouble spotting the difference, check out the left-hand menu of this page and compare it to the full-sized screenshot. We’ve brought up the size a couple of pixels and the same with the body text, the second screenshot shows this best.

Homepage Mocked Up With Larger Font (Click Image for Full-Size Version)

Text Page Mocked Up With Larger Font (Click Image for Full-Size Version)

Search Results Mocked Up With Larger Font (Click Image for Full-Size Version)