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Originally Posted by the.Mtn.Man
For what it's worth, the fact that Kobo shows font size via an abstract slider instead of a number is a minor annoyance to me. A number allows for easy repeatability.
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Not really, because the same font size number is a different physical size according to font selected by publisher or user.
It's an issue for people formatting paper or ebooks or websites when say decorative, script (rather than italic) serif, sans or monospace text needs to be mixed. Also while an oblique font is merely a slanted version of the normal font, a true italic font isn't – some italic fonts of the same family have different styling on a or g or numbers or height of descenders etc.
I do care about the numbers when formatting for paper, web or ebook, but when reading an ebook I just jiggle the sliders to get the appearance I want. Sometimes the - & + don't step as desired.
Actually a font doesn't come in every size at 1pt or 1/12th em steps, the requested size is rendered from the nearest available. It's not impossible that the - & + only use steps that actually exist and the slider allows inbetween, but I'm guessing.