Menu icons are small
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	phuedx
	May 1 2015, 4:49 PM

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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Weird_things:

Several links (including the links to the side menu, the watchlist, the notifications side menu, edit buttons, the "This page has issues" link, the names of articles as presented on the page itself, and possibly others) are all of a sudden slightly bigger, slightly, smaller, or are spaced out differently.

Browser: Chrome
Operating System/Device: Unknown

Reproduced in Google Chrome (42.0.2311.135) on OS X Yosemite logged out/in locally and on enwiki.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Increase main menu font size to 1.2 em	mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend	master	+0 -1

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: rEMFRae48805eabe0: Increase main menu font size to 1.2 em
rMEXT15b5794f7983: Updated mediawiki/extensions Project: mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend…

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phuedx renamed this task from Icons out of alignment and size incorrectly to Icons out of alignment and sized incorrectly.May 1 2015, 4:57 PM

Looks fine to me.. Can a designer confirm? I suspect the user was facing some sort of caching issue.

Hrrrm. Only the menu icons look small to me (logged in/out locally).

… and on enwiki.

Upping the nav's font-size is set to 1 em fixes this, but I'm not sure what's changed around the menu recently to cause this in the first place.

phuedx renamed this task from Icons out of alignment and sized incorrectly to Menu icons are small.May 1 2015, 7:52 PM

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The font size got pushed down to .8 recently triggered by this:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/207282/
Not sure if it was always intended to be that size or not.