What are the most common font-sizes for H1-H6 tags

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I've always been unsure of where to start as a general best practice baseline. Yes, I know it depends on your design, but what's most common?

Here's what I currently have as a starter:

h1 { font-size: 24px;}
h2 { font-size: 22px;}
h3 { font-size: 18px;}
h4 { font-size: 16px;}
h5 { font-size: 12px;}
h6 { font-size: 10px;}

Yes, we don't use EMs at my current job.

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Solution 1 - Html

It would depend on the browser's default stylesheet. You can view an (unofficial) table of CSS2.1 User Agent stylesheet defaults here.

Based on the page listed above, the default sizes look something like this:

    IE7		IE8		FF2			FF3			Opera	Safari 3.1
H1  24pt	2em		32px		32px		32px	32px	   
H2  18pt	1.5em	24px		24px		24px	24px
H3  13.55pt	1.17em	18.7333px	18.7167px	18px	19px
H4  n/a		n/a		n/a			n/a			n/a		n/a
H5  10pt	0.83em	13.2667px	13.2833px	13px	13px
H6  7.55pt	0.67em	10.7333px	10.7167px	10px	11px

Nowadays, all modern browsers have the same values as defaults.

Solution 2 - Html

Headings are normally bold-faced; that has been turned off for this demonstration of size correspondence. MSIE and Opera interpret these sizes the same, but note that Gecko browsers and Chrome interpret Heading 6 as 11 pixels instead of 10 pixels/font size 1, and Heading 3 as 19 pixels instead of 18 pixels/font size 4 (though it's difficult to tell the difference even in a direct comparison and impossible in use). It seems Gecko also limits text to no smaller than 10 pixels.

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