What are the most common font-sizes for H1-H6 tags
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.
Answer
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
Also worth taking a look at is the default stylesheet for HTML 4. The W3C recommends using these styles as the default. An abridged excerpt:
h1 { font-size: 2em; }
h2 { font-size: 1.5em; }
h3 { font-size: 1.17em; }
h4 { font-size: 1.12em; }
h5 { font-size: .83em; }
h6 { font-size: .75em; }
Hope this information is helpful.