I\'ve taken to using rem\'s to size fonts in recent projects, then using px as a fallback for older versions of IE.
rem
I\'ve also been setting a font
font
This seems to be a Chrome bug; see Issue 319623: Rendering issue when using % + REMs in CSS, and/or a partly-merged duplicate: Issue 320754: font-size does not inherit if html has a font-size in percentage, and body in rem