When something serious happens in the news…
News website headlines get big.
Maybe they think they’re still newspapers. Or they need to make words bigger to remind us how serious it all is.
Let’s look at some examples of how big letters add gravitas:
Israeli troops push deep into Gaza
Earthquake strikes Indonesia
Aliens land in Cotswolds
Lily Allen’s bra kidnapped by asylum seekers
…and new for June ’09…
King of Pop Dead, World In Shock
Achewally, I think you mean font sizes, not typography. If they used more interesting typography, the content might not matter as much. http://new.myfonts.com/
Thank you Ms Pedantic. Actually typography might be used to describe font sizing if web site style sheets are set up separately to cover different design elements i.e. layout, colours, graphics, and typography, which would manage font sizes as well as font faces. But I get your point.