The funny thing is that I have Firefox set to default to 80% of the regular font size and my first thought was, "This article is using a large font size" - and then when I cranked it back up to what a normal person would see, it got kind of out of hand.
I personally use 18px for both desktop/mobile on my blog to keep things consistent and find that it strikes a pretty good balance.
I do like the font choice though - Montserrat is a solid choice for the web.
> Are you doing similar work now?
Unfortunately it's been ages since I worked in the bioinformatics space - I'd love to go back to it in an academic capacity at some point though!