“We’re growing: CEA is increasing its font size” by OllieRodriguez

About this episode

The episode discusses CEA's decision to increase font size across all platforms to reflect community growth and enhance engagement.

“We” in this post refers to CEA leadership, who didn’t write this post. In 2025, we grew engagement with CEA's programs by 20–25% across every tier of engagement. But we recognize that growing the community is about more than engagement or metrics—at its core, growth is about the bigness of things. How can we claim that we’ve grown the community if the words on the page are the same size? To match our ambition off the page, it's time to show ambition on the page. We’re increasing our font size from 15px to 25px across all platforms. You’ll see more from us—clearer text, bigger words, extremely long forum posts. What this means All of our programs will be bigger, in the sense that the documents we write about them will be absolutely huge. The forum will have a larger font than any other sensible website—a bigger font means more impactful ideas. Our events will have larger screens for our ginormous font. This will mean a significant increase in AV costs. We’re encouraging local groups to do the same—we’re recommending a 30% font size increase this year, and we’ll be supporting them to reach 20px font size by the [...] --- First published: April 1st, 2026 Source…

People in this episode

Host: OllieRodriguez

Topics covered

• community growth
• font size increase
• engagement metrics
• effective altruism
• program development

Keywords

• CEA
• font size
• community growth
• engagement
• effective altruism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CEA

Books & works: TYPE III AUDIO

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