diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/css/notebook.css b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/css/notebook.css
index f120183..bcd027a 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/css/notebook.css
+++ b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/css/notebook.css
@@ -58,14 +58,6 @@ hr { display: block; height: 1px; border: 0; border-top: 1px solid #ccc; margin:
 
 input, select { vertical-align: middle; }
 
-
-/**
- * Font normalization inspired by YUI Library's fonts.css: developer.yahoo.com/yui/
- */
-
-body { font:13px/1.231 sans-serif; *font-size:small; } /* Hack retained to preserve specificity */
-select, input, textarea, button { font:99% sans-serif; }
-
 /* Normalize monospace sizing:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.css/Archive_11#Teletype_style_fix_for_Chrome */
 pre, code, kbd, samp { font-family: monospace, sans-serif; }
@@ -74,6 +66,7 @@ pre, code, kbd, samp { font-family: monospace, sans-serif; }
 
 body {
     background-color: white;
+    font-size: 10pt;
 }
 
 span#ipython_notebook h1 {