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A: There are a number of issues in your question, but the key point is that there is no necessary correspondence between HTML font sizes and the CSS font-size property. Yes, these mechanisms affect fonts in a similar way, but any size match will be dependent on the browser and default font settings any user has. This will have to be a process of trial, error and approximation.

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