I see this from source code of a web site:
<font size="-2">@2009 </font>
What does it mean when size is negative?
That is a deprecated style of markup. Nobody should be using it anymore.
Back in the old days, before CSS, you could use the <font> tag to control the relative size of text on the page. A "-2" simply meant two sizes smaller than your base font size.
<font>
Font sizes ranged from 1 to 7 in first generation browsers, if I recall correctly.
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