Thanks so much for the feedback!
You’re right that a responsive design would be better, but that would require more complicated CSS, and keeping it simple is why the current default is what it is. (But, yeah, I guess that top padding will have to come down if it can’t be adapted for mobile under the hood.)
As to the font-size, maybe I’m misunderstanding how the defaults work. When I add a new Basic note type in Manage Note Types (on Mac), this is the CSS I see:
.card {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 20px;
text-align: center;
color: black;
background-color: white;
}
Out of curiosity, what don’t you about the appearance of lists? (I prefer them under the proposed style to the default.)