feat(select): allow support for any font-size

src/components/select/select.js

@@ -1485,7 +1485,7 @@ function SelectProvider($$interimElementProvider) {
         }
       }
 
-      var left, top, transformOrigin, minWidth;
+      var left, top, transformOrigin, minWidth, fontSize;
       if (shouldOpenAroundTarget) {
         left = targetRect.left;
         top = targetRect.top + targetRect.height;
@@ -1503,6 +1503,8 @@ function SelectProvider($$interimElementProvider) {
           (centeredRect.top + centeredRect.height / 2 - contentNode.scrollTop) + 'px 0px';
 
         minWidth = Math.min(targetRect.width + centeredRect.paddingLeft + centeredRect.paddingRight, maxWidth);
+
+        fontSize = window.getComputedStyle(targetNode)['font-size'];
       }
 
       // Keep left and top within the window
@@ -1516,7 +1518,8 @@ function SelectProvider($$interimElementProvider) {
           styles: {
             left: Math.floor(clamp(bounds.left, left, bounds.right - containerRect.width)),
             top: Math.floor(clamp(bounds.top, top, bounds.bottom - containerRect.height)),
-            'min-width': minWidth
+            'min-width': minWidth,
+            'font-size': fontSize
           }
         },
         dropDown: {

src/components/select/select.scss

@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ md-input-container.md-input-has-value ._md-select-value {
     position: relative;
     top: 2px;
     speak: none;
+    font-size: 16px;
     transform: scaleY(0.6) scaleX(1);
   }
 
@@ -272,7 +273,6 @@ md-option {
     white-space: nowrap;
     overflow: hidden;
     text-overflow: ellipsis;
-    font-size: rem(1.6);
   }
   padding: 0 $select-option-padding 0 $select-option-padding;
   height: $select-option-height;

src/core/util/animation/animate.js

@@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ function AnimateDomUtils($mdUtil, $q, $timeout, $mdConstant, $animateCss) {
             case 'transformOrigin':
               convertToVendor(key, $mdConstant.CSS.TRANSFORM_ORIGIN, value);
               break;
+            case 'font-size':
+              css['font-size'] = value; // font sizes aren't always in px
+              break;
           }
         }
       });