There’s a broader point here about declarative design:
Setting very specific values may feel like you’re in more control, but you’reactually rescinding control by introducing fragility in the form of overly-specific CSS.
Some excellent explanations for these five pieces of sensible typography advice:
- Set your base font size in relative units
- Check the colour of your type and only then its contrast
- Use highly legible fonts
- Shape your paragraphs well
- Correctly use the heading levels
This is a very handy piece of work by Rich:
The idea is to set sensible typographic defaults for use on prose (a column of text), making particular use of the font features provided by OpenType. The main principle is that it can be used as starting point for all projects, so doesn’t include design-specific aspects such as font choice, type scale or layout (including how you might like to set the line-length).
Progressive enhancement is a design and development principle where we build in layers which automatically turn themselves on based on the browser’s capabilities.
The idea of progressive enhancement is thateveryone gets the perfect experience for them,rather than a pre-determined “perfect” experience from a design and development team.
Hallelujah! We’re finally getting our two wishes for CSS animations and transitions:
- Animating to and from
display: none;for the sake of enter/exit animations.- Animating to and from the intrinsic size of an element (such as
height: auto;).
Laying out sheet music with CSS grid—sounds extreme until you see it abstracted into a web component.
We need fluid and responsive music rendering for the web!
You might want to use `display: contents`…maybe.
Had you heard of these bits of CSS? Me too/neither!
Going back to school in Amsterdam.
The joy of getting hands-on with HTML and CSS.
Separate your concerns.