Still, too many web designers neglect the importance of typography on the web. So far, I’ve only met a few that really understand typography and know how to apply that knowledge to their work. And the lack of knowledge about typography doesn’t come from ignorance. I learned that web designers are commonly e...
Vincent De Oliveira has written an epic post that details pretty much everything you might ever want to know about the line-height and vertical-align properties. If you’ve ever had trouble aligning things next to text or wondered why two fonts look so wildly different from one another then this post is certainly for ...
Matt Smith:You should always specify line-height as a unitless number (say this into the mirror five times). That way descendent elements that specify a different font size will inherit that number instead of a fixed line height.Counterpoint in the comments by David Khourshid:Unitless line heights are fine, but a...
Dave and I started the latest ShopTalk Show with an audio clip from Tim Brown responding to some of our previous chatter regarding vertical rhythm (and such). Transcription here. It sparked another interesting conversation about these things. A small part of that was about Tim’s coined phrase “molten lead...
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