Last January I started a series asking questions about type sizing & spacing on the web.
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Last January I started a series asking questions about type sizing & spacing on the web. When web.dev asked me to write about the current state of fluid type, I came prepared with graphs. I hope this is a helpful TL;DR for thinking about responsive type in #CSS:
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Last January I started a series asking questions about type sizing & spacing on the web. When web.dev asked me to write about the current state of fluid type, I came prepared with graphs. I hope this is a helpful TL;DR for thinking about responsive type in #CSS:
Some key points:
- The viewport size is an unreliable narrator
- The more type is responsive to the viewport, the less responsive it is to user inputs
- That's true using either media queries or viewport units
- If you do it, keep it minimal, and clamped by user settings
- Test test test -
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