http://topfunky.com/baseline-rhythm-calculator/ I`m going to test 14/21 for the sheer hell of it.
ss On Sep 5, 5:40 am, "Christian Montoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Subsorama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 4 Sep 2008, at 21:34, Christian Montoya wrote: > > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Subsorama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> On 4 Sep 2008, at 17:58, Christian Montoya wrote: > > >>>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:03 AM, spills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> wrote: > > >>>>> I am sure this has been approached before but, the default 18px > >>>>> baseline height is a horrible multiplier. Why not add 2 lousy > >>>>> pixels > >>>>> to make it 20px high? In layouts where I have added the 2px > >>>>> addition, > >>>>> they seem to work just fine and in Mac world look better in IMO. > >>>>> There > >>>>> is an added benefit of making it easier for clients to maintain > >>>>> layout > >>>>> baseline consistency as they can do math better with 20px rule more > >>>>> so > >>>>> than the 18px rule especially on really long layouts. > > >>>>> Just my 2 cents. > > >>>>> Thanks > > >>>> Your 2 cents are understood, but the reason for the choice is to > >>>> follow the typographic convention of 1.5, where the height of the > >>>> line > >>>> is 1.5 times the height of the text. You could change the line > >>>> height > >>>> to 20 px in your custom stylesheet, but then you wouldn't be able to > >>>> impress the typography nerds with your attention to their > >>>> conventions. > > >>> There is no such convention, if that advice has been proffered to you > >>> as a guide it is overly simplistic to the point of simply being bad > >>> advice. > > >> Let's just step back for a moment. I wrote some of typography.css, and > >> when I did, I followed the conventions discussed on this page: > > >>http://webtypography.net/Rhythm_and_Proportion/Vertical_Motion/2.2.2/ > > >> One important thing to understand is that while 12 px text height & 20 > >> px line height might make it easier to do calculations for page > >> designers, Blueprint is not offered as an "out-of-the-box" solution to > >> page designers. It is offered as an out-of-the-box solution to people > >> who know the very least about design, so as to help them make > >> something attractive even if they don't know how.* For page designers, > >> they know how to mess with their vertical rhythm, and are free to > >> change it as they please. > > >> * This is my view, not the view of the entire core team. > > > Okay, the fault might lies with Richard Rutter and his examples. His > > sidenotes example differs from the book in that it states line heights > > must match - whereas in the book the actual sidenotes are set much > > tighter - and you can probably find examples of this everywhere. > > Actually I see this is fixed in fancy type. He is still only providing > > an example though and not single set formula which might be mistaken > > for a convention. > > OK, I understand that it's not a convention, but you have to admit > that 1.5 works really nicely as a convention because the line-height > always comes out to a whole value when the font-size is an even > number. So if you wanted to change the text size to a base of 14, your > line-height would be 21, and if you wanted it to be 16, your > line-height would be 24. If you have 12/20, or 1.667, then if you > change your font-size to 14, your line height ends up being a decimal, > which may or may not be rounded correctly. It would only come out to a > whole value for font-sizes that are multiples of 3, which gives you > less options. > > Just an idea... my point is that 12/18 doesn't make hand calculations > easier but the fact that it's 1.5 makes the whole thing more flexible. > > -- > -- > Christian Montoya > christianmontoya.net- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
