Geoffrey Hoffman wrote:
> I'm not exactly a design or typography purist, so bear that in mind. I like
> your work-in-progress; although I feel the p font size is a bit small,
> especially compared with the headers or subheaders in the copy. Perhaps you
> are following a specific typographic standard here... or perhaps its Cabili
Neither am I, I'm still learning that craft. :)
I tried to create a
> font. Out of curiosity, what is the purpose of basing your entire layout on
> ems? It seems like an extra step of complexity to have to divide out and
> specify things like
I like to keep the layout relative to the text. If I'm looking this on
a large-value ppi monitor then I usually bump the text size one or two
settings up. With this, the layout also expands and keeps the overall look.
> Given the fact that great care has been put into designing on-screen fonts
> at specific pixel/point sizes (eg 10, 11, 12, 14, 18, 24, etc.) and that
> presumably your web designs are meant primarily for screens, it seems to be
This about the font sizes is good point, for default setup. Although I
think that modern fonts scale well for any size, it's worth investigating.
> a bit of a waste of time to me, but what do I know. One nice aspect
> obviously is that changing base font size (grid) in one place or just a few
> places ought to elegantly re-flow through your entire design, but the same
> effect can be achieved with %-based rules too, or simply a different
> stylesheet.
Percentage-based design does not translate directly into the effect I
want, thus I never made a single design that actually used it.
> If I recall some tests I did a while back, I'm not certain all browsers
> respect hundredth or thousandth place em units; that is, 1.275em renders
> identically to 1.3em in at least certain cases.
I'm interested in this, please post a link if there is one.
Thanks
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AV
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