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Gridset
"Gridset is a tool for making grids. It lets you create whatever type of grid you want: columnar, asymmetrical, ratio, compound, fixed, fluid, responsive and more. It serves multiple grids to your site based on breakpoints for different devices. Using it is as simple as embedding a link."
Type  CSS  RWD  Layout  Grids 
march 2012 by tbrown
CSS Column Breaks | Trent Walton
"Rather than using a more traditional HTML & CSS column/grid approach, I opted for column-count to keep everything extra efficient & scalable. The trouble is, sometimes content gets split across columns awkwardly."
CSS  Layout  Type 
february 2012 by tbrown
LukeW | An Event Apart: Detail in Web Typography
Luke Wroblewski: "In his presentation at An Event Apart in Minneapolis MN, Richard Rutter walked through a preview of the detailed typographic control CSS3 will offer in the future. Here's my notes from his talk."
Type  CSS3  CSS  Richard-Rutter  OpenType 
january 2012 by tbrown
Controlling Web Typography
Trent Walton: "Lettering.js is a solution, but perhaps it’s not the ultimate solution. […] Here’s a brief timeline recounting what’s already been discussed."
Type  JS  CSS 
february 2011 by tbrown
New Bulletproof Font-Face Syntax
Ethan Dunham: "The hack that makes this work is the '#' following the EOT filename. Seriously."
CSS  Type  @font-face 
february 2011 by tbrown
Controlling text size in iOS Safari
Roger Johansson on viewport width settings and text zooming.
Type  CSS  HTML  iOS 
december 2010 by tbrown
24 ways: My CSS Wish List
What Inayaili de León would like to see made real. Lots of thoughtful typographic stuff here. Great list.
Type  CSS 
december 2010 by tbrown
The History of CSS Resets
Michael Tuck: "By using a CSS reset, you’re setting the styles of the fundamental CSS elements to a baseline value, thusly rendering the browsers’ varying style defaults moot."
Type  CSS 
december 2010 by tbrown
Type study: A layered text shadow
Ryan Essmaker for Typekit: "The header and quote at the bottom of the site are set apart by a text shadow. This gives it a three-dimensional feel and emulates offset printing mishaps occasionally seen in newspapers."
Type  CSS 
december 2010 by tbrown
Type-a-file
"A simple CSS stylesheet that adhered to best typographic practices that anyone could just grab and run with."
Type  CSS  from twitter_favs
november 2010 by tbrown
Lettering.js
"Web type is exploding all over the web but CSS currently doesn't offer complete down-to-the-letter control. So we created a jQuery plugin."
Type  CSS  jQuery  from twitter_favs
october 2010 by tbrown
YUI 2: Fonts CSS
Yahoo's recommendations for font size normalization across browsers and the method recommended by HTML5 Boilerplate. Explains why to use percentages to size type, rather than pixels or ems, and has a reference for common type sizes.
Type  CSS  Measurement 
september 2010 by tbrown
Lucida Improved Font Stack
Matt Wiebe explores the @font-face definition's src property to make a single family out of visitors' local Lucida Grande and Lucida Sans fonts.
Type  CSS 
september 2010 by tbrown
I ♥ BLUR
Simurai: "But what if you wanna turn text into smoke? Luckily you can set the text-fill-color to transparent and that gives your text a really nice smoky blur."
Type  CSS3  CSS 
june 2010 by tbrown
@font-face gotchas « Paul Irish
Good to know, @font-face gotchas: compiled by @paul_irish
Type  CSS  Web-Fonts 
may 2010 by tbrown
The history of a model for fonts on the Web
SXSW presentation from Bert Bos, co-creator of CSS, on why we are where we are: "When W3C proposed to resurrect the Fonts Working Group in order to standardize the next version of EOT, the three browser makers [Opera, Mozilla, Apple] protested violently."
W3C  CSS  Type  Web-Standards  WOFF  Typography 
march 2010 by tbrown
Smoother @font-face embedding in IE 7 & 8
Disabling ClearType with CSS filter and zoom properties.
Type  CSS  Browsers 
march 2010 by tbrown
CSS Fonts Module Level 3 - Editor's Draft
"This CSS3 module describes how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically. The contents of this specification are a consolidation of content previously divided into CSS3 Fonts and CSS3 Web Fonts modules."
CSS  Type  from twitter_favs
march 2010 by tbrown
Sub-Pixel Problems in CSS
John Resig: "The problem then becomes: Which way do you round the number? Up, down, or a mixture of the two?"
Type  CSS  Measurement 
march 2008 by tbrown

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