Gridset
march 2012 by tbrown
"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
february 2012 by tbrown
"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
january 2012 by tbrown
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
february 2011 by tbrown
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
february 2011 by tbrown
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
december 2010 by tbrown
Roger Johansson on viewport width settings and text zooming.
Type
CSS
HTML
iOS
december 2010 by tbrown
24 ways: My CSS Wish List
december 2010 by tbrown
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
december 2010 by tbrown
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
december 2010 by tbrown
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
november 2010 by tbrown
"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
october 2010 by tbrown
"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
september 2010 by tbrown
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
september 2010 by tbrown
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
The history of a model for fonts on the Web
march 2010 by tbrown
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
march 2010 by tbrown
Disabling ClearType with CSS filter and zoom properties.
Type
CSS
Browsers
march 2010 by tbrown
CSS Fonts Module Level 3 - Editor's Draft
march 2010 by tbrown
"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
march 2008 by tbrown
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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