Getting fancy: CSS Transformations
One of the most intriguing things we can do with text is change its position and the way it looks on the screen with nothing but CSS in browsers that support it. The good news is that all browsers...
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Using SASS maps in media queries
Version 3 of SASS introduced the map data type. If you've done work in any other programming type you'll problbly be familiar with maps as associate arrays or hashes; SASS uses the same principle:...
Multicolumn layouts
CSS 3 allows you to create multi column layouts without cheating. According to caniuse.com the feature is supported to some degree by all browser vendors. We'll explore some of the things you can do...
Orphans and Widows
The orphans CSS property refers to the minimum number of lines of text in a container that must be left at the bottom of the page. This property is normally used to control how page breaks occur. In...
Legal Issues
Unless you own the typeface or it is licensed through Google Fonts or another free service, you will have to pay for the font and be subject to whatever restrictions the EULA (End User License...
Unicode and multilingual support
Unicode is an ISO international standard (ISO/IEC 10646) for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text in most of the world's writing systems. It answers the question: How do I...
Open Type features
Open Type fonts have a set of features that make typographical work easier both in print and, where supported, on the web. These features can be enabled. These are a subset of all the Open Type...
Kerning
Kerning (from XKCD1015/) Kerning can refer to one of two things: spacing instructions that type designers put into font files to mitigate awkward character combinations, or spacing adjustments that...
Text Alignment and Hyphenation
Given the same font, alignment and hyphenation have a definitive impact on the way we read content and how it appears on-screen [codepen_embed height="691" theme_id="2039"...
Advanced Typography
Elliot Jay Stocks presented on Advanced Typography at the Generate 2014 conference in London. It provides a lot of information about this subject. Elliot Jay Stocks -- Generate 2014...