Incremental leading (Mark Boulton)
Boulton offers a refinement to the "vertical rhythm" CSS techniques that have gotten so much attention lately. It's an adaptation of a print design technique that keeps smaller sidebar text form being too widely spaced, while still maintaining an overall sense of rhythm and proportion. Drawbacks: runs afoul of Safari bugs, results may be dependent on the presence of certain fonts.
- Web Address: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/incremental_leading/
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Short Link: http://ma.gnolia.com/sufofom
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Tags: css, grid systems, tips, tutorial, typography, design, web development, browsers, bugs, fonts
- Saved to All Things CSS by Adam Messinger on June 25, 2007.
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September 24, 2007 |
To my eyes, there is too much line-height to the sidenote. So, how can we reduce this line-height, but adhere to the 18px rhythm? Instead of aligning every line in the sidenote with the vertical rhythm, when you use incremental... |
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August 22, 2007 |
Mark Boulton is a designer based in Cardiff, UK. Specialising in usable, functional and elegant design acquired through rigorous problem solving. |
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August 11, 2007 |
Mark Boulton is a designer based in Cardiff, UK. Specialising in usable, functional and elegant design acquired through rigorous problem solving. |
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October 5, 2007 |
Building upon baseline grid advice from Richard Rutter and Wilson Minor, Mark Boulton explains how to space sidenotes to multiples of the main grid - hitting every fourth or fifth baseline - so as to look right with the baseline a... |
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| CSS Design | Incremental leading : Journal : Mark Boulton |
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July 5, 2007 |
Mark Boulton is a designer based in Cardiff, UK. Specialising in usable, functional and elegant design acquired through rigorous problem solving. |
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| Web typography | Incremental leading : Journal : Mark Boulton |
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June 21, 2007 |
Mark Boulton builds on Richard Rutter’s “Composing to a vertical rhythm” and Wilson Miner’s “Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid.” He shows how to use incremental leading for side notes and other small type. |
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June 15, 2007 |
Building upon baseline grid advice from Richard Rutter and Wilson Minor, Mark Boulton explains how to space sidenotes to multiples of the main grid - hitting every fourth or fifth baseline - so as to look right with the baseline a... |
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| Advanced CSS | Incremental leading : Journal : Mark Boulton |
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June 15, 2007 |
From Mark's @media 2007 presentation ‘Five Simple Steps to Better Typography’. Vertical Rhythm and Incremental leading, or Incremental line-height. |
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