http://www.designerzen.com design and work of zenon olenski Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:57:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.designerzen.com/2009/07/day-010-typographic-baselines/ http://www.designerzen.com/2009/07/day-010-typographic-baselines/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:09:39 +0000 designerzen http://www.designerzen.com/?p=275 Continue reading →]]> After coding multiple sites this week and evangelising about fixed baselines last week, I have found myself constantly having to do irritating fiddly maths or copy-pasting previously worked out styles. The problem with this is two fold – firstly, many of my new projects are based on a 22 pixel baseline (rendering much of my old code obsolete) and secondly, headlines vary in sizes on every site dependent on the visual aesthetics of the content. This site uses large – well spaced headlines which I had to programatically typeset myself using line-height and margins to maintain a strict vertical rhythm. The maths is not complicated, in fact it is very simple, but if for each site I have to create six headline styles and define the correct kerning which takes time. This has led me to create this Dynamic Typography CSS Generator for typography.I have released the script for all to use. You can read more about it and the many usages for it here.

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