1. Flexible Text
Size text using keywords and percentages or ems to allow user control and maximum flexibility
Few Web design topics are as storied and controversial as sizing text for the Web. Historically, it’s been known to confuse beginners, fuel arguments, and divide nations. Well, perhaps that’s exaggerating things a bit, but it truly can be a sticky subject for many.
While I’m in no position to rid the world of its war on text sizing, in this chapter I share two strategies for sizing text on the Web that are both flexible and easy to implement—and at the same time allow you to maintain as much design control as possible.
The allowance for flexibility in sizing text is one of the keys that drive the rest of the examples in this book—that ...
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