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Mastering Responsive Web Design

You're reading from   Mastering Responsive Web Design Push your HTML and CSS skills to the limit and build professional grade, responsive websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783550234
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ricardo Zea Ricardo Zea
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Preface 1. Harness the Power of Sass for Responsive Web Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Marking Our Content with HTML5 3. Mobile-first or Desktop-first? 4. CSS Grids, CSS Frameworks, UI Kits, and Flexbox for RWD 5. Designing Small UIs Driven by Large Finger 6. Working with Images and Videos in Responsive Web Design 7. Meaningful Typography for Responsive Web Design 8. Responsive E-mails Index

Summary

So here we are, levelled up in typography for RWD. Is there more about typography? You bet! This amazing subject is a whole industry in itself, without it we wouldn't be reading this book.

We can now say that we understand why using relative units for typography is a good approach: scalability. Also, using our little magic formula, we can calculate relative font sizes for each of our text elements in our design, but why go through all that trouble? Modular Scale for typography saves the day in that regard, and it injects our projects with awesome typographic harmony. Who knows, maybe we may not need to use images at all!

Brands can now be extended to the web via web fonts, but we need to be careful and consider the impact of using them on our sites/apps. Also, as far as modern browsers go, we only need to use a single file type (WOFF font files), which make things a lot easier to manage—for browsers to download and for users to enjoy.

FlowType.js enhances our headers and...

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