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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

Sass mixin for implementing web fonts

To implement web fonts, we need to use the @font-face directive in our CSS… well, SCSS.

The @font-face declaration block looks like this in its vanilla CSS form:

@font-face {
    font-family: fontName;
    src: url('path/to/font.eot'); /*IE9 Compat Modes*/
    src: url('path/to/font.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /*IE6-IE8 */
        url('path/to/font.woff') format('woff'), /*Modern Browsers*/
        url('path/to/font.ttf') format('truetype'), /*Safari, Android, iOS*/
        url('path/to/font.svg#fontName') format('svg'); /*iOS devices*/
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

Now, if you're using more than one style or font family, you need to repeat the whole @font-face declaration block for each font file. This is not very DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself).

Tip

Web fonts are expensive in terms of file size and server requests, so...

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