I came across a fairly old article on Web typography (by Eric Meyer) this morning that I found pretty interesting and thought I would share some of my feelings on the subject matter.
Up to this point I’ve been doing things completely different. To ensure consistency through the layout, I set a base font size of [...]

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• Tags: Eric Meyer, font-size, line-height, pixels, unitless, units

On an almost daily basis, there are web articles I come across that contain great tips or something I didn’t know that I’d like to read more on. Given the fact that I usually don’t have the time at that exact moment, I normally print out the article. That’s when all the trouble starts. You [...]

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• Tags: printer, printer-friendly, printing

If you’re like me, then you are probably sick of being forced to use background images for headers that use a non-generic font. How much time is wasted in slicing these images, let alone all the extra rules that need to be created for them in the style sheet.
There are a few options out there, [...]

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• Tags: @font-face, CSS3, EOT, FontForge, fonts, OTF, TTF, WEFT

The thought occurred to me this morning, as I did my daily routine of reading through my long list of RSS feeds, that I was in danger of falling behind and becoming out of touch with the current trends and standards in the world of CSS. Yes, that previous statement does sound pretty geeky, to [...]

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• Tags: CSS-based layout, CSS2, CSS2.1, CSS3, disease, falling behind, IE6, standards

This is a follow-up to an article published today by Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks.
If you haven’t read the article already, I encourage you to do so first before implementing my proposed tweaks in the following post.
To recap, a nifty technique, using CSS sprites, was implemented for displaying the current date of a particular blog [...]

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• Tags: CSS sprite, date, dynamic positioning, WordPress