Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid

We web designers get excited about the littlest things. Our friends in the print world must get a kick out of watching us talk about finally being able to achieve layouts on the web that they’ve taken for granted for years. Let’s face it: it’s easier these days to embed a video on the web than it is to set type consistently or align elements to a universal grid. But we’re scrappy folks, web designers. We don’t give up easy. In the long slow battle with browser support and platform inconsistencies, we’ve been able to bring more and more sophisticated print techniques onto the web—sometimes kicking and screaming. We have the technology#section1 Over the last year or so, there’s been a lot of talk about grid systems and using column grids for website layouts. We can apply the same principles of proportion and balance to the type within those columns by borrowing another technique from our print brethren: the baseline grid. In print, it’s not that hard. Firing up the grid#section2

A Closer Look At the Blueprint CSS Framework Blueprint is a CSS framework that can save you time and headaches when working on any project that involves HTML and CSS, whether it be with Rails, PHP, or just laying out an HTML page. In this tutorial you will get a look at the inner workings of Blueprint and we'll take a look at demo application that uses Blueprint to get a better idea of how to use actually use the framework. 1. What is Blueprint CSS? If you are like me, as in more of a developer than a designer, then you are familiar with the process of starting a new project and not knowing what to do with your CSS. Now, even if you are a rockstar designer who already has all this CSS stuff figured out, or if you aren't worried about how your layout will change over time because you are working from a PSD template or something, that doesn't mean that there is nothing to learn here. Spend your time innovating, not replicating. 2. reset.css This file sets sensible defaults across all browsers. No. 3. 4. The head of the document 5.

The relevance of the baseline grid Posted on 24 August 2011 • 17 comments In the talk I’ve been giving at conferences this year, With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, there’s a section where I mention baseline grids; specifically, what I’ve learned from doing a large-scale print project like 8 Faces. However, until now, I haven’t really covered the subject on this blog. This morning I was interviewed about typography for an upcoming issue of Computer Arts and I prepared some screenshots for them. Some context I’d never really done print projects that were that big prior to 8 Faces, so I was — shamefully — a little lazy when it came to setting up and following baseline grids. Because of that, one of the original aims of 8 Faces was to give myself a much-needed kick up the bum, and I’m happy to say that it served that purpose remarkably well. The example To actually see what I’m talking about, here’s a page from the latest issue of the magazine. The lesson So I can line things up. © 2005 – 2014 Elliot Jay Stocks.

Free 960.GS CSS Photography Template and Tutorial Love it or hate it, the 960.gs makes for some incredibly fast prototyping. By utilizing preset classes you can accomplish fairly complex layouts with little to no effort. Today we bring you a free single-page template, fully coded using the 960.gs. The template has a few nifty CSS3 effects and uses @font-face to implement some beautiful custom typography. You can download the template completely free of charge and use it however you like with zero attribution. Download the Template Here’s a quick preview of what the template looks like: Download the 960.GS Resources The first thing you’ll want to do is head over to the 960 Grid System website and click the download button at the top left of the page. The download has a ton of stuff in it but really all we need is three CSS files: reset.css, text.css, and 960.css. The tutorial below will assume that you are fairly familiar with both CSS and 960.gs. Step 1: Start Your HTML and CSS Files Paste the following code into your HTML to get started:

Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques Advertisement The Web is 95% typography1, or so they say. I think this is a pretty accurate statement: we visit websites largely with the intention of reading. That’s what you’re doing now — reading. With this in mind, does it not stand to reason that your typography should be one of the most considered aspects of your designs? Unfortunately, for every person who is obsessed with even the tiniest details of typography, a dozen or so people seem to be indifferent. Creative and Technical Typography I’m not sure these two categories are recognized in the industry but, in my mind, the two main types of typography are creative and technical. Creative typography involves making design decisions such as which face to use, what mood the type should create, how it should be set, what tone it should have — for example, should it be airy, spacious and open (light) or condensed, bold and tight, with less white space (dark)? We’ll focus on technical type in this article. We’ll learn about: <! Beware! <!

Bootstrap 3.3.0 released 29 Oct 2014 Bootstrap 3.3.0 is here! This release has been all about bug fixes, accessibility improvements, and documentation updates. We’ve had over 700 commits from 28 contributors since our last release. Woohoo! Here are some of the highlights: Added a handful of new Less variables for easier customization. For a complete breakdown, read the release changelog or the v3.3.0 milestone. Download Bootstrap Download the latest release—source code, compiled assets, and documentation—as a zip file directly from GitHub: Download Bootstrap 3.3.0 Hit the project repository or Sass repository for more options. An update for the Bootstrap CDN will be available shortly. New tools Since our last release, we’ve open sourced two new tools: Bootlint, a custom linter for all your Bootstrap projects. They join LMVTFY, our bot for quickly validating HTML in live examples. Onward to Bootstrap 4 Perhaps the best part of releasing v3.3.0 today is that we can start to tell you more about Bootstrap 4! @mdo & team

CSS Baseline: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Advertisement Vertical rhythm is clearly an important part of Web design, yet on the subject of baseline, our community seems divided and there is no consensus as to how it fits in — if at all — with our growing and evolving toolkit for designing online. This may be due to a lack of understanding and appreciation of the benefits that follow from a baseline grid, but it is more likely because baseline is notoriously difficult to get right, and no one yet holds the blueprint to its successful implementation. Some even argue baseline is redundant online, as typographic terminology and behavior on the Web follow different rules than those used in print, the frustrating discrepancy between line-height and leading being the most obvious example. For now, however, let’s assume baseline is, to some degree at least, a useful tool for Web designers. Vertical Rhythm And Pattern Recognition Grids are not only helpful on the horizontal axis, but also on the vertical axis. The Trouble With line-height (cp)

WOW Slider : jQuery Image Slider & Gallery Creating Stylish Responsive Form With CSS3 and HTML5 #buttons #submitbtn { display: block; float: left; height: 3em; padding: 0 1em; border: 1px solid; outline: 0; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.3em; color: #fff; text-shadow: 0px 1px 0px #222; white-space: nowrap; word-wrap: normal; vertical-align: middle; cursor: pointer; -moz-border-radius: 2px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; border-color: #5e890a #5e890a #000; -moz-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(256,256,256, .35); -ms-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(256,256,256, .35); -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(256,256,256, .35); box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(256,256,256, .35); background-color: rgb(226,238,175); background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgb(226,238,175) 3%, rgb(188,216,77) 3%, rgb(144,176,38) 100%); background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(3%,rgb(226,238,175)), color-stop(3%,rgb(188,216,77)), color-stop(100%,rgb(144,176,38))); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgb(226,238,175) 3%,rgb(188,216,77) 3%,rgb(144,176,38) 100%);

Border-radius: create rounded corners with CSS! Home / CSS3 Previews / Border-radius: create rounded corners with CSS! The CSS3 border-radius property allows web developers to easily utilise rounder corners in their design elements, without the need for corner images or the use of multiple div tags, and is perhaps one of the most talked about aspects of CSS3. Since first being announced in 2005 the boder-radius property has come to enjoy widespread browser support (although with some discrepancies) and, with relative ease of use, web developers have been quick to make the most of this emerging technology. Here’s a basic example: This box should have a rounded corners for Firefox, Safari/Chrome, Opera and IE9. The code for this example is, in theory, quite simple: However, for the moment, you’ll also need to use the -moz- prefix to support Firefox (see the browser support section of this article for further details): How it Works border-bottom-left-radius, border-bottom-right-radius, border-top-left-radius, border-top-right-radius The Syntax: