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Direct link to the article It’s all relative.
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It’s all relative.

I remember sitting in the back seat of our family’s Subaru station wagon. I was six and this was long before child carseats were a thing. My dad was at the wheel and my mom played 20 Questions with me …

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Geoff Graham on Dec 18, 2020
Direct link to the article Linearly Scale font-size with CSS clamp() Based on the Viewport
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Linearly Scale font-size with CSS clamp() Based on the Viewport

Responsive typography has been tried in the past with a slew of methods such as media queries and CSS calc().

Here, we’re going to explore a different way to linearly scale text between a set of minimum and maximum …

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Pedro Rodriguez on Sep 25, 2020
Direct link to the article Is it better to use ems/rems than px for font-size?
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Is it better to use ems/rems than px for font-size?

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The answer used to be absolutely yes because, if you used px units, you prevented the text from being resized by the user at all.

But browser zoom is the default method for making everything bigger (including text) these days …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jan 9, 2020
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Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Units

The following is a guest post by Ahmad Shadeed. Ahmad has put together a ton of examples to show off how using relative units can benefit us. I think a lot of us think of units like em as …

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Ahmad Shadeed on Sep 9, 2016
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