Interactive Fluid Typography
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- #Fluid Typography
- #Responsive Design
- #CSS
- Fluid typography in CSS allows type size and leading to adapt smoothly to screen size changes, avoiding abrupt breakpoints.
- Basic fluid typography involves calculating a ratio between screen size (100vw) and a base size, but requires unitless numbers for operations.
- The clamp() function in CSS enables setting minimum and maximum font sizes with fluid scaling in between, offering a more elegant solution than media queries.
- Andy Bell's method introduces generating a typographic scale with varying ratios for different screen sizes, using tools like Utopia for fluid values.
- CSS Typed Arithmetic in Chrome 140 allows dynamic adjustment of typographic ratios based on screen width, enhancing prototyping flexibility.
- Future CSS functions may simplify creating fluid sizes with mathematical operations, enabling more dynamic design systems.
- Current support for advanced fluid typography techniques is limited to Chrome, with fallbacks recommended for broader compatibility.