The typeface of the text is one of the most important elements for all marketing communication materials: brochures, articles on the web, emails, etc. System fonts can only be set as a whole; that is, the font family, size, weight, style, etc. To change the font-size of Material-UI you can provide a fontSize property. Choose…
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CSS is magic,” someone joked to me recently, as I demonstrated the pros and cons of a CSS3 pseudo-selector (specifically :nth-child). They often have little variation between thick and thin strokes, compared to fonts from the ‘serif’ family. Header font size ÷ Body copy font size = 1.96. By using a single CSS rule in a tag or…
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The foundational CSS Fonts provides cross-browser typographical normalization and control while still allowing users to choose and adjust their font size. My interest in design was sparked by animation so I started off doing flash sites, then coding html & css, all the time learning how to use photoshop, illustrator etc. The design of most…
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There is something beyond professional in an ‘Arial’, something beyond elegant in a ‘Monotype Corsiva’ and something beyond fun in a ‘Comic sans’. Grunge fonts are represent a style of dirty, loud and irregular design elements often used to characterize a portion of the 80’s and 90’s disgruntled, rebellious generation. Things once considered unchangeable, such as the underline…
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This one’s for the absolute beginners. Most designers recognize that an even higher value is placed on the use of web safe fonts when developing responsive websites or apps. Type is subjective, and good type in one place may not be good type in another, but if your test was thorough — exhaustive in its…
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