and what they mean on the web — As a typography newbie, I’m often struggling to translate the lessons long ago learned about type design in print to my own field, web design. This is my attempt to share what I’ve figured out so far. All these guidelines come from the excellent book: The Elements of Typographic Style…

For those unaware, Github.com offers the ability the host a site based on a repo. You can create a gh-pages branch on your repo that will get transformed via Jekyll and served, free of charge. I got pretty excited about it when I found out, since I was having issues…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tarale/ I’m a front-end developer. Why should I want to devote time and energy to the study of typography? Well, to best answer that question, you need to have an understanding of what typography is. Typography is the stylistic component to the written word. In our modern use of it…

and then doing them in Susy — I had a hard time figuring out how to setup a responsive layout with breakpoints using Susy, so I figured I’d share what I’ve figured out so far. When we want to make a mobile-first, responsive layout, we need to be able to react to the width of the screen…