Relative Units & Typography
February 13, 2025
Responsive Typography has been around for at least a decade in various forms, but has become even more popular with tools like Utopia.fyi, Fluid.style, Typetura, and more – all relying on the latest CSS units and math functions. But there are still a lot of questions worth asking.
What we cover:
- What do users really want when they change the default browser font size?
- Is it appropriate for padding and margins to grow along with text?
- What all should we be responding to, and can CSS do what’s required?
It’s all very well for our elements to respond in size depending on the size of their containing elements, but what about the size of text?
That’s become increasingly possible with new font size units and functions like min, max and clamp.
In this conversation, Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo, and special guest Alan Stearns discuss all things responsive font sizing.
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