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Reimagining Fluid Typography
Are we responding to the right inputs?
Recently, ‘fluid typography’ has pushed us to incorporate viewport or container relative units into our font sizing as well – generally with a clamp() function to integrate both em/ rem and vi/ cqi inputs in a responsive algorithm with lower and upper boundaries. Similarly, the common default 16px font size feels fine to me on a phone, with limited line length, but it’s smaller than I want when I have 20 inches to fill. We design layouts that respond smoothly from the smallest screen to the largest – it seems absurd to keep the base font size locked in place through that entire responsive process.
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