Comments on: Em Typography http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/em-typography Austin web designer - Adam Freetly Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:47:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Scott http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/em-typography/comment-page-1#comment-12582 Scott Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:43:27 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/em-typography#comment-12582 If you set the body's font size in a <code>%</code> and everything else—including layout widths, margins, padding, etc.— in ems, it becomes this perfectly elastic theme. It's much fun. If you set the body’s font size in a % and everything else—including layout widths, margins, padding, etc.— in ems, it becomes this perfectly elastic theme. It’s much fun.

]]> By: adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/em-typography/comment-page-1#comment-12581 adam Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:10:56 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/em-typography#comment-12581 hear hear! sizing in px is really bad. i was just looking at spartan, and saw that you're using % on the body there as well. hear hear!

sizing in px is really bad. i was just looking at spartan, and saw that you’re using % on the body there as well.

]]> By: Scott http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/em-typography/comment-page-1#comment-12580 Scott Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:04:41 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/em-typography#comment-12580 Long live the <code>em</code>! Long live the em!

]]> By: adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/em-typography/comment-page-1#comment-12579 adam Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:16:38 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/em-typography#comment-12579 posting really special characters like ⅝ is really a pain when the rich text editor double encodes your ampersands. <strong>UPDATE:</strong> it's easier now <a href="http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/02/17/math-for-the-masses/" rel="nofollow">with latex</a>: $latex \frac{5}{8}$ posting really special characters like ⅝ is really a pain when the rich text editor double encodes your ampersands.
UPDATE: it’s easier now with latex: \frac{5}{8}

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