Reading Time: 3 minutes So a good while back I released this CSS utility / NPM Package called typography-baseline. It was a handy way to kickstart complex web projects because it set base typographic styles. Then I needed something for tables. And then I needed something for forms, too. So, well, you guessed it. Now there are three baselines.

Reading Time: 3 minutes So a while back I released this CSS tool / NPM Package called typography-baseline.css. It was a pretty handy way to kickstart projects because it set some baseline styles to all my typography. More recently, I’ve come into some situations where I thought, “gee, it’d be nice if I had some starter for tables, too.”

Reading Time: 2 minutes A good long time ago I was on a project where things had gotten off to a rocky start. We’d ended up with a fairly massive stylesheet that, amongst other problems, never set base styles on the “typographical” elements like <h1> or <blockquote>. So my task was to add baseline typographical styles. A subtask of

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m in a CSS mailing list and this morning, Vince over at Ghodmode Development shared a fun little experiment showing that an em isn’t an “m” in CSS. I, along with others, more or less responded with “d’uh”. We’ve seen this phenomenon for years and didn’t totally understand the purpose. In fact, I attempted to