A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 302

Authors: R: Richard Rutter

Richard Rutter

Richard Rutter is Production Director at Clearleft, a user experience consultancy based in Brighton, UK. He curates The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web, a practical guide to web typography. Richard blogs on a site called Clagnut.

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How to Size Text in CSS

Issue 249November 20, 2007

It's a tug-of-war as old as web design. Designers need to control text size and the vertical grid; readers need to be able to resize text. A better best practice for sizing type and controlling line-height is needed; and in this article, Richard Rutter obligingly supplies one.