typebase.css aims to provide a minimal CSS typography boiler plate. Most css frameworks fail web typography in one of a few ways:
- They contain built-in aesthetics
- Inconsistant vertical rhythm across major elements
- Hard to decouple from the rest of the framework
Both force designers & developers to do extra work to realize their design. Let typebase.css handle the vertical rhythm and spacing, you handle the typefaces and design.
The most important thing that typebase.css gives you is an enforced vertical rythm across all most screens (working on mobile). The insures that text across columns and long copy doesn't become uneven.
Like normalize.css typebase.css is built to be edited. You'll find comments throughout the source marking points left for intentional editing. You should subsitute your own typefaces in. Don't like how the headings scale? Change it!
This project is meant to be a converstaion about good typography. I learn design from other designers. Gimme yo' pull requests.