Creating true fluid web typography to improve our processes
Responsive web design has been a must-have skill for front-end developers for many years now, but creating a truly fluid interface and giving users a seamless experience across any device still poses a lot of challenges for designers and developers alike. The web is a wonderful medium, buzzing with information and connections. The web is……
A love-hate relationship with Gutenberg
Gutenberg, the shiny new editor in WordPress, gave me thrills when I’d heard about it. But since it reached the WordPress core, and more so, since I started working in-depth with it, I developed a lot of conflicting feelings. From love to hate, back and fourth, it is to this day quite a ride. Getting……
The pursuit of a fellow frontend developer
In the recent couple of years, I’ve noticed quite a strange trend while interviewing candidates for a Frontend position at Pixelgrade. It seemed that instead of paying attention to the company they worked for, its values, its processes, the people they worked with, and especially what they built, they were more interested in what tools……
How WordPress shaped my path as a developer
After six years of crafting WordPress themes within the Pixelgrade crew, I feel the need to share some of the takeaways I gathered during this journey. Today, I’m still excited about what I do as a professional and happy I have the chance to pay it forward. How it all began Here’s the thing —……
Having better control over the way you lay out Typography
This post comes as a follow-up to the article I wrote some time ago about how you can achieve greater control over typography and how to align it to a vertical rhythm. I highly suggest you check that one first as it goes into greater depth and you can get more background information about the issue and……
Aligning type to baseline the right way using Sass
Vertical rhythm is one thing; baseline is another. Typography is an important part of web design nowadays and free services like Google Web Fonts or Adobe’s Typekit make custom fonts on the web a commodity. Let’s take it slow and start with a core principle of typography, vertical rhythm. Vertical rhythm is about spacing body text or,……