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CSS

Posted by Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

CSS font sizes

I remember watching one of the videos, either in the CSS section or one of the web design projects, that gave a strategy for choosing font sizes for headers and body text. I couldn't find it in my notes.

It was something along the lines of that the header sizes should be multiples of the body font size. Can anybody help me out here?

Thanks!

4 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

It sounds like you are talking about typographic scale, maybe these resources will point you in the right direction.

Nachiket Kumar
Nachiket Kumar
3,590 Points

To add to James' resources, these might be helpful too:

Nachiket Kumar
Nachiket Kumar
3,590 Points

For some reason I'm not being able to edit my comment, but one more:

Stu Cowley
Stu Cowley
26,287 Points
Stu Cowley
Stu Cowley
26,287 Points

Hey Colin

Maybe have a look in the CSS Foundations Deep Dive under Web Typography.

It may even be the below video

Choosing a Typeface

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

Thanks for this. I did check through those videos earlier and didn't find exactly what I was looking for with the difference between the sizes. I'm still looking though.

I just realized that what I'm looking for might have been in the old CSS videos. They updated CSS Foundations sometime in the last year.

Guil Hernandez
Guil Hernandez
Treehouse Teacher
Guil Hernandez
Guil Hernandez
Treehouse Teacher

Hey Colin Marshall, see James Barnett's comment about the Typographic Scale. I believe that is what you are referring to.

Stu Cowley
Stu Cowley
26,287 Points
Stu Cowley
Stu Cowley
26,287 Points

I reckon I know the ones you're speaking of.

Guil Hernandez may be able to tell. He's pretty good at replying back to Tweets.

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points
Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

Thanks everybody! The Typographic Scale is exactly what I was talking about.

Guil Hernandez was this discussed in one of your CSS videos? (which are awesome btw!)