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James Barnett
39,199 PointsLined Paper - a Micro Typography Framework
So I got bored today and made this it's pure CSS and works in all major browsers including IE10+. For all your typography baseline grid needs.
http://codepen.io/barnettjw/full/JhkrL
Let me know what you think.
5 Answers
Alan Johnson
7,625 PointsThat's pretty awesome, James! I did notice that the text was crossing paper lines in the block quote section. Is that because of a browser inconsistency?
Ryan Carson
23,286 PointsLike it - nice work!
John Harrington
1,372 PointsIt's the difference in font size that's causing the text to go off the lines, notice the Subhead pushes it off a little too! Forked it and fixed, now uses 1.5em as the distance between lines, and multiples of 1.5em as line-height on all the elements :) http://codepen.io/John92/full/mswAg
Great work James! Brilliant idea :D
James Barnett
39,199 Points@John I think that did it, thanks!
James Barnett
39,199 PointsYou can also use the same technique to compare typefaces.
I often find myself trying to tell the difference between 2 sans-serif typefaces.
So I made this version to be able to better see ascenders, descenders and other microtypography goodness.