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CSS CSS Foundations Web Typography Responsive Text and Vertical Rhythm: Part 2

Gian Nicola Caggiano
Gian Nicola Caggiano
11,898 Points
Posted by Gian Nicola Caggiano
Gian Nicola Caggiano
11,898 Points

Padding and margin values

Hi! Why you sets the body padding value to 2.95em? (and also the margin-bottom of the headings)

Thanks

2 Answers

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

those were the values (I'm assuming he had determined this ahead of time to save time in the video) needed to align the content with the baselines.

Gian Nicola Caggiano
Gian Nicola Caggiano
11,898 Points
Gian Nicola Caggiano
Gian Nicola Caggiano
11,898 Points

ok, but according to which mathematical formula he added the 2.95em size?

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

since the margin and padding were already in ems, I don't think there's a mathematical formula used. I'm sure it was educatedGuess + trial + error = success . In other words, he probably manually changed the values till he got it right.

However, I will defer to Guil Hernandez for the official answer.