Nail vertical rhythm, modular scale, and REMs like a boss with this simple set of SASS/SCSS variables, functions and mixins.
Nail vertical rhythm, modular scale, and REMs like a boss with this simple set of SASS/SCSS variables, functions and mixins.
NB: early release, will finish testing the first version of this in the next day or so.
Of course, first make sure you have SASS installed.
then install with bower :
$ bower install knife
or : Download and simply include the knife.sass file in your sass directory and place the following at the top of your main sass / scss stylesheet to import it.
@import 'knife';
Note that this tool is heavily inspired by the fantatstic web app Grid Lover and its absolutely one of the eaiest ways to sort out these initial variables.
Set your basic variables
// Basic Type Variabless
$body-font-size: 16px;
$body-line-height: 1.5;
$scale-factor: 1.333;
$ie8compatability: true;
Set Your base font size on the html ans body
html { @include khtml(); }
body { @include kbody(); }
This can be done in your base or normalization files, or later on before you define youe type. You should be defining your typography straight after your normalize / reset.
Set up your Typography
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {text-transform: uppercase;}
h1 { @include ktype(5, 1, 1); }
h2 { @include ktype(4, 1, 1); }
h3 { @include ktype(3, 1, 1); }
h4 { @include ktype(2, 1, 1); }
h5 { @include ktype(1, 1, 0); }
h6 {
@include ktype(0, 1, 0);
font-weight: normal;
text-transform: capitalize;
}
p, ul, ol {@include ktype(0,0,1);}
small { @include ktype(-1,0,1); }
Use the krem() mixin to set any other value in rems, because no one really spends their life thinking in relative units of measure.
@include krem("height", 160px);
note the bloat added by the IE compatability, obviously setting that to false will result in halving the output. Have a look at the basic demo in the example folder for more information.
/* Type Setup */
html {
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 24px; }
body {
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 24px;
font-size: 1rem;
line-height: 1.5rem; }
/* Typography */
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
text-transform: uppercase; }
h1 {
font-size: 68px;
font-size: 4.25rem;
line-height: 72px;
line-height: 4.5rem;
margin-top: 48px;
margin-top: 3rem;
margin-bottom: 24px;
margin-bottom: 1.5rem; }
h2 {
font-size: 51px;
font-size: 3.1875rem;
line-height: 72px;
line-height: 4.5rem;
margin-top: 24px;
margin-top: 1.5rem;
margin-bottom: 24px;
margin-bottom: 1.5rem; }
h3 {
font-size: 38px;
font-size: 2.375rem;
line-height: 48px;
line-height: 3rem;
margin-top: 24px;
margin-top: 1.5rem;
margin-bottom: 24px;
margin-bottom: 1.5rem; }
h4 {
font-size: 29px;
font-size: 1.8125rem;
line-height: 48px;
line-height: 3rem;
margin-top: 24px;
margin-top: 1.5rem;
margin-bottom: 24px;
margin-bottom: 1.5rem; }
h5 {
font-size: 22px;
font-size: 1.375rem;
line-height: 24px;
line-height: 1.5rem;
margin-top: 24px;
margin-top: 1.5rem;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0rem; }
h6 {
font-size: 16px;
font-size: 1rem;
line-height: 24px;
line-height: 1.5rem;
margin-top: 24px;
margin-top: 1.5rem;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0rem;
text-transform: capitalize; }
p, ul, ol, dl {
font-size: 16px;
font-size: 1rem;
line-height: 24px;
line-height: 1.5rem;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-top: 0rem;
margin-bottom: 24px;
margin-bottom: 1.5rem; }
small {
display: inline-block;
font-size: 13px;
font-size: 0.8125rem;
line-height: 24px;
line-height: 1.5rem;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-top: 0rem;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0rem; }
Coming Soon.
heavily inspired by the awesome web app Grid Lover and sevenupcan's sass gridlover mixin. I've been further pushed to develop this little SASS tool to help "onboard" team members with typographic layout principals, using REM units, speeding up starting dev time on projects and make something without a steep learning curve. I hope you find it useful too.
MIT Licensed , Paul van Zyl 2014