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Applying and choosing our typographic scale

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Applying and choosing our typographic scale

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In this tutorial we'll put together all the things been talking about in this chapter so far to choose and implement a typographic scale for our sample project. Our sample project is a short one. The story of a dramatic breakfast event shared between Goldilocks and three bears. You've probably heard of it. As a first step, let's pick a scale for this project. The best place to start is, of course, always the content. The main content of this page is the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. To be a bit clever, I think I'm going to look for a scale option that has a prominent multiple of three, or thirds. I think that would make a nice connection to our content that has three bears in it. From some of my initial type explorations, I think that my body text will look best around 16 pixels in size, and I would like my main title to be set much large than my body text. Doing a little bit of designing in the browser and adjusting my CSS, I'm thinking that a size of approximately 66…

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