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        1. Wow. This is a groundbreaking idea by timbrown! 🤯 “As designers of flexible compositions, we need to understand that there is inherent balance in good-looking typography, and that this balance is disrupted by pressure that results from layout changes.” tbrown.org/notes/2022/05/04/css-forces/
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      1. …in reply to @m_ott
        This is EXACTLY what happens when our fluid layouts start to look ugly. His idea on how to solve it? “To achieve an active balance throughout a composition, we should borrow a concept from fluid dynamics: pressure-gradient forces.”
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    1. …in reply to @m_ott
      Having seen 5t3ph’s brilliant talk about flexible CSS layout with calc(), clamp(), minmax() et al at #btconf (online soon) and considering that container queries are just around the corner, this sounds like something that should be possible to do with CSS one day (soon).
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  1. …in reply to @m_ott
    But it also works as a theoretical concept on its own! Think about it: Which are the variables (font size, weight, line-height, gaps vs vw, vh, vmin, vmax, etc.) that influence at what point the layout constraints put too much pressure on your typographic system?
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    1. …in reply to @m_ott
      And *this* is the stuff people mean when they talk about building with “the grain of the Web”: using the Web’s inherent flexibility as a strength rather than a limitation or even declaring it broken because more appropriate solutions require focus, care, and attention to detail.
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