The other day I was explaining to a client how to update her new WordPress site. I showed her how to create a post and she turned to me and asked, “Now how do I make em-dashes?” I hugged her. Like all typography nuts, I firmly believe that the details matter. That proper use of …
While I have always tried to code my websites so that the layouts won’t break when you bump the text size up a few notches, until recently that’s been an exercise that felt somewhat abstract to me. It was something on my checklist, along with good color contrast, alt tags, and all the other things …