Creating true fluid web typography to improve our processes

Responsive web design has been a must-have skill for front-end developers for many years now, but creating a truly fluid interface and giving users a seamless experience across any device still poses a lot of challenges for designers and developers alike.

We, and seemingly everyone else, were stuck in the same old mindset: designers defined font sizes at every breakpoint for every element on the page and developers just had to make it happen.

A brief history

Over the years, the web design community came up with various patterns for solving different layout or UX challenges on small screens and there are a plethora of available resources online to help you decide which route to take for your specific use-case.

The choice is never simple since you are constantly assessing the attractive, easy way (like using the hamburger icon to toggle navigation on small screens) and a more creative solution that’ll hopefully be better suited to the current problem-domain.

We found a solution that fits our needs

Everything came through quite nicely and the final result exceeded all my expectations . The proof of concept I was looking for coalesced into as a very solid solution. So solid in fact that I was confident enough to use it in our latest WordPress theme, Rosa 2 .

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