FVSCL

An experiment in harmonious Fluid Visual Scaling for typography a Component Library using CSS Variables and Svelte.

This screen is 1440px wide so the base size for FVSCL is 22px.  Resize your browser or hit fiddle to see what happens when scales are adjusted →

Current Scale: 1.332

12.37px
16.5px
22px
29.31px
39.07px
52.09px
69.45px
92.57px

Demos

Adjust the sliders to see how the demos work at different screen widths. They're all iframes so depending on factors your computer may or may not 💥.
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Slack
100 %

Slack reskinned using various fvscl components.

Overridden CSS variables:

:root {
  --min-size: 14; 
  --max-size: 18; 
  --min-ratio: 1.1;
  --max-ratio: 1.4;
}

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Gitlab
100 %

Google Forms reskinned using various fvscl components.

Overridden CSS variables:

:root {
  --min-size: 14;
  --max-size: 20;
  --min-width: 720;
  --min-ratio: 1.1;
  --max-ratio: 1.2;
}

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Google
100 %

Google Forms reskinned using various fvscl components.

Overridden CSS variables:

:root {
  --min-size: 14;
  --max-size: 16;
  --min-ratio: 1.2;
  --max-ratio: 1.3;
  --color-light: white;
}
body {
  --color-dark: #3c4043;
  --color-primary: #1a73e8;
}

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Jekyll (& Hyde)
100 %

Using Gutenberg as a source an entire book has been "typeset" using fvscl components.

Overridden CSS variables:

:root {
  --font-family-base: serif;
  --min-size: 16;
  --max-size: 24;
  --min-ratio: 1.1;
  --max-ratio: 1.414;
}

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Forms
100 %

Google Forms reskinned using various fvscl components.

Overridden CSS variables:

:root {
  --min-size: 14;
  --max-size: 22;
  --min-ratio: 1.1;
  --max-ratio: 1.234;
}

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Typography

h1 currently has a font-size of 92.59px

h2 currently has a font-size of 69.46px

h3 currently has a font-size of 52.10px

h4 currently has a font-size of 39.09px

h5 currently has a font-size of 29.32px
h6 currently has a font-size of 22px

Text

Base

The font-size of body text is 22px.

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Sm

The font-size of sm text is 16.50px.

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Xs

The font-size of xs text is 12.38px.

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Buttons

Font Size
16.50px 22px 29.32px 39.09px
Line Height
18.15px 24.2px 32.25px 43.00px
↔ Padding
22px 29.32px 39.09px 52.10px
↕ Padding
16.50px 22px 29.32px 39.09px
16 px
Base size on small viewports
1.125
Ratio between steps for small viewports
22 px
Base size on larger viewports
1.333
Ratio between steps for larger viewports