What is Typesmith

Typesmith is a typography library designed for the responsive web. It provides a set of type sizes defined in px to better align with your design tools (Figma, Sketc, etc.).

The type sizes names come from traditional English speaking world:

• Canon 32/36
• Double Pica 28/32
• Paragon 26/28
• Columbian 24
• Primer 20
• English 18
• Pica 16
• Brevier 14
• Minion 12

It uses a custom Type Scale starting from the Major Second scale (1.125) rounding up numbers to work well with a 4px baseline.

Canon, Double Pica and Paragon have responsive sizes only.

This is because only the first three sizes used for headlines need to change.

A demo of the "baseline version" is available on CodePen

Installation

Install via NPM

npm i --save typesmith-lib`

Import Typesmith in your project:

// style.scss
@import 'node_modules/typesmith-lib/_typesmith-lib';

Usage

You can use typesmith in two different ways:

1. Using @type-size mixin in a selector:

     .foo {
       @mixin type-size(canon, medium, ratio)
     }

2. Use default typesmith classes in HTML:

   <h1 class="type-canon">This is a Headline</h1>

Customizations

1. Vertical Rhythm

There are two option for vertical rhythm:

• baseline - 4px
• ratio - 1.25

You can customize the vertical rhythm setting your own custom properties:

@import '_typesmith.scss'

:root {
  --baseline: foo; /* Use size values in px or rem */
  --ratio: bar; /* Use a number value, like 1 or 1.5 */
}

2. Breakpoints

You can control the media-query for three type sizes: Canon, Double Pica, Paragon.

Set the $bp variable before the @import statement like following:

// Accepted values: small, medium , large, xlarge

$bp: large;

@import '../_typesmith-lib.scss';

See typesmit.scss file as example.

Breakpoints values are defined in mq.

Dependencies

I order to use the libary you will need following tools:

• mq

Author

Francesco Improta

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) [2020] [Francesco Improta]

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