TLDR Design · MISCELLANEOUS

REIMAGINING FLUID TYPOGRAPHY

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Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Fluid typography should respect user preferences without relying on fixed assumptions. Using em and rem maintains internal harmony, but viewport-relative units introduce scaling issues. Browser defaults often differ, making pixel-based conversions unreliable. The best approach is to avoid setting a root font size, allowing user-defined preferences to control text scaling naturally.