Typography Quote

index.html

<blockquote>
	<p>Big type, even huge type, can be beautiful and useful. But poise is usually far&nbsp;more important than size – and poise consists primarily of emptiness. Typographically, poise is&nbsp;made of&nbsp;white&nbsp;space.</p>
	
	<footer>Robert Bringhurst</footer>
		
</blockquote>

script.js

//For what it's worth, you can replace the quote with one of your own. As long as each paragraph is marked up properly and the author attribution is in the <footer> element, the quotes will still function the same way!

style.css

body {
	display: flex;
	align-items: center;
	justify-content: space-around;
	height: 100vh;
	font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif;
	background-color: #fff;
	padding: 0 2em;
	box-sizing: border-box;
	margin: 0;
}

blockquote {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	position: relative;
	width: 60%;
	min-width: 400px;
	max-width: 820px;
	font-size: 1.25vw;
	line-height: 1.4;
	text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
	font-smoothing: antialiased;
	-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
	-moz-osx-fon-smoothing: grayscale;
}

blockquote p:first-of-type:before {
	content: '\201c';
	position: absolute;
	left: -.5em;
}

blockquote p:last-of-type:after {
	content: '\201d';
	position: absolute;
}

blockquote footer {
	position: relative;
}

blockquote footer:before {
	content: '–';
	position: absolute;
	left: -.6em;
}

@media screen and (max-width: 1600px) {
	blockquote {
		font-size: 2vw;
	}
}

@media all and (max-width: 1200px) {
	blockquote {
		font-size: 2.5vw;
	}
}

@media all and (max-width: 600px) {
	blockquote {
		font-size: 18px;
	}
	blockquote {
		width: 100%;
		min-width: 100%;
	}
}

typography-quote.markdown

Typography Quote

Just a simple experiment with web typography involving web fonts, flex and newer sizing units. Including punctuation that hangs into the margin! By one of my favorite authors, Robert Bringhurst.

A Pen by Josh Collinsworth on CodePen.

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