The New CSS Layout

Foreword

Graphic design on the web has evolved significantly over the past twenty-five years. At first, screen pixels were huge. Now they’re so tiny we can’t see them. We started with a palette of 216 colors, (if we had color at all); now we play in color spaces far beyond what’s possible in any other medium. For years, typography was limited to a handful of typefaces. These days, we have more font options than metal typesetters would have dared to dream of. Layout, however, has barely evolved since the advent of CSS. Fifteen years ago, we created a layout for blog articles, taught it to each other, and pretty much stopped there. Frameworks like Bootstrap have given us a few more options but, even with responsive web design, we’ve been severely ...