CSS is a language that is used to provide styling to webpages. It is quite useful in that it separates the presentation or display of content from the content itself. Beyond that description it would be difficult for me to succinctly describe how CSS works. I got into learning about CSS after being exposed to the work of Eric Meyers. Eric was pushing the boundaries of CSS more than a decade ago by creating some very beautiful and intriguing designs all through HTML/XHTML and CSS. But what Mr. DeSandro has done is beyond comprehension – he has created a typeface using CSS. Practical? No. Amazing? Yes. This is like a Rube Goldberg approach to web design.
Curtis is the name I’ve given for a family of geometric sans-serif fonts currently in development. Other incarnations exist as Fontstructions: Curtis Heavy and Curtis Pixel 14. This version takes form in CSS. All shapes are rendered by the browser, using a combination of background color, border width, border radius, and a heavily reliance on absolute/relative positioning….
The Curtis CSS font wasn’t conceived of any practical application. I was more interested in seeing if it could be pulled off, and if so, what the final result would look like. This typeface was used in the article, Why Art?. Remarkably, Wagner Paula was able to build upon the framework I started in his Liveposter.
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