Typeset.css
A no-nonsense CSS typography reset for styling user-generated content like blog posts, comments, and forum content.
What this is
Typeset.css is a CSS file (typeset.css
) that includes all the styles you need to ensure content on your site is styled. Styles are only applied to areas that have a parent element with the class typeset
, so it can be target content-specific markup.
And what this is not
Typeset.css is not a CSS framework for styling the layout and design of your website - just specific blocks of content (e.g., blog posts, comments, forum content) that includes paragraphs, lists, code snippets, and so on.
When to use this
Any time you have stripped a browser’s default styles or haven’t specified styles for content elements, use Typeset.css. It’s great for:
- Blog posts
- Articles
- Comments
- Helper text in web apps
- and any other content blocks on a page
Never again add content to your web page just to find that you don’t have a consistent style for it™.
Why this was made
Typeset was originally created for user-generated content on UserVoice feedback forums (here’s an example UserVoice forum), and then expanded to work with content generated by UserVoice-powered knowledge base articles (example article). Because users create these articles using a WYSIWYG editor with HTML-editing capabilities, we needed to make sure we had a base set of styles for any content-related markup.
How to use this
- Download and add the
typeset.css
file to your page. - Add the
typeset
class to the parent element that wraps the content you want styled with Typeset.css.
Example:
<div class="typeset">
<p>Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.</p>
</div>
Also, check out https://joshuarudd.com/typeset.css/ for examples of all the HTML elements styled with Typeset.css.
Added applet tag in the media section
Just as with the embed and object tags I assume you would want to style the applet tag the same. If not only to fully live up to the claim of styling all markup ;-)
It is already present in the meyer reset part.
License
I'd suggest MIT cause it's awesome:
Line heights in em?
I noticed that you are setting line heights in ems. I switched to using unit less line height a while back and like it a lot better. The big advantage is that when you change the font size the line-height will adjust automatically.
2.0
Typeset 2.0 adjusts line-heights of all elements to align on a 1.5em baseline grid. It’s not overly strict, so inline images can push the baseline off a bit, but all text should align nicely.
typeset-baseline
class for debugging the baseline grid