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For a book about web design, this surely is poorly designed. I can't resize the text with my built-in browser zoom to make it comfortable to read. Everything seems to be based on the size of the browser window.

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There's a PDF available that makes it a little better.

https://resilientwebdesign.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/Resili...

It uses viewports units for type sizing. You can always turn off CSS

> You can always turn off CSS

Yeah but that kinda obliterates the whole point of reading something about good design.

Not trying to troll but good web design is about a lot more than CSS.

I know but I'm not talking about CSS, I'm talking about: try to read your own website before releasing it.

Out of genuine curiosity, why? What happened to using "em" or "rem"?

the site isn't loading so I can't say for sure, but I'd guess the intention is something like fittext.js. which makes sense in some cases for large type inside of hero units etc, but even then you'll want sensible containers, and for body text, this is a terrible idea. em/rem are fine.

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