Earlier this week, we had a chance to speak with Stéphane Curzi, developer of the recently released Baseline, a CSS framework built around the idea of a real baseline grid for the web.
Refresh Events: Hi Stéphane, thanks for sitting down with us, and congratulations on the launch of Baseline! Tell us a bit more about it.
Stéphane Curzi: Baseline has had a long gestation, almost a year since I first started to think about it. At first all I wanted was a quick way to build a website prototype; a reset and base typography with a simple column was all I needed. I did the first version of Baseline that was called Boxes at the time and did some production work with it. About the same time I got a renewed interested in typography on the web, more people were taking an interest in typography on the web so I thought that I could adapt my framework with some typography goodness. The more I read, the more I realized that I needed to go back to what designers used to work with. Having studied graphic design almost 20 years ago, I needed a little refresh so I re-read about classic grid designer like: Josef Müller-Brokmann, Massimo Vignel and anything I could get my hands on.
Baseline came out of this research, a way to bridge the gap between what I use to do in print work and what I’ve done on the web.
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