https://www.ianrose.me/ Ian Rose is a designer living & working in San Francisco. en Using the Metalsmith FileData plugin to create critical styles from compiled Sass. Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:00:00 GMT https://www.ianrose.me/articles/metalsmith-sass-critical-styles/ https://www.ianrose.me/articles/metalsmith-sass-critical-styles/ An analysis of the measure of body text across some top news websites. Mon, 14 Nov 2016 13:00:00 GMT https://www.ianrose.me/articles/line-length-on-news-websites/ https://www.ianrose.me/articles/line-length-on-news-websites/ Provide the user with previous and next page navigation in a Harp.js site using Embeded JavaScript. Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:00:00 GMT https://www.ianrose.me/articles/harp-js-previous-and-next-using-ejs/ https://www.ianrose.me/articles/harp-js-previous-and-next-using-ejs/ The CSS text rendering property is a mixed bag. On initial pass it seems to be an obvious choice for improving type on the web. Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:00:00 GMT https://www.ianrose.me/articles/the-too-good-to-be-true-css-text-rendering-property/ https://www.ianrose.me/articles/the-too-good-to-be-true-css-text-rendering-property/ While building with Hexo I came across a need to get all the posts by a specific category and render them through a specific partial. Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:00:00 GMT https://www.ianrose.me/articles/getting-posts-by-category-with-hexo/ https://www.ianrose.me/articles/getting-posts-by-category-with-hexo/ At work I’ve been cranking on a prototype. I decided to give a Typesettings a go in more of a production setting that required designing in the browser. Thu, 01 May 2014 13:00:00 GMT https://www.ianrose.me/articles/organizing-styles-when-using-typesettings/ https://www.ianrose.me/articles/organizing-styles-when-using-typesettings/ How to get a GitHub hosted project site to 301 redirect to a custom domain name using CloudFlare. Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:00:00 GMT https://www.ianrose.me/articles/permanent-redirect-github-project-page/ https://www.ianrose.me/articles/permanent-redirect-github-project-page/ Setting type using modular scale and maintaining vertical rhythm is not a new topic. There are so many great tools and articles out there that help designers do these things. However I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for. Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:00:00 GMT https://www.ianrose.me/articles/sass-type-toolkit-typesettings/ https://www.ianrose.me/articles/sass-type-toolkit-typesettings/