This page is both an essay and a tool. It sets out to explore how two, intertwined concepts, often playful but sometimes cheeky, can be encouraged to dance in web pages. Drag the colored boxes along the scale to throw these words anew. For the most part, this text is just a libretto for the performance you are about to play upon it.
Don’t compose without a scale.
These words were written not in reference to choosing notes of music, but rather, to selecting a harmonious series of type sizes. In The Elements of Typographic Style, author Robert Bringhurst includes this principle as one of the old, well-traveled roads at the core of the tradition.