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0 pointsdeltron30306y ago0 comments

That's the designers fault then. Most alignment issues are caused by fonts and their bounding boxes that are based on line height (fonts have a default line height they ship with). One of the errors I often see is that designers define font sizes based on the letter sizes, not based on their bounding boxes or how well they fit into the bounding boxes that should match the defined component sizes within their design system. Design systems have spacing scales, and fonts (and their bounding boxes) should be part of it.

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mattacular6y ago

I wish you lots of luck in finding these mythical designers out there to work with throughout your entire web development career. You can spend plenty of time thinking of how things ought to be but the flexibility of CSS and HTML will always be utilized in real world applications where it's practical. Asking for a few more iterations from the design team to make their concepts fit your teams existing set of baked utility classes or even their own style guide (issued more than a few months ago) instead of simply writing a few more lines of CSS is not a good trade off in the eyes of most everybody including many developers.

harimau7776y ago

Is that really the case though? With flex box and grids it seems like it should be as simple as making sure that your design is based on proportions instead of static values (e.g. "evenly space the three columns across 80% of the page" instead of "Make three columns separated by 10pt with 30 pt before the first column and after the last").

It also seems like it's a whole lot easier to make changes to a wireframe than to fight with CSS rules.

mattacular6y ago

It's been the case in my experience working with designers who themselves work with product owners. When there is a business urgency around a new feature or design then pushback from the dev team because they dont want to modify CSS or write an ad hoc class isn't likely to be successful.

deltron3030OP6y ago

The design team is responsible for the baked in utility classes in that case, therefore I don't really understand your point.

mattacular6y ago

My point is design teams that do CSS are rare. I've actually never heard of this unless it's a designer who is now working as a developer, on a development teams.

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harimau7776y ago

It also seems like it's a whole lot easier to make changes to a wireframe than to fight with CSS rules.

mattacular6y ago

deltron3030OP6y ago

The design team is responsible for the baked in utility classes in that case, therefore I don't really understand your point.

mattacular6y ago

My point is design teams that do CSS are rare. I've actually never heard of this unless it's a designer who is now working as a developer, on a development teams.

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