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Type that works on a phone first

Type that works on a phone first

Type that works on a phone first

Why we pick body sizes on a phone in the rain, then scale up.

Design

7 min read

Written by

Tomas Verhagen

Product Design Lead

Published

Screens shrink your good ideas. If your text is comfortable on a small phone in bright light, it will be lovely everywhere else.

Our rules

Body at sixteen pixels or above. Line length under seventy characters. Headlines that break on purpose, never by accident.

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Read your homepage on the bus. If you squint, so will your customers.

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