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"Parametric" is the word not "continuous", as in "parametric design": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_d
by carapace 6y ago
"Parametric" is the word not "continuous", as in "parametric design": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_design
https://www.danieldavis.com/a-history-of-parametric/ https://www.danieldavis.com/a-history-of-parametric/
https://www.danieldavis.com/parametric-typography/ https://www.danieldavis.com/parametric-typography/
- smitty1e 6y ago> The font size on paragraphs is equal to the width of the reader's screen multiplied by 0.01. That's a continuous function. I was wondering how "discretely" to inform him of this.
- wereHamster 6y ago`font-size: 16px` is also a continuous function. I've been using «Continuous Typography» since I started web dev!
- smitty1e 6y agoI'm after the point that continuous==analog, and therefore impossible on a digital system.
- vbernat 6y agoI think the author point is that the different parameters are continuous with respect to the screen width, by opposition of just using media queries to go from 16px to 18px for example. And "continuous" is the right mathematical term for this.
- thorel 6y agoI agree that "continuous" is a poor choice of word. Reading the article, it is clear that the author does not care about continuity in the mathematical sense of the term, but rather about allowing the design parameters to vary as a function of the user's environment parameters. As mentioned in some other comment, a constant function is continuous but is obviously not what the article is about.