Unit deconverter - make your units less useful!
Take a perfectly useful standardised measurement of length, weight, speed or time, and convert to something far less useful (but much more fun).
Link tags: units
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Fractional. — Ethan Marcotte
Ethan’s ode to the fr unit in CSS grid.
The Unexpected Power of Viewport Units in CSS | Lullabot
A nice rundown of some of the fun you can have with viewport units.
I’m very glad the problems with vh units I wrote about a little while back is getting fixed in Chrome for mobile.
Get the Balance Right: Responsive Display Text ◆ 24 ways
Some really great CSS tips from Rich on sizing display text for multiple viewports.
Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Units | CSS-Tricks
A thorough and compelling demonstration of why it makes sense to size all the properties of your components—font size, margins, borders, etc.—in ems or rems rather than mixing in pixels for some properties. It’s all about the scalability, innit?