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Magazine styles in CSS

4th October 2003

Mimicking Magazines (via techno weenie) is a nice set of CSS styled paragraphs inspired by the design of Cosmopolitan. They resize well thanks to intelligent use of ems for sizing instead of pixels.

Posted 4th October 2003 at 11:38 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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