Drew Ink The year

Fluid type

Type that scales continuously with the viewport between a floor and a ceiling, instead of stepping at breakpoints.

Fluid type: a drawn diagram with the fluid type marked in vermilion.
Fluid type, drawn, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-10.

Near it

BreakpointResponsiveModular scale

What it is made of

clamp(min, preferred, max)a floor, a rate of change, and a ceiling
the floorthe size below which the type must not go, whatever the viewport does
measured on our own site15 clamp() expressions, all 15 of them distinct. Floors run 0.9rem to 3.0rem, ceilings 1.6rem to 8.0rem, and a ceiling is between 1.5 and 2.67 times its own floor, median 1.83measured on ink.css, which is the whole of this site's CSS: one stylesheet, 95 rules, 2 media queries
and the middle term is not always vw7 in vw, 7 in vh, 1 in cqivh scales type to the HEIGHT of the window, which is what a screen meant to be read at arm's length wants and what a scrolling page does not; the one cqi is the single container query on the site