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Blueprint CSS & Wordpress
Written By Cappuccino on Aug. 18, 2007.
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I'm very interested in the Blueprint CSS's typographic abilities, I would love to be able to have nice looking justified paragraphs.
Has anyone incorporated Blueprint into their theme, and if so, how difficult was it, and could you point me in the right direction. Thanks!
Ozone42
Written Aug. 18, 2007 / Report /
I'm about to do a new theme based off of blueprint. Haven't started yet... think I'll do that now.
anadgouda
Written Aug. 19, 2007 / Report /
I am sure there will be WordPress themes which use Blueprint. For using Blueprint with a WordPress theme, you will have to use its CSS class names and IDs in your templates. Otherwise it is like writing any another WordPress theme.
Ozone42
Written Aug. 24, 2007 / Report /
I'm now using blueprint
Cappuccino
Written Aug. 24, 2007 / Report /
Awesome Ozone42!! Care to share a how-to regarding blueprint typography? Please :=)
jpsowin
Written Sep. 5, 2007 / Report /
I just released a new Wordpress theme that is based on Blueprint.
I've had a great experience with Blueprint so far. Needs a little tweaking, but for a pre-1.0 release I think it is great!
Ozone42
Written Jan. 30, 2008 / Report /
I threw blueprint away for my latest design.
The aligned grid is kind of nice, but not very crucial. It did open my eyes to resets and better typography though!
Mike
Written Jan. 30, 2008 / Report /
If you're thinking about justified text keep this in mind for readability concerns.
RightOn
Written Jan. 30, 2008 / Report /
Unless you're doing loads of copy in tight columns I'd honestly back off of Justified type... I can't STAND the rivers and valleys you get from it.
Ozone42
Written Jan. 30, 2008 / Report /
If you like justified text, just increase your line-height to avoid rivers and valleys.
You get rivers and valleys in non-justified text as well, it just doesn't stand out so much since you've got one side ragged.
RightOn
Written Jan. 30, 2008 / Report /
I had a professor in college that would rip up your comps if you justified without a rational reason.
chaoskaizer
Written Feb. 1, 2008 / Report /
you can try adding a justify css class inside your blueprint
p.justify { text-align: justify !important; font-size:inherit;}html
<p class="justify">Lorem ipsum dolor</p>Anyway I have a blueprint theme for wordpress http://theme.istalker.net Its a WIP projects. I need beta tester. Check out the live wordpress demo at Kakkoi. I also embed the theme with microformat ( hAtom Feed, xFolk, hReview) and some web++ (foaf,rdf data) friendly code. Let me know if anyone interested for beta test.