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Every so often, I publish a blog post with a longer title. When this happens, sometimes the post title wraps onto a second line in my list of blog posts on my site home page. This was a tiny detail, but one that I would often notice.Last night, I brought the design to Front End Study Hall, and asked what I could do to make the text better aligned. For context, the following screenshot shows the grid of links on my home page, with one post, the post about an IndieWeb event in the Southeast Asia / Pacific time zone, wrapping 1:ALTA grid with two columns: one with the heading "Explore", the other with the heading "Recent essays". All links except for one, the third link down in the "Recent essays" column, span one line.When a link overflowed to a new line, the text was subtly grouped together, so there was a visual indication that both lines were part of the same text. But, when this happened, the rest of the list would be misaligned with the first list to the left. This was the problem…

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