On borrowing Apple's type scale

I’ve updated the typography on this site to use Apple’s macOS and iOS type scales. Interface body text is 13 on the desktop layout and 17 on compact or touch layouts, with titles, captions, and supporting text drawn from the same systems. Article bodies, including Weekly Links, keep the larger 17 equivalent on desktop too. Those numbers might look a little odd if you’re used to keeping everything divisible by four. I’m quite comfortable with that. I wanted a clearer relationship between the different kinds of text on the site, and a spacing grid wasn’t going to decide that for me. What I wanted from the system A personal site has several kinds of reading happening at once. You might be scanning project summaries, finding a link, or settling into an article. Giving all of that the same treatment makes it harder to tell what deserves your attention, but choosing a new size for every component creates a different kind of inconsistency. Apple’s text styles gave me a useful starting point…

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