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Dev tools · July 26, 2020

Typeculator

A different approach to generating type scales

Typeculator launched on July 26, 2020 with 118 votes, #305 of 4,305 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

A type scale generator based on an alternative approach to the popular modular or line-height based scales. The approach is called "Golden thread" — as named by Lahel Babos, the author of the article ( https://bit.ly/2ZNWTS0 ) that inspired this tool.

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