Challenge: Heading Keyline

Keylines are a great traditional graphic design trick to frame a heading. Historically, they’ve been a bit fiddly on the web, so for this challenge, we’re going to try to change that.

What you’re buildingpermalink

The briefpermalink

Take the design assets and build a flexible, keyline component that frames text. This would probably be mostly for headlines, but it could work for short summaries too.

You should aim for the following:

• Your solution is progressively enhanced
• It works well if there is a small amount of text or a larger amount of text
• Make sure your keyline never interferes with the text content

Assetspermalink

I’ve used Sketch to design this challenge. You can view everything you need in the browser, here.

Here’s some assets to get you going:

• Sketch assets
• PDF Version
• Scope One font on Google Fonts

Here are some CSS Custom Properties for your colours:

:root {
  --color-dark: #1c2334;
  --color-light: #fcf3e1;
  --color-primary: #e9b44c;
}

Wrapping uppermalink

When you’ve tried building this one for yourself, head over to the solution to see how I built it!

See you at the next one 👋