Challenge: Heading Keyline

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Front-End Challenges Club - Challenge #007


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 building permalink

A heading with keyline that reads "keylines look dope"

The brief permalink

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

Assets permalink

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:

Here are some CSS Custom Properties for your colours:

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

Wrapping up permalink

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 👋

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