Challenge: Heading Keyline

Published on by Andy Bell

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

A heading with keyline that reads "keylines look dope"

The brief

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

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:

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

Wrapping up

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 👋