rfs

RFS

RFS stands for Responsive Font-Size, easy to remember, easy to use. This approach automatically calculates the correct font-size for every screen width. You just have got to define your font-size for big screens and the font-size will automatically decrease for smaller screens. RFS is a SCSS-mixin which generates the responsive css for you.

Instalation

You can use RFS in your project by installing it using a package manager (recommended):

npm:

$ npm install rfs --save

yarn:

$ yarn add rfs

Bower:

$ bower install rfs --save

Copy/paste (not recommended):

You can download the RFS SCSS-file and save it in your scss/ directory. This method is not recommended because you lose the ability to easily and quickly manage and update RFS as a dependency.

Usage

This input (SCSS):

.title {
  @include rfs(62);
}

Will generate this (CSS):

.title {
  font-size: 62px;
}

@media (max-width: 1200px) {
  .title {
    font-size: calc(23.6px + 3.2vw);
  }
}

Advantages

• Font sizes will rescale for every screen width, this prevents long words from being chopped off the screen
• Super easy to use, no need to define complex configurations for each font-size
• Font sizes of all text elements will always remain in relation with each other
• Rem-based font sizes will allow the user to change his default font size in his browser. People with limited vision can therefore increase their font size to increase readability.

Configuration

There are configuration variables which influence the calculation of the font size. If no unit is used, px-units will be assumed as unit. In the graph above, $rfs-minimum-font-size is set to 12, $rfs-breakpoint is set to 1200, and $rfs-factor is set to 5.

$rfs-minimum-font-size: (in px or rem)
Font sizes which are calculated by RFS will never be lower than this size. However, you can still pass a smaller font size to RFS, but then RFS won't dynamically scale this font size. For example (see graph above): rfs(17) will trigger dynamic rescaling, with rfs(10) it will just stay 10px all the time.
Default value: 14px

$rfs-minimum-font-size-unit: (string)
The font size will be rendered in this unit. Possible units are px and rem.
Default value: px

$rfs-breakpoint: (in px, em or rem)
This is the point where dynamic rescaling begins. Above this breakpoint, the font size will be equal to the font size you passed to the mixin.
Default value: 1200px

$rfs-breakpoint-unit: (string)
The width of $rfs-breakpoint will be rendered in this unit. Possible units are px, em and rem.
Default value: px

$rfs-factor: (number)
This is the more complex part. If the font sizes would all resize to the same value when the screen width would be 0, there wouldn’t be a lot of difference between the font sizes on small screens. To prevent this, we brought the $rfs-factor to life.
Let’s take an example from the graph above: The font size rfs(47) at a screen of 0px is 19px and not 16px because of this factor. This minimum font size is calculated like this:

Calculate the difference between the font-size (47) and $rfs-minimum-font-size (12)
47 - 12 = 35

Divide this number by the $rfs-factor (5)
35 / 5 = 7

Add this number to $rfs-minimum-font-size (12)
7 + 12 = 19

The higher $rfs-factor, the less difference there is between font sizes on small screens. The lower $rfs-factor, the less influence RFS has, which results in bigger font sizes for small screens. If $rfs-factor is set to 1, there wouldn’t be any difference at all. 1 is the lowest possible value.
Default value: 5

Demos

• Simple Codepen Demo
• RFS in bootstrap demo