Re-post : daverupert.com

Paravel has just wrapped up an exciting secret project with three of the web’s most talented designers: Jason Santa Maria, Frank Chimero, and Naz Hamid. These designs are epic, like 18,123px epic. Working with these guys was a complete joy. There were a few fun development challenges and – as you might expect from these gentlemen – a lot of fancy typography work in the delivered PSDs.

Before Trent and I marked up the designs, we noticed that in many instances we would need to style individual letters. We decided we’d need a system to keep our markup maintainable. Something agile enough that a text change wouldn’t ruin us. Our solution was to call upon the power of Javascript to insert some easy to remember span tags.