Font scaling based on width of container

Question

I\'m having a hard time getting my head around font scaling.

I currently have a website with a body font-size of 100%. 100% of what though? This seems t

Answer 1

You may be you looking for something like this:

http://jsfiddle.net/sijav/dGsC9/4/
http://fiddle.jshell.net/sijav/dGsC9/4/show/

I have used flowtype, and it's working great (however it's JavaScript and not a pure CSS solution):

$('body').flowtype({
    minFont: 10,
    maxFont: 40,
    minimum: 500,
    maximum: 1200,
    fontRatio: 70
});