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453: Building a Type Stack

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Using Semantic Type Stacks for Web Design Systems Apps

Apple uses 11 different semantics and they're kind of strangely specific, the smaller they get right. Apple has a thing called symbolic traits that you can adjust which includes like there's a bold, or I think on Mac, they call it emphasized weight. Google has five buckets: display, label, headline, body, subhead & footnote. So what do these semantics actually mean? Until we get down past body, like it makes sense, but like call out from there on down. What the hell is going on there? And those are my kind of, what the fuck is going on here? Questions as I'm using it.

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