Responsive font size in CSS

Question

I\'ve created a site using the Zurb Foundation 3 grid. Each page has a large h1:

Answer 1

This is partly implemented in foundation 5.

In file _type.scss they have two sets of header variables:

// We use these to control header font sizes
// for medium screens and above

$h1-font-size: rem-calc(44) !default;
$h2-font-size: rem-calc(37) !default;
$h3-font-size: rem-calc(27) !default;
$h4-font-size: rem-calc(23) !default;
$h5-font-size: rem-calc(18) !default;
$h6-font-size: 1rem !default;


// We use these to control header size reduction on small screens
$h1-font-reduction: rem-calc(10) !default;
$h2-font-reduction: rem-calc(10) !default;
$h3-font-reduction: rem-calc(5) !default;
$h4-font-reduction: rem-calc(5) !default;
$h5-font-reduction: 0 !default;
$h6-font-reduction: 0 !default;

For medium up, they generate sizes based on the first set of variables:

@media #{$medium-up} {
    h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { line-height: $header-line-height; }
    h1 { font-size: $h1-font-size; }
    h2 { font-size: $h2-font-size; }
    h3 { font-size: $h3-font-size; }
    h4 { font-size: $h4-font-size; }
    h5 { font-size: $h5-font-size; }
    h6 { font-size: $h6-font-size; }
}

And for default-i.e small screens, they use a second set of variables to generates CSS:

h1 { font-size: $h1-font-size - $h1-font-reduction; }
h2 { font-size: $h2-font-size - $h2-font-reduction; }
h3 { font-size: $h3-font-size - $h3-font-reduction; }
h4 { font-size: $h4-font-size - $h4-font-reduction; }
h5 { font-size: $h5-font-size - $h5-font-reduction; }
h6 { font-size: $h6-font-size - $h6-font-reduction; }

You can use these variables and override in your custom scss file to set font sizes for respective screen sizes.