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The typography of Skeleton is designed to create a strong hierarchy with basic styles. The primary font is the classic Helvetica Neue, but the font stack can be easily changed with just a couple adjustments. Regular paragraphs are set at a 14px base with 21px line height.
This is a blockquote style example. It stands out, but is awesome
Dave Gamache, Skeleton Creator
Buttons are intended for action and thus should have appropriate weight. The standard button is given that weight with a little bit of depth and a strong hover.
Click Me For Primary Action Click Me For Secondary Action Click Me For Tertiary Action Click Me For Default Action
Forms can be one of the biggest pains for web developers, but just use these dead simple styles and you should be good to go.
For icons, just use fontello.com to generate a font with the needed icons. For quick reference, a font with one icon (github ) has been added.
Skeleton uses a lot of media queries to serve the scalable grid, but also for the convenience of styling your site on different size screens. Skeleton's media queries are almost exclusively targeted at max and min widths rather than device sizes or orientations. The advantage of this is browsers and future mobile devices that don't map to exact set dimensions will still benefit from the styles. That being said, all of the queries were written to be optimal on Apple iOS devices. The built in media queries include: