#golden_ratio

Why the #Golden_Ratio matters — Medium
▻https://medium.com/@quick_brown_fox/why-the-golden-ratio-matters-583f6737c10c

I came across this quote last week, during my post-lunch ritual of catching up with Internet goings-on. It comes from a piece on FastCo Design titled “The Golden Ratio: Design’s Biggest Myth,” authored by John Brownlee, and it’s been nagging at me ever since.

It is a bit of writing that is at best unnecessary and sensationalist; At worst, coming from a content platform that has rapidly risen to the forefront of design discourse, it is dangerous.

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#css and the #golden_ratio
▻http://dvncan.com/2013/10/28/css-and-the-golden-ratio.html

A few weekes ago while at Brooklyn Beta, I was lucky enough to sit next to Scott Kellum during lunch. He mentioned how recently he had been interested in the idea of making fractals using nested CSS shapes with sizes defined by ems.
I was excited to play with the idea, and so I began working with the golden ratio (#1.618033988...).