zurb/foundation-sass — Issue #23: Use Compass features to increase flexibility
Author: rosstimson
Created: 2012-01-23 19:41:01+00:00
State: open

I'm happy with the defaults on the project I'm currently working on with Foundation, however I think there are a few things that could perhaps be done to make Foundation more flexible.

Compass already has very nice typography helpers built-in that can help maintain vertical rhythm, see here for more info: http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/typography/vertical_rhythm/ Maybe Foundation could make use of these and then use ems for things such as headers. This will allow people to simply change their base font size and all the heading sizes, leading and and line-heights etc can change to suit automatically.

Another area which could be more flexible is the button colours, it would be much nicer if you could pass in a colour rather than having them hard coded. Something similar to Sassy Buttons (http://jaredhardy.com/sassy-buttons). In fact would it be an idea to just incorporate Sassy Buttons into the project and use it as the default way to style buttons, they have a 'Glass' style which is very similar to the Foundation buttons.

Is there any mileage in allowing the displaying of the grid guidelines when developing using these?: http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/layout/grid_background/

Just a few thoughts on things I've encountered during my short time with Foundation. I can help out with some of these if there is interest; since I'm currently happy with defaults though there is no point in me making large changes if there is no chance of it being merged into core.

Thanks for a great alternative to the ubiquitous big players such as Twitter Bootstrap. Foundation is my favourite addition to Compass since Susy.