![]() The buttonhole is not centered over the button it is back off from the center front. ![]() So now it’s a matter of how we place the corresponding buttonhole. We already established that the button is sewn on the center front. Horizontal Buttonhole PlacementĪ horizontal buttonhole, however, is different. Note that the black dot is not the entire button it is just where I would sew the button on the corresponding side. That means the length of the buttonhole is on the center front too in the case of a center front button down shirt. When making a vertical buttonhole, the button should be sewn in the very center of the buttonhole. Obvious here, but only after spelling out the fact that center-front buttons are placed on the center front, then you can start to place the buttonholes accordingly. That makes perfect sense, right? You want the buttons to be exactly where the center is, not a little skewed to the right or a little skewed to the left (unless that’s the design element). In a button-down shirt, the buttons are placed in the center front. I guess that is the most common placement of buttons. But let’s talk about center front buttons as in a button-down shirt. Button Placementįrom a design perspective, you could put buttons anywhere you’d like on a garment. It doesn’t count the little bars before or after the actual hole. Note that the size of the buttonhole is the actual opening. If your button is big (such as 1 1/2″ or 3.8 cm), then you could add 1/4″ (6 mm) instead of 1/8″ (3 mm). 3/4″ button uses 7/8″ buttonhole (1.9 cm button uses 2.2 cm buttonhole).5/8″ button uses 3/4″ buttonhole (1.6 cm button uses 1.9 cm buttonhole).1/2″ button uses 5/8″ buttonhole (1.25 cm button uses 1.6 cm buttonhole).The rule of thumb is that the buttonhole is 1/8″ (3 mm) bigger than the button. I haven’t seen anyone discussing the topic in a blog post, so I thought I could contribute a little to the world of button and buttonhole placements. But more than one occasion, I have seen buttons that were placed a bit too close to the edge of a garment. ![]() I always thought the positions of button and buttonhole are pretty self-explanatory. Proper Placements for Buttons & Buttonholes ![]() All font files, whether we know it or not, contain some degree of kerning and we have the CSS font-kerning property to remove it. This is where kerning comes to the rescue! Kerning is literally defined as the spacing between letters. It a lovely font! However, there are a couple of points I’m not loving with this particular headline, specifically the spacing between a couple of letters, which makes things a little crowded: Take the following headline using Abril Fatface from Google Fonts: I often run into this one, especially when a design contains a highly customized web font that looks great in general, but might look funky when used in a certain context. ![]() We’re going to cover a few of those in this post along with methods for how to deal with them. There are still plenty of situations today where adjusting fonts is needed to ensure the best legibility despite having all these fancy tools. I remember my mind nearly bursting with excitement when I discovered FitText.js and Lettering.js way back when. Web fonts have come a very long way since then and we now have tools to tweak the way fonts render in browsers. In response, I likely would have sent you an image file that contains the content instead to make sure everything looked the same in all browsers. Then you may have tried explaining to me the pains of cross-browser compatibility and how different browsers render fonts differently from one another. If you were developing sites in 2006, then you may have worked with a designer like me who was all up in your business about fonts not looking exactly the same in the browser as they did in mockups. ![]()
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