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In the part "Font Loading" there is a repetition :

Flash of Unstyled Text (FOUT). A FOUT is an instance where where a web page uses default and fallback fonts before switching to the proper web font.

The Typography Handbook says the following:

The Gestalt Law of Similarity states that entities that look similar tend to be grouped together. For example, if all clickable texts are sky-blue, the audience will assume that all textual content that is sky-blue is clickable.
In typography, the law of similarity just means to keep your styles consistent on elements that serve the same function. Group of elements should also look similar to other groups that serve the same function, for example: the visual styles of one blog post should look similar to another blog post. On the other hand, elements with a different functions should not look similar to one another.

However, it violates this very law in each "further readings" section, which has an opposite color scheme to the rest of the page:

Same applies to the table of contents, which uses black and gray colors for anchor links (or, more accurately, #333 and #333 with 0.75 opacity):

I had this page open but minimised in my browser for several days while i waited for a good time to read it. During that time it was repeatedly using the github API and draining my rate-limit, which was badly affecting my use of other pages that populate the page with content using the github API. Finally, the helpful folks at github helped me identify this page as the culprit.

I suggest you only use an API call once when the page is opened.

There are browser themes that don’t have a default white background for websites. For example Firefox on Ubuntu prefers showing a light grey for website bodies when the web designer didn’t define the background. This results in seeing white shadows behind all links in the Typography Handbook.

To prevent this, explicitly define body {background-color: white;}.

Mention normalize-opentype.

Mention FOUC, FOUT, FOIT and this way to fight it.

Typographic baseline - basekick.

Please either change the license on this project, or remove my material from this repo. Thank you.

Actually it's not possible to read the one page website without connexion.
If you add a Service Workers script, it will be possible !
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I've noticed the suggestion of the use of rem in the code for vertical rhythm, with SASS calculations based on font-size. I'm wondering whether usage of em for heading margins wouldn't be more useful and simple - effectively the same calculation would happen automatically. In this case the dynamic nature of em size is actually a feature - larger heading will get more space, etc.
So I suggest to revise the rem suggestion, or at least to provide some useful information about the em alternative in this context.
Obviously you know a lot about the subject, so I also wonder maybe there's a thing for me to learn here.
This article (which is linked in your page) provides examples for this use case:
https://zellwk.com/blog/rem-vs-em/