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Blueprint CSS framework :Incorporating

What does Blueprint do? Incorporating Blueprint CSS into your workflow What does Blueprint do? Blueprint's core feature set is as follows: 1. It performs a mass reset of browser default styles. 2. It sets up sensible defaults for typography, including font families, header sizes, paragraph styles, list styles, a baseline grid, and more. It does all of this with relative sizes, so that it scales well in any browser. 3. It gives you a methodology to use for customizable layout grids. Any number of columns and widths you can dream up is easily achievable. 4. It provides a sensible default print stylesheet. 5. It does all of these things in ways that work elegantly in most browsers your visitors are likely to be using, including Internet Explorer 6 and 7. It's important to understand that all elements are override-able. Blueprint doesn't set out to be a stand-alone stylesheet for your site. Rather, it's a set of base styles you, the designer, can build on top of, override,