Odd question about real life problems and Front-end
Currently going through Front-End Mentor projects and doing just the free stuff. They give you usually font size 16, and some colors. I notice a lot of times colors are missing, and obviously one font size is not true. This leads to the images of the layout incredibly hard to match up and not knowing if it is how its suppose to be.
Is this common for real life front end developers working for a company? I'm guessing for freelancer more so yes, since more than likely you are also the designer?
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I can't give you a company standpoint but I'm a freelancer who makes designs as well. So I'll make a desktop/tablet/mobile version, and tweak the font-size as needed in the development stage.
I have had one contract where they gave me the design and I had to ask for a mobile version, so in total I had a desktop & a mobile version, with the tablet version I had to kind of fill in the gaps regarding pretty much everything, including font-sizes.
I think it really depends on what company your at; a larger, more established company will have stricter design specifications to ease the handoff between the design and development (at least in theory - I haven't worked for a larger company). With smaller companies/agencies/freelance, you'll have to fill in a lot of the gaps yourself
Before tools like Figma existed, it was common for a designer to submit designs as images with no information about fonts or dimensions. You had to figure it out yourself.
Thank you both. So I am better of interepting these projects my own, rather than going by the style guide.
It depends on the company for sure. If you get a style guide that's great, and if you have a dedicated designer and you have questions about the design, you can ask them.
But you might also be working on your own - so you'll need to interpret from the design or reach out to who you can to see what's up