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Big, Beautiful Dropcaps with CSS initial-letter
While it’s long been possible to create traditional dropcaps on the web using the ::first-letter pseudo selector, the process has been difficult: not only does it require a lot of careful, precise CSS, but any changes to the surrounding text, such as altering the typeface or line-height, push the dropcap out of alignment, whereas a good dropcap should always be “top and tail” with its associated text
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