Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “css”

Modern Font Stacks

System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes — just instant renders.

Poline — esoteric color palette generator

meodai.github.io/poline/

poline is lightweight, dependency free and fast JavaScript function written in TypeScript. It draws lines between anchors over polar coordinates to generate pleasing color palettes.

Fallback Font Generator

screenspan.net/fallback

Defensive CSS

defensivecss.dev/

Practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces.

systemfontstack

systemfontstack.com/

Adactio: Journal—Declarative design

adactio.com/journal/18982

Defining the inputs instead of trying to control the outputs.

Understanding Layout Algorithms

joshwcomeau.com/css/understanding-layout-algorithms/

As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we'll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is structured, and how to learn it effectively.

Right-to-left Styling

rtlstyling.com/posts/rtl-styling

Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

joshwcomeau.com/css/designing-shadows/

When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.

Table of Contents | The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

webtypography.net/toc/

5 steps to faster web fonts /// Iain Bean

iainbean.com/posts/2021/5-steps-to-faster-web-fonts/

Fine-tune your font files and optimise your loading strategy for maximum speed + minimum FOUT

Fluid Typography

fluid-typography.netlify.app/

Calculate CSS declarations for beautiful fluid typography headings.

Home | The Component Gallery

component.gallery/

The Component Gallery is a collection of components from the best Design Systems.

Continuous Typography / Max Kohler

maxkoehler.com/posts/continuous-typography/

Notes toward a continuous framework for screen typography

CSS Auditing Tools — Smashing Magazine

smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-auditing-tools/

In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers to get their work done better and faster. Starting out with a few tools for getting to the bottom of CSS.