The road to Firefly 6, part 2, Roobottom.com
A look at the technical details behind Firefly’s pattern library. The tech stack includes Less, BEM, and some React, but it’s Anna and Danielle that really made it work.
Battling BEM – 5 common problems and how to avoid them
We tend to use a variant of BEM in our CSS at Clearleft. Glad to see that when we’ve hit these issues, we’ve taken the same approach.
Related links
Thoughtful CSS Architecture | Sparkbox | Web Design and Development
A good overview of ideas and techniques for structuring CSS and naming classes.
Fluid Type Scale - Generate responsive font-size variables
This is kind of a Utopia lite: pop in your minimum and maximum font sizes along with a modular scale and it spits out some custom properties for clamp() declarations.
Fluid scale and tokens: a match made in heaven - Andy Bell
Andy takes Utopia for a spin—it very much matches his approach.
Utopia
This is the project that Trys and James have been working on at Clearleft. It’s a way of approaching modular scales in web typography that uses CSS locks and custom properties to fantastic effect.
Utopia is not a product, a plugin, or a framework. It’s a memorable/pretentious word we use to refer to a way of thinking about fluid responsive design.
Related posts
Utopia
Why do I like fluid responsive typography? Let me count the ways…
Who knows?
Had you heard of these bits of CSS? Me too/neither!
Progressive disclosure defaults
If you’re going to toggle the display of content with CSS, make sure the more complex selector does the hiding, not the showing.
Making the Patterns Day website
The joy of getting hands-on with HTML and CSS.
Culture and style
Styling a document about The Culture novels of Iain M Banks.