Fluid type sizes and spacing — Piper Haywood

Prompted by Utopia, Piper shares her methodology for fluid type in Sass.

Fluid type sizes and spacing — Piper Haywood

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Printing music with CSS grid

Laying out sheet music with CSS grid—sounds extreme until you see it abstracted into a web component.

We need fluid and responsive music rendering for the web!

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Fractional. — Ethan Marcotte

Ethan’s ode to the fr unit in CSS grid.

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google webfonts helper

Google Fonts only lets you download .ttf files meaning that if you want to self-host your fonts (and you should), you have to first convert them to .woff2 files.

Luckily this tool has been online for over a decade, doing what Google Fonts should be doing by default.

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Knowing CSS is mastery to Frontend Development — Anselm Hannemann

Anselm isn’t talking about becoming a CSS wizard, but simply having an understanding of what CSS can do. I have had similar experiences to this:

In the past years I had various situations where TypeScript developers (they called themselves) approached me and asked whether I could help them out with CSS. I expected to solve a complex problem but for me — knowing CSS very well — it was always a simple, straightforward solution or code snippet.

Let’s face it, “full stack” usually means “JavaScript”—HTML and CSS aren’t considered worthy of consideration. Their loss.

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Bunny Fonts | Explore Faster & GDPR friendly Fonts

A drop-in replacement for Google Fonts without the tracking …but really, you should be self-hosting your font files.

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A presentation at An Event Apart Seattle 2018.

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Combining custom properties, hsl(), and calc() to get cascading button styles.

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A clever technique I learned from Trys.

CSS custom properties in generated content

They said it couldn’t be done.