Creating Style Guides
Susan Robertson
Susan Robertson shows how to build and maintain a style guide that helps everyone from product owners and producers to designers and developers keep an ever-changing site on brand and on target.
Issue #106
The Power of em Units in CSS
Louis Lazaris
Louis Lazaris explains how em units work, and demonstrates a useful technique for building responsive web components.
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Articles & Tutorials
How to Create a Circular Progress Button
Manoela IlicManoela Ilic shows how to create an animated circular progress button with success and error states as an indication of the final status.
Font Size Idea: px at the Root, rem for Components, em for Text Elements
Chris CoyierChris Coyier demonstrates a very interesting technique for handling web component sizes effectively.
Advanced Web Typography: Justification & Hyphenation
Elliot Jay StocksElliot Jay Stocks looks at the current state of hypenation and justification in CSS.
Goodbye Compass
Ben SmithettAre you using Compass? If so, have you considered moving away from it?
Is Libsass, the lightning fast Sass compiler ready for prime time?
Ben FrainLibsass is a compiler for Sass that does not rely on Ruby to generate the CSS. It’s blazingly fast and makes style iterations far more palatable. Ben Frain outlines its pros and cons.
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Inspiration
Hover Me: Ribbitting Pixelated Frog
Lucero Carmona
I bet that you didn’t know that frogs, particularly the pixelated ones, can be this appealing.