Color Filters Can Turn Your Gray Skies Blue
A very interesting article by Amelia Bellamy-Royds on achieving a “duotone” effect in photos using SVG filters.
Issue #165
Everyone who tried to convince me to use modular CSS was wrong, including me.
Eugene Chechurin describes an interesting approach of replacing class names in the CSS in post-processing to ensure uniqueness on a global scope.
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Articles & Tutorials
Mastering CSS: BEM and ITCSS
Gabriel Fagundez on what things should you consider in order to write more maintainable and scalable CSS code.
Viewport vs Percentage Units
Ire Aderinokun shows how useful viewport height (vh) unit can be and when the percentage unit (%) might be more useful than viewport width (vw) unit.
Benton Modern, A Case Study On Art-Directed Responsive Web Typography
Marko Dugonjić explores ideas to push the boundaries of typographic design on the web and gets practical, with a key focus on responsive web typography.
Scalable Backgrounds in CSS
In this short video, Russ Weakley shows you how to create a background container that scales seamlessly to fit any browser size.
On writing real CSS (again)
Is it time to ditch the pre-processors (in favour of post-processors) and start writing real CSS again?
Inspiration
Isometric Experiment
A very interesting and impressive CSS experiment by Kirill Demura.