Issue #421

July 29, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity

Andy Clarke explains how the work of Emmett McBain, a Black American graphic designer whose work had a remarkable impact on the representation of Black Americans in advertising, can inspire what we design for the web.

Ahmad Shadeed explains the background-image property in detail and provides a visual explainer on how we can stack multiple backgrounds.

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Articles & Tutorials

CSS Animated Google Fonts

Jhey Tompkins demonstrates how to animate variable fonts.

Modern CSS Techniques To Improve Legibility

Edoardo Cavazza covers how we can improve website legibility using some modern CSS techniques, great new technologies like variable fonts, and putting into practice what we learned from doing scientific research.

Using Flexbox and Text Ellipsis Together

Leonardo Faria explains how to use text ellipsis with Flexbox.

CSS Variables: Scoping

Chidume Nnamdi shows how to apply scoping in CSS variables to streamline theming and enable clean, modular design systems.

Things I Wish I’d Known About CSS

Dave Smyth shares some things that will help you to write CSS more quickly, and make your code more efficient and resilient.

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