Issue #489

January 19, 2022

Modern Fluid Typography Using CSS Clamp

Adrian Bece explores fluid typography principles, use-cases, implementation with CSS clamp(), and an interactive fluid typography calculator.

How to Make a Pure CSS 3D Package Toggle

Jhey Tompkins demonstrates how to create a pure CSS 3D package toggle.

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Articles & Tutorials

Cascade Layers

Una Kravets gives an introduction to CSS cascade layers and the @layer property, which allow you to create specificity-based layers and help organize your CSS architecture.

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Make Beautiful Gradients

Joshua Comeau shows how to create rich, vivid, thoroughly-alive gradients by avoiding the “grey zone.”

Responsive Image Gallery With Animated Captions

Stephanie Eckles explores a technique for creating a responsive image gallery that uses object-fit for responsive image scaling, aspect-ratio for consistent image sizes, a CSS Grid trick to replace absolute positioning, and CSS transforms for animated effects.

Style Each List Item Using Simple CSS

Basharath shows how to customize style type for every individual list item by using CSS at-rule, @counter-style.

Accessible Heading Structure

Rian Rietveld offers some advice on creating accessible headings.

Grow and Improve in 2022

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