Issue #582

March 15, 2024

A Global Design System

Brad Frost outlines an idea for a Global Design System to provide the world’s web designers & developers with a library of common UI components.

The Quiet, Pervasive Devaluation of Frontend

Josh Collinsworth examines the perceived devaluation of front-end development work.

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Articles & Tutorials

CSS for Printing to Paper

Ethan Dalool explains the basics of print stylesheets and shares some tips and tricks to help you optimize your webpages for print.

Creating Color Palettes With the CSS color-mix() Function

Michelle Barker examines how the color-mix() function can be a game-changer for your design process.

No Outer margin

Kyle Shevlin describes one of the most common antipatterns when building reusable components: a margin on the outermost element of a component.

The Fifty-Fifty Split and Overflow

Ryan Mulligan shows how to create a classic layout pattern where two elements occupy the same amount of inline space inside a row.

You Want border-color: transparent, Not border: none

Dave Rupert explains why, instead of removing the border from elements entirely, you should set the border-color to transparent instead.

A Cool set of CSS Stickers?

Do you already have your CSS Stickers set? If so, please take a photo and hit reply; I’d love to see how they look. And if you still don’t have your set, what are you waiting for? ;)

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