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Between Strategy and Story: Thierry Chopain’s Creative Path
5.9.2025
Thierry Chopain, co-founder of type8 studio, is a designer focused on typography, strategy, and digital imagery, creating clear and enduring visual work
What You Need to Know About CSS Color Interpolation
5.9.2025
Color what? Sunkanmi Fafowora explains how an everyday task for CSS can be used to create better colors experiences.
What You Need to Know About CSS Color Interpolation originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
From Zero to MCP: Simplifying AI Integrations with xmcp
4.9.2025
Learn how xmcp, a TypeScript framework, streamlines building Model Context Protocol servers and connecting LLMs to real-world data
Should the CSS light-dark() Function Support More Than Light and Dark Values?
2.9.2025
The light-dark() function is currently designed to support just two color schemes. Should it support others? Sunkanmi Fafowora says yes and no.
Should the CSS light-dark() Function Support More Than Light and Dark Values? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean...
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the New Jitter Website
2.9.2025
How Jitter reimagined its website to highlight collaboration, creativity, and motion design at scale
CSS Elevator: A Pure CSS State Machine With Floor Navigation
29.8.2025
In this article, author Chris Sabourin walk through how modern CSS features can build a fully functional, interactive elevator that knows where it is, where it’s headed, and how long it’ll take to get there. No JavaScript required.
CSS Elevator: A Pure CSS State Machine With Floor Navigation...
Design as Rhythm and Rebellion: The Work of Enrico Gisana
29.8.2025
Discover the work of Enrico Gisana, where branding, typography, and motion converge through experimental design
A Radio Button Shopping Cart Trick
27.8.2025
Here's an approach for animating products added to a shopping cart that handles an infinite number of items using a variation of the ol' Checkbox Hack.
A Radio Button Shopping Cart Trick originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Getting Creative With Images in Long-Form Content
25.8.2025
Images in long-form content can (and often should) do more than illustrate. They help set the pace, influence how readers feel, and add character that words alone can’t always convey.
Getting Creative With Images in Long-Form Content originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
3D Layered Text: Interactivity and Dynamicism
22.8.2025
In this third and final chapter, we’re stepping into interactivity by adding JavaScript, starting with a simple :hover effect, and ending with a fully responsive bulging text that follows your mouse in real time.
3D Layered Text: Interactivity and Dynamicism originally published on CSS-Tricks...
Designer Spotlight: Andrés Briganti
22.8.2025
Discover how Buenos Aires–based creative Andrés Briganti transforms abstract concepts into timeless visual forms
Developer Spotlight: Ruud Luijten
21.8.2025
Meet Ruud Luijten, a freelance developer who brings passion and creativity together to craft immersive web experiences
3D Layered Text: Motion and Variations
20.8.2025
In this chapter, we will explore ways to animate the effect, add transitions, and play with different variations. We will look at how motion can enhance depth, and how subtle tweaks can create a whole new vibe.
3D Layered Text: Motion and Variations originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
3D Layered Text: The Basics
18.8.2025
A client asked me to create a bulging text effect. With a bit of cleverness and some advanced CSS, I managed to get a result I’m genuinely proud of, which is covered in this three-part series.
3D Layered Text: The Basics originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family....
Designer Spotlight: Clarisse Michard
15.8.2025
A peek into the creative world of Clarisse Michard, a Toulouse-based web designer crafting playful, custom digital experiences with Okey Studio
Covering hidden=until-found
15.8.2025
Short story: Slapping hidden=until-found on an element in HTML enables any hidden content within the element to be findable in the browser with in-page search.
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Setting the Stage: Inside the Process of Bringing Christian Fleming’s Work to Life in Print, Web, and 3D
14.8.2025
A detailed, behind-the-scenes look at how theatrical design, visual storytelling, and creative collaboration shaped this multi-format project
On Accessibility Conformance, Design Systems, and CSS “Base” Units
14.8.2025
My brain can’t help but try to make connections between seemingly disparate ideas. And that’s what happened yesterday when I read:
Hidde’s “Can components conform to WCAG?”
Joas’s “Automating Design Systems”
Zell’s “We Might Need...
We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements”
13.8.2025
I've come to realize that perhaps we need to have a unit between root and relative values. This would bring about a whole new possibility when creating reusable components.
We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements” originally published...
Getting Creative With Quotes
11.8.2025
How do you design block quotes and pull quotes to reflect a brand’s visual identity and help tell its story? Here’s how I do it by styling the HTML blockquote element using borders, decorative quote marks, custom shapes, and a few unexpected properties.
Getting Creative With Quotes originally...