Color accessibility: tools and resources to help you design inclusive products by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.
Resources, tips and tools to build and check the color accessibility in one single place for future reference
Modern CSS Techniques To Improve Legibility
Modern CSS has numerous tools to help you improve the legibility of your text, from cutting edge technologies like variable fonts, to newly precise control of established properties. Edoardo Cavazza introduces some of his favorite tricks, with plenty of actionable tips for implementing them on your own sites.
A Complete Guide to CSS Functions | CSS-Tricks
Like any other programming language, CSS has functions. They can be inserted where you’d place a value, or in some cases, accompanying another value declaration.
Responsive CSS Grid - Books
Yet another CSS Grid product layout. This time with books, clip-path, conic-gradient and, of course, some superfluous shadows and hover effects...
BEM Naming Cheat Sheet by 9elements
This tool aims to help you to not get lost in the BEM cosmos by giving you naming-suggestions for some of the most common web components.
Responsive Images the Simple Way
The responsive images spec is fantastic and covers a lot of use cases, but in my experience, most of the time you’ll only need to understand one of them: Serving a different sized copy of the same image depending on the user’s viewport width.
Pixels vs. Relative Units in CSS: why it’s still a big deal
The most important reason for using responsive and unitless values in our CSS is for supporting our users that rely on zooming. If you read the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, our users need to be able to zoom the viewport without loss of content or functionality, or restrictions imposed by CSS values or viewport scaling settings.
Spacing, Grids and Layouts
The organization of space is key to every great design. Spatial systems, grids, and layouts provide rules that give your designs a consistent rhythm, constrain decision making, and help teams stay aligned. This foundational scaffolding is a requirement for all design systems. In this guide, we’ll walk through the basics of defining spatial base units, creating relationship rules with grids, and bringing it all together for modern UI layouts.
The Many Ways to Link Up Shapes and Images with HTML and CSS | CSS-Tricks
Different website designs often call for a shape other than a square or rectangle to respond to a click event.
“Variable Fonts and the Future of Web Typography” by Jason Pamental—An Event Apart video
Variable fonts include EVERY width, weight, slant, and other permutation of a typeface, all in a single file not much bigger than a regular font file. In this hour-long presentation captured live at An Event Apart Orlando 2018, Jason Pamental delves into the ins and outs of variable fonts, showing you not just how far the new capabilities can take us, but how to make use of them right away.
Using outline instead of border - Andy Bell
You can use outline instead of border to achieve the same visual effect, but it’ll bleed over the edges nicely.
📐 Swiss-Style Typographical Posters With CSS Grid - a Collection by Henry Desroches on CodePen
Classic Josef Müller-Brockmann posters reinvented with HTML and modern CSS!
Using rel="preconnect" to establish network connections early and increase performance | CSS-Tricks
Adding rel=preconnect to a informs the browser that your page intends to establish a connection to another domain, and that you'd like the process to start as soon as possible. Resources will load more quickly because the setup process has already been completed by the time the browser requests them.
This Ain’t Disney: A practical guide to CSS transitions and animations
Can anyone admit they’re not delighted when a component slides into view and appears to slow down before coming to a complete stop? There’s something nice about that. So what is that special touch, and why is it so hard to reproduce?
Drop caps & design systems - Vox Product Blog
What if we got aspect-ratio sized images by doing almost nothing? | CSS-Tricks
The Flexbox Holy Albatross | HeydonWorks
Brilliant.
DRY Switching with CSS Variables
Brilliant write up by Ana Tudor on CSS_Tricks of the use of CSS custom properties with demos and examples, some of which a little math heavy -- I love
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1
Discover the new WCAG set of guidelines (or 17 success criteria) presented in a comprehensive manner by Alan Dalton.
CSS Border-Radius Can Do That?
Links List for Print Styles | Adrian Roselli
Time-saving CSS techniques to create responsive images
css-tricks.com
How Big Is That Box? Understanding Sizing In CSS Layout — Smashing Magazine
CSS Grid in IE: Debunking Common IE Grid Misconceptions | CSS-Tricks
blog.theodo.fr
Cards
BEMIT: Taking the BEM Naming Convention a Step Further – CSS Wizardry – CSS Architecture, Web Performance Optimisation, and more, by Harry Roberts
Getting Started With CSS Layout — Smashing Magazine
FF Meta Variable Font Demo