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I got this exact question in an email the other day, and I thought it would make a nice blog post because of how wonderfully satisfying this is to do in CSS these days. Plus we can sprinkle in polish to it as we go. HTML-wise, I’m thinking image, text, image, text, etc. <img src="..." alt="..." he..

A designer can never have enough fonts in their toolbox, especially calligraphy fonts that are all the rage now. Calligraphy fonts add a touch of elegance to any design project, not to mention they are also great for expressing personality and character. Moreover, calligraphy fonts can be used in a..

The click event is quite simple and easy to use; you listen for the event and run code when the event is fired. It works on just about every HTML element there is, a core feature of the DOM API. As often the case with the DOM and JavaScript, there are nuances to consider. Some nuances with the clic..

There is no shortage of places to buy fonts online, but the quality of what is on offer is variable, and the way of searching catalogs has remained largely unchanged since the first stores appeared decades ago. I Love Typography — a popular source of news about typography and type design since 2007..

I was working on a bug ticket the other day where it was reported that an icon was sitting low in a button. Just not aligned like it should be. I had to go on a little journey to figure out how to replicate it before I could fix it. Lemme set the scene. Here’s the screenshot: See how the icon is j..

If you’ve ever attempted to read up on or start your own business, you’ll likely have come across this encouraging nugget of information – the one that says upwards of 90% of new businesses fail within the first five years. That’s pretty alarming, but even more alarming is when you’re the designer ..

I use this line, or one like it, in a lot of quick demos. Not that it’s not a production-worthy line of code—I just tend to be a bit more explicit on bigger projects. html { font: 110%/1.4 system-ui; } Someone wrote in confused by it, and I could see how a line like that is a bit bewildering at ..

Delan Azabani digs into the (hopefully) coming soon ::spelling-error and ::grammar-error pseudo selectors in CSS. Design control is always nice. Hey, if we can style scrollbars and style selected text, why not this? The squiggly lines that indicate possible spelling or grammar errors have been a st..

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I needed to select some elements between two fixed indexes the other day — like literally the second through fifth elements. Ironically, I have a whole post on “Useful :nth-child Recipes” but this wasn’t one of them. The answer, it turns out, isn’t that complicated. But it did twist my brain a lit..