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Geist

Geist

Geist embodies our design principles of simplicity, minimalism, and speed, drawing inspiration from the renowned Swiss design movement. With precision, clarity, and functionality at its core, Geist enhances the visual experience of developers...

Relative Colors

Relative Colors

Over the years, we have been used to using CSS pre-processors like Sass for a use case like applying opacity to a pre-defined color. Today, we have a new way to do that and more with CSS relative colors. In this article, I aim to shed the light on that and introduce...

Screenity

Screenity

A screen recorder that's free, private, and friendly With Screenity you can relax. No time limits, an easy interface, and awesome features.

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Omatsuri

Omatsuri

Open source browser tools for everyday use

SVG Repo

SVG Repo

500.000+ Open-licensed SVG Vector and Icons Search, explore and edit the best-fitting free icons or vectors for your projects using a wide variety vector library. Download free SVG vectors and icons for commercial use.

Quick Reference

Quick Reference

Here are some cheatsheets and quick references contributed by open source angels.

Full-Bleed Layout with Modern CSS

Full-Bleed Layout with Modern CSS

Cool, right? Not only have we created a full-bleed layout with compact code but we can easily adjust it to control the margin behavior of the elements. Can you think of other variations? I am sure we could tweak the formulas to have other useful and interesting...

Should navigation bars be sticky or fixed?

Should navigation bars be sticky or fixed?

Like most UX design decisions, choosing the best type of navigation isn’t a one-size-fits-all verdict. It depends on your digital product, target users, and UX goals.

VIET GD

VIET GD

A casual index, archive, and celebration of Vietnamese graphic design. Currently, there are 274 objects in this collection.

tinygradient

tinygradient

Easily generate color gradients with an unlimited number of color stops and steps.

State of React 2024

State of React 2024

Instead, React 19 focused on taking a lot of our pain away, from making forwardRef obsolete, to diffs for hydration errors, to a new compiler that makes our code more performant with minimal extra work on our part.

Chuck Norris red

Chuck Norris red

Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving whipping it out the good ol' CSS color property. But this is HTMHell, dammit. None of that wishy-washy CSS nonsense here. No siree. We use HTML as the good lord intended and shalln't stray...

Hero Patterns

Hero Patterns

A collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your web projects.

Every HTML element

Every HTML element

There are over a hundred HTML elements. This page uses all of them. You're looking at <p></p> right now.

Optimizing Images for Web Performance

Optimizing Images for Web Performance

Images make websites look great, but they’re also the biggest performance bottleneck. They add huge file sizes, delay Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and can even mess with Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) if they aren’t handled properly. And while developers are quick...

litur

litur

A color picker for the real world. Find, collect and organize all the colors around you.A designer’s best-kept secret, a developer's best friend.

Understanding Accessibility.

Understanding Accessibility.

Accessibility should be at the core of web design.  Colour, typography, animations and images need to be applied according to certain rules so that information can be digested easily. Designers need to understand how people with (and without) disabilities...

untools

untools

Thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

Figcomponents.com

Figcomponents.com

We've curated the best Figma components in one place. Discover, copy and paste UI components in Figma with the most efficient way to build designs. Get all the essentials for any design project in one place. From buttons to data visualizations, you'll find the perfect...

Landing Pages Explained

Landing Pages Explained

The only collection of leading SaaS and creator landing pages with expert explanations of the ideas used to increase conversion

Extending the cursor

Extending the cursor

The cursor has transformed from a simple pointing device into a powerful tool for enhancing user interaction and providing contextual feedback. Software and games are raising the bar for what the cursor interface can do, demonstrating how thoughtful extensions of a...

Full-Bleed Layout with Modern CSS

Full-Bleed Layout with Modern CSS

I recently shared a trick on how to create a Full-bleed layout using a few lines of modern CSS code. If you are unfamiliar with such layout see the demo below. In this article we’ll dig deeper into the idea and explain things as we go.

Dark Mode and Accessibility: Finding the Right Balance

Dark Mode and Accessibility: Finding the Right Balance

It didn’t take long for the “dark mode” to become a requirement for every user interface design. What started out as a design trend turned into a must-have feature for offering a comfortable user experience.

Should navigation bars be sticky or fixed?

Should navigation bars be sticky or fixed?

Like most UX design decisions, choosing the best type of navigation isn’t a one-size-fits-all verdict. It depends on your digital product, target users, and UX goals.

Learn Shader Programming with Rick and Morty

Learn Shader Programming with Rick and Morty

This animation of Rick was made with 240 lines of code. No libraries, no images. I’m going to show you how to use GPU shaders and signed distance fields to make animations like it for videos, video games, or just for fun! I even built a live coding editor into the...

CSS text-box-trim

CSS text-box-trim

Take back space from above and below your text content; achieve optical balance.

Super Color Palette

Super Color Palette

Generate super awesome color palettes by shifting hue, saturation, lightness, and more!

Thoughts on Tailwind 4

Thoughts on Tailwind 4

The Tailwind CSS v4.0 beta was just released, and I wanted to share some thoughts on it. More specifically, I have some concerns that I have not seen covered elsewhere.

Design for Real Life – Eric Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Design for Real Life – Eric Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Join Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Eric Meyer as they turn examples from more than a dozen sites and services into a set of principles you can apply right now. Whether you're a designer, developer, content strategist, or anyone who creates user experiences, you'll gain...

Why I’m excited about text-box-trim as a designer

Why I’m excited about text-box-trim as a designer

I’ve been excited by the potential of text-box-trim, text-edge and text-box for a while. They’re in draft status at the moment, but when more browser support is available, this capability will open up some exciting possibilities for improving typesetting in the...

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Finding Fresh Design Inspiration

Finding Fresh Design Inspiration

Seeking fresh web design inspiration? Explore these top sites that ignite creativity and keep you trend-savvy, while non-traditional sources open new creative pathways.