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A versal letters is a typographic flourish found in illuminated manuscripts and traditional book design, where it adds visual interest and helps guide a reader’s eye to where they should begin.

Getting Creative With Versal Letters originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Gathered notes on Liquid Glass, Apple’s new design language that was introduced at WWDC 2025. These links are a choice selection of posts and resources that I've found helpful for understanding the context of Liquid Glass, as well as techniques for recreating it in code.

Getting Clarity on Apple’s Liquid Glass originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

State of Devs 2025 survey results are out! Sunkanmi Fafowora highlights a few key results about diversity, health, and salaries.

What I Took From the State of Dev 2025 Survey originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

The many ways to juggle line length when working with text... including two proposed properties that could make it easier in the future.

Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

I was playing around with scroll-driven animations, just searching for all sorts of random things you could do. That’s when I came up with the idea to animate main headings and, using scroll-driven animations, change the headings based on the user’s scroll position.

Scroll-Driven Sticky Heading originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Layout. It’s one of those easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master things, like they say about playing bass. Not because it’s innately difficult to, say, place two elements next to each other, but because there are many, many ways to tackle it. And …

The Layout Maestro Course originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

The shape() function's close and move commands may not be ones you reach for often, but are incredibly useful for certain shapes.

Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 4: Close and Move originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Styling the space between layout items — the gap — has typically required some clever workarounds. But a new CSS feature changes all that with just a few simple CSS properties that make it easy, yet also flexible, to display styled separators between your layout items.

The Gap Strikes Back: Now Stylable originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Being the bad boy I am, I don't take Tailwind's default approach to cascade layers as the "best" one. Over a year experimenting with Tailwind and vanilla CSS, I've come across what I believe is a better solution.

Using CSS Cascade Layers With Tailwind Utilities originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Blob, Blob, Blob. What's the most effective way to create blob shapes in CSS? Turns out, as always, there are many. Let's compare them together!

CSS Blob Recipes originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

KelpUI is new library that Chris Ferdinandi is developing, designed to leverage newer CSS features and Web Components. I've enjoyed following Chris as he's published an ongoing series of articles detailing his thought process behind the library, getting deep into his approach. You really get a clear picture of his strategy and I love it.

KelpUI originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

The CSS if() function enables us to use values conditionally, but what exactly does if() do? Let's look at a possible real-world use case.

Poking at the CSS if() Function a Little More: Conditional Color Theming originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

The CSS if() function was recently implemented in Chrome 137, making it the first instance where we have it supported by a mainstream browser. Let's poke at it a bit at a very high level.

Lightly Poking at the CSS if() Function in Chrome 137 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Zell discusses refactoring the Resize, Mutation, and Intersection Observer APIs for easier usage, demonstrating how to implement callback and event listener patterns, while highlighting available options and methods.

A Better API for the Intersection and Mutation Observers originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

An introduction to "Color spaces", "Color models", "Color gamuts," and basically all of the "Color somethings" in CSS.

Color Everything in CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.