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The style of ‘Old School’ tattoos is a popular aesthetic in the tattooing scene and has become an iconic illustration style in other genres of art. The stylised handmade drawings feature thick black outlines and bold colours, often depicting roses, anchors and pin-up girls from the tradition of sailor tattooing. Read more…
In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial we’re going to create a striped text effect with a retro 70s vibe. We’ll create the effect by layering up a series of strokes and fills with Illustrator’s Appearance panel, which preserves the live text so you don’t lose the ability to edit the wording. Read more…
Access All Areas members have a great collection of vector illustrations to download this week, courtesy of Martin Malchev. These 7 superhero graphics feature powerful characters in a bold comic book style, featuring a variety of poses and backgrounds. Supplied in AI, EPS and CorelDraw file formats, these graphics can Read more…
In this week’s roundup, WebKit’s method for truncating multi-line text gets some love, a note on calculations using custom properties, and a new OpenType feature that prevents typographic logjams. Truncating mutli-line text The CSS -webkit-line-clamp property for truncating multi-line text is now widely supported (see my usage guide). If you Read more…
Say you wanted to put the CSS-Tricks website in an . You’d do that like this: Without any other styling, you’d get a rectangle that is 300×150 pixels in size. That’s not even in the User Agent stylesheet, it’s just some magical thing about iframes (and objects). That’s almost certainly Read more…
This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre, a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. We use Calibre here on CSS-Tricks to keep an eye on things. In fact, I just popped over there to take a look and was notified of some little mistakes that slipped Read more…
Dave Rupert digs into some of his favorite Vue features and one particular issue that he has with React: I’ve come to realize one thing I don’t particularly like about React is jumping into a file, reading the top for the state, jumping to the bottom to find the render Read more…
David DeSandro has loads of super cool JavaScript libraries he’s created over the years. His latest is Zdog, a “round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas & SVG.” It’s only been about a month since he dropped it (although, like any good library, it’s been simmering) and it has been Read more…
I really like :focus-within. It’s a super useful selector that allows you to essentially select a parent element when any of its children are in focus. Say you wanted to reveal some extra stuff when a is hovered… div:hover .extra-stuff { /* reveal it */ } That’s not particularly keyboard-friendly. Read more…
Julia Carrie Wong and Matthew Cantor’s How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained was pretty hilarious. A little something in there to offend everyone. Speaking of kinda douchey words, I’m reminded of one of my favorite sites on the internet: Unsuck It. Not only does it call Read more…
