Using fallbacks for CSS custom properties for granular control of shorthand values.

Also known as "CSS variables," this nifty modern CSS feature enables incredible flexibility throughout your stylesheets.

CSS variables are very powerful, and they allow to do a lot of interesting things. But there are no native conditionals that we could use in CSS with them. In this article I’ll talk about one of the ways we can fake such conditions with calculations.

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

CSS Custom Property color-theming. Contribute to oddbird/cascading-color-system development by creating an account on GitHub.

Website for Adam Argyle: Teacher, Speaker, CSSWG member, and creator of Open Props and VisBug.

Managing our colors can truly help people to access our content. In this article, Brecht de Ruyte takes a deep dive into how we can create a high-contrast system while maintaining a balance between designing something accessible and respecting the look and feel of a brand.

Sample illustrating the use of CSS Custom Properties (CSS Variables).

CSS Custom Properties are great, and can be integrated into a Sass project in interesting ways.

Back in July 2020, I got an email from James0x57 (I always try to refer to people by their name, but I think I get the sense they prefer to go by screen name)

Howdy, this is related, but not identical, to issue #2890. I've read the Stack Overflow response but unfortunately, that's not satisfactory in my case. Fundamentally my goal is this...

The goal of this article is to walk you through use-cases where CSS variables shine.

How leveraging CSS variable composition and HSLA colors helped me build a more efficient way to theme my apps and rely less on CSS-in-JS.