this suggests that japan is relatively unique in its concentration of lighter coloured and/or denser web design. A companion site to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ep308goxQ

A simple hand drawn HTML/CSS theme.

The community-driven resource library of CSS Houdini worklets. Learn about CSS Houdini, its APIs, usage, polyfills, and browser status, to take advantage of the Houdini APIs today. “Houdini is a set of low-level APIs that exposes parts of the CSS engine, giving developers the power to extend CSS by hooking into the styling and layout process of a browser’s rendering engine. Houdini is a group of APIs that give developers direct access to the CSS Object Model (CSSOM), enabling developers to write code the browser can parse as CSS, thereby creating new CSS features without waiting for them to be implemented natively in browsers.” —MDN

If you're using a web font, you're bound to see a flash of unstyled text (or FOUC), between the initial render of your websafe font and the webfont that you've chosen. This usually results in a jarring shift in layout, due to sizing discrepancies between the two fonts. To minimize this discrepancy, you can try to match the fallback font and the intended webfont’s x-heights and widths [1]. This tool helps you do exactly that.

Underlines are hard. Complications quickly arise if you want to do anything fancier than the good ol’ CSS text-decoration: underline. There are a lot of different techniques. Unfortunately, they nearly always come with significant drawbacks.

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Including some centering techniques, `li::marker`, and `display: inline-flex`, `column-rule`, `background-repeat: round`. There are a lot of CSS properties that some don’t know about, or they know about them, but forget to use them when they’re needed.

Pinegrow is a Mac, Windows and Linux web editor that lets you build responsive websites faster with live multi-page editing, CSS & SASS styling, CSS Grid editor and smart components for Bootstrap, Foundation and WordPress.

Provide videos with a supercharged focus on visual performance. This custom element renders just like the real thing but approximately 224× faster.

A lot of rules and diagrams.

You can't build anything with five hex codes. To build something real, you need a much more comprehensive set of colors to choose from.

It's a tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people with visual impairments. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Just a tiny part of making the web more accessible is accommodating for those with a form of blindness or low vision. The standard grading system is a great start, but I thought I'd try to humanize the people who are affected by the different grades.

Everyone needs a base to start from. We are DesignBase. DesignBase is a database of highly curated free resources for all designers.

This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers.

Water.css is a just-add-css collection of styles to make simple websites like this just a little bit nicer.

A little question is a big deal when it comes to shaping people’s experience with your product. How do we ask people for their gender in a thoughtful and respectful way?

We have covered print stylesheets in the past here on Smashing Magazine. In this article, Rachel Andrew takes a look at the state of printing from the browser today.

An Ultimate Collection of Google Font Pairs and Combinations! Save a tremendous amount of time, energy, and effort with our awesome 50 font pairings.

How to make a short block of text center-aligned but left-aligned when it's longer. Use `text-align: center` on the container and `display: inline-block` on the text container.

An experiment to show how designing for The Fold can be treacherous. Each line below is from a random sampling of past-visitors' viewport heights. Take care when making assumptions about people's screen sizes on the web.

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What newsroom design shops have needed is a renewed interest in research and development, and that’s exactly what these pieces are delivering.

If you want to create a custom HTML email signature for Mail on Mountain Lion, the HTML coding part remains the same but the installation have changed. Follow this tutorial to create a HTML email signature file and to get it installed into the new version of Mail on Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.

SVG is an image format for vector graphics. It literally means Scalable Vector Graphics. Basically, what you work with in Adobe Illustrator. You can use SVG on the web pretty easily, but there is plenty you should know.

Flexbox is pretty awesome and is certainly part of the future of layout. The syntax has changed quite a bit over the past few years, hence the "Old" and "New"

And even though not all current browsers make use of progressive jpeg’s progressive rendering, the ones that do really benefit, and we get file size savings across the board. It’s our best option today and we should use it. Progressive jpegs are the future, not the past.

If you’re using Google Web Fonts on your websites, then there’s a very good chance that 1 in 5 visitors are seeing faux bold and italic versions of your fonts — even if you correctly selected and used all of the weights and styles. That’s because the implementation method recommended by Google Web Fonts doesn’t work with Internet Explorer 7 or 8.

Good walkthrough of the essential sections of a web design contract.

Don’t worry about getting and right — there's no ‘right’. The web is mostly not structured content, and semantic tags aren’t necessarily more accessible or searchable or portable.