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Typefaces used by the Bauhaus
Letterform Archive’s inaugural exhibition, Bauhaus Typography at 100, displays nearly 200 objects representing the school’s influence on printed design. From its start in 1919, the Bauhaus incorporated mass production techniques in the creation of artwork… Read Full Article
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Accessible color for design systems just got easier
Over two years ago, we released Leonardo: the first-of-its-kind contrast ratio based color generation tool. Since then, Leonardo has… Read Full Article
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Variable fonts support in Figma
Variable fonts support in Figma allows you to broaden the possibilities of your designs and typography with a wide range of font styles and features. Read Full Article
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A product design process for the real world
The product design playbook I use to break down and execute on design projects. Read Full Article
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The slow but inevitable demise of UX Design
When I started Clearleft in 2005, we were arguably the first UX agency in the UK. Sure there were folks practicing various elements of User Centered Design; there were dedicated research agencies, dedicated IA agencies, tons of visual design agencies and … Read Full Article
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Around the artifacts of Design Systems
Like many things, a design system isn’t ever a finished thing — it’s a journey. How we go about that journey can affect the things we produce along the way. Before diving in and starting to plan anything out, be clear about where the benefits and the risk… Read Full Article
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Evaluating design system adoption using custom CSS
How the Castor design system team uses custom user CSS to easily and visually audit component and design token usage in live products. Read Full Article
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CSS Toggles
Late last week, I was very delighted to see that Chromium will start prototyping with CSS Toggles, a proposal currently only available as an Unofficial Draft, authored by Tab Atkins and Miriam Suzanne (who else?!). CSS toggles are a mechanism for associat… Read Full Article
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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache
At the end of 2021, the Chrome team shipped some functionality that has the ability to make or break sites meeting the Core Web Vitals. So, let’s learn a little bit more about the Back/Forward Cache (aka bfcache), and what you can do to test if your websi… Read Full Article
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Please, stop disabling zoom
Things might look unstyled because they probably are. Read Full Article