#137 - CSS naked day

Hey everyone,

Welcome to issue #137, your weekly roundup of what’s happening in design, code and typography.

Thought provoking #

Stop making responsive websites the hard way! from Kevin Powell.

Checkout Ethan Marcotte’s Accessibility Statement and read his post Writing my accessibility statement to find out what it’s all about.

Design and Code #

The 9th April was CSS Naked day, the day where you get nude on the web and show off your , by removing your CSS entirely. The point is to draw attention to how the content still works in just plain HTML.

Andy Bell releases Learn Eleventy From Scratch a new course where he teaches how build a comprehensive JAMstack websites using Eleventy.

A Grid of Logos in Squares. A very useful tutorial from Chris Coyier on using CSS Grid and aspect ratio to create a consistent grid of logos.

LCH colors in CSS: what, why, and how? Lea Verou explains why LCH colours are a game-changer, will give us access to about 50% more colors and more.

Wallop System, built with Modulz. Pedro Duarte on creating a personal design system.

Typography #

Type Foundry Directory is a curated index of type foundries by Matthew Smith of Morning Type. The site is built from an Airtable spreadsheet using the Airtable javascript client.

Quarantype. The Zetafonts team release ten free font which they created over ten days whilst trapped home during the Coronavirus outbreak.

An interesting website to demonstrate the benefits of variable fonts from Type Network.

French type designer Ethan Nakache talks to It’s Nice That about his retro inspired, “spooky and classy” variable typeface, Sprat.

A collection of Type Specimens from aroud the web by John D. Jameson.

Something to watch #

Filmmaker Gary Hustwit is streaming his documentaries free worldwide during the global COVID-19 crisis. Each Tuesday we’ll be posting another film.

This week is Rams, about legendary designer Dieter Rams and his rumination on consumerism, materialism, and sustainability.