The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2021/04/26

around.co

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Meet Around, video calls built for collaboration, not meetings. Free up your screen for design sessions with our lightweight, unobtrusive interface.

piccalil.li

Getting started with CSS Custom Properties

Custom properties in CSS are exceptionally useful for abstracting complexity and interactivity into smaller, easier to manage pieces.

roblevintennis.medium.com

Illustration Teardowns: Refactoring Old Work

We all hate to look at our old work. Yuk! Blech! But as songwriter’s say “it’s all in the rewrite”!

zeichenschatz.net

How tracking and kerning improves all caps text

When untreated, all caps text creates problematic spaces between letters. Tracking fixes it mostly for web and app design, kerning fine-tunes it.

smashingmagazine.com

A Guide To Newly Supported, Modern CSS Pseudo-Class Selectors

An overview of useful but not very well-known CSS pseudo-class selectors that are already available in most modern browsers.