RedwoodSDK

By Chris Coyier on

A bit of a pivot from the Redwood gang, splitting RedwoodJS into Redwood GraphQL … To minimize disruption and provide clarity going forward, we’re renaming the existing RedwoodJS framework to Redwood GraphQL, reflecting its strength as a mature, stable framework built around GraphQL. … and the newfangled RedwoodSDK. Redwood has always been ultra opinionated (I […]

“A Typeface for Kids”

By Chris Coyier on

If you’re designing something for kids, you’ve always got Comic Sans as a typeface choice. We make fun of it, but it really is playful and nice and quite readable. It’s not nearly this egregious. I’m sure you can find other good options out there too, but big high fives to the gang at Underware […]

Newfangled Browser Alternatives

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Most folks use one of the big browsers that we’ve all heard of. But there are more and more niche browsers built upon those big open source engines that differentiate themselves in interesting ways.

Pretty pretty

By Chris Coyier on

text-wrap: balanced; dropped first but text-wrap: pretty; wasn’t too far behind and they are both useful. The pretty value is now coming to Safari and Jen Simmons calls it “an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.” If you’ve already seen pretty and think of it as the thing that prevents short last […]

Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders

By Chris Coyier on

I’m not the world’s biggest fan of LQIP’s (low quality image placeholders) generally (doing nothing other than handling aspect ratio is… fine), but I really like how much creativity it inspires. I’ve seen a ton of different approaches to it over the years, that all use different technology and all have different advantages and disadvantages. […]