I only just recently saw Faces.js, a library for producing controllable cartoony avatars. It was launched in 2012, so I’m a little late to the party. It produces faces (busts, really) randomly, or with certain parameters locked to what you want. I think that’s a really cool idea, and if you needed this kind of […]
I’m already a little over all the green. What was I thinking? I’m much more of a nice gray color palette kinda guy with some fun poppy colors. That’s what we need to get to here. When we left off, we just had wireframes going. It’s time to get some style on this thing! Custom […]
I happen to have bookmarked a few new-to-me SVG tools that all seemed to fit together in interesting ways, so I thought I would have a play and share. Raster to SVG One type of these tools is Raster-to-SVG. That is, taking something like a photo and “vectorizing” it. I happen to have my multivitamin […]
I’m a fan of just chucking SVG icons right into the HTML where you need them: This has lots of benefits, like instant loading with no additional requests, and is 100% styleable, including all the internal parts (i.e. multicolor icons). But, putting your SVG icons in CSS can be advantageous too. This converter is handy. […]
Clever idea idea from Rauno Freiberg then explained by Brad Woods. To create a line drawn on scroll effect, we render a line down the page. Then, use a clip-path to show only part of it. As the user scrolls, we translate the clip-path down the page.