Printing music with CSS grid
Laying out sheet music with CSS grid—sounds extreme until you see it abstracted into a web component.
We need fluid and responsive music rendering for the web!
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Remix Icon - Open source icon library
I love how easy it is to use these icons: you can copy and paste the SVG or even get it encoded as a data URL.
Basic Pattern Repository
A nice little collection of very simple—and very lightweight—SVGs to use as background patterns.
PlymouthPress – A Letterpress Image Font
An experimental image font made using the University of Plymouth’s unique letterpress workshop.
Grungy!
The font is intended for display purposes only, and not is suitable for body text.
Swipey image grids.
This is how you write up a technique! Cassie takes an SVG pattern she used on the Clearleft “services” page and explains it in step-by-step detail, complete with explanatory animated diagrams.
Good, Better, Best: Untangling The Complex World Of Accessible Patterns — Smashing Magazine
I really like the approach that Carie takes here. Instead of pointing to specific patterns to use, she provides a framework for evaluating technology. Solutions come and go but this kind of critical thinking is a long-lasting skill.
Static sites, slack and scrollytelling. | Clearleft
Cassie’s enthusiasm for fun and interesting SVG animation shines through in her writing!
Google font to SVG path
Cassie pointed me to this very nifty tool (that she plans to use in your SVG animation workshop): choose font from Google Fonts, type some text, and get the glyphs immediately translated into an SVG!
Lea Verou on Twitter
Now that all modern browsers support SVG favicons, here’s how to turn any emoji into a favicon.svg:
<svg xmlns="http://w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 100 100"> <text y=".9em" font-size="90"> 💩 </text> </svg>Useful for quick apps when you can’t be bothered to design a favicon!
Motion Paths - Past, Present and Future | Codrops
This is superbly in-depth and easy-to-follow article from Cassie—everything you need to know about motion paths in SVG and CSS! It’s worth reading just for the wonderful examples.
Interactive web animation with SVG by Cassie Evans | CSSCAMP 2019 - YouTube
Cassie’s excellent talk on SVG animation is well worth your time.
SVG Artista
A handy tool for tweaking the animations in your SVGs.
Creating my logo animation - cassie.codes
What a wonderfully in-depth and clear tutorial from Cassie on how she created the animation for her nifty SVG logo!
Also: Cassie is on the indie web now, writing on her own website—yay!
Smashing TV — Webinars and Live Sessions — Smashing Magazine
Don’t miss this—a masterclass in SVG animation with Cassie (I refuse to use the W word). Mark your calendar: August 20th.
Zdog · Round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas and SVG
Impressively lightweight and smooth!
Accessible Icon Buttons — Sara Soueidan – Freelance-Front-End UI/UX Developer
Sara runs through the many ways of providing an accessible name to an icon button, backed up with Scott’s testing.
Earth day at Clearleft
Isn’t this just lovely?
Cassie made a visualisation of the power we’re getting from the solar panels we installed on the roof of the Clearleft building.
I highly recommend reading her blog post about the process too. She does such a great job of explaining how she made API calls, created SVGs, and calculated animations.
HTML Includes That Work Today | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA
Scott writes up that super smart transclusion trick of his.
Inline an SVG file in HTML, declaratively & asynchronously!
Woah! This is one smart hack!
Scott has figured out a way to get all the benefits of pointing to an external SVG file …that then gets embedded. This means you can get all the styling and scripting benefits that only apply to embedded SVGs (like using fill).
The fallback is very graceful indeed: you still get the SVG (just not embedded).
Now imagine using this technique for chunks of HTML too …transclusion, baby!
The Many Ways to Change an SVG Fill on Hover (and When to Use Them) | CSS-Tricks
This article by Cassie is so, so good!
First off, there’s the actual practical content on how to change the hover styles of SVGs that aren’t embedded. Then there’s the really clear walkthrough she give, making some quite complex topics very understandable. Finally, there’s the fact that she made tool to illustrate the point!
Best of all, I get to work with the super-smart developer who did all this.