I think we’re all largely aware of colors like this:
color: OldLace;
background: rebeccapurple;I guess you’d just call those “named colors” in CSS.
Those aren’t the only kind of named colors there are though. Some of them are …
As a front-end developer working for clients all over the world, I’ve always struggled to deal with multilingual websites — especially cases where both right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR) are used. That said, I’ve learned a few things along the way and am going to share a few …
System font stacks got hot about a year ago, no doubt influenced by Mark Otto’s work putting them live on GitHub.
The why, to me, feels like (1) yay performance and (2) the site looks like the rest of …
Stuart Frisby documents that you shouldn’t use the font shorthand when using a System Font Stack:
……don’t use -apple-system at the head of a shorthand font declaration, and test thoroughly, especially when playing around with proprietary stuff like system
Defaulting to the system font of a particular operating system can boost performance because the browser doesn’t have to download any font files, it’s using one it already had. That’s true of any “web safe” font, though. The beauty of …
There was a time when the smart move in picking fonts for a website was to a font-family that was supported across as many platforms as possible. font-family: Tahoma; and whatnot. Or even better, a font stack that would fall …
