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By Siavash Ghanbari · Founder of Emojar
🌅CSS Gradient Checklist: Angles, Stops and No Muddy Middles
Nine practical tips for better CSS gradients, from fixing the gray dead zone between complementary colors to hard stops, angles and readable text.
Tool GuideColorCSSDesign▦CSS Grid Lines, Tracks and fr Units, Explained Visually
How grid-template-columns, the fr unit and numbered grid lines work together, with a holy-grail layout you can build, resize and copy as CSS.
Tool GuideDeveloperCSSGrid🔄Does CSS Transform Order Matter? Rotate, Scale and matrix()
How translate, rotate, scale and skew combine, why their order changes the result, what transform-origin does, and how a list becomes one matrix().
Tool GuideDeveloperCSSFront End🎨HEX to HSL: Build Shades, Hover States and Themes
Convert a brand HEX code to HSL and you can create lighter, darker and hover variants by changing one number. A practical guide with a full shade scale.
Tool GuideColorCSSTheming🎨HEX to RGB in CSS: Adding Transparency to Brand Colors
Why developers convert HEX to RGB, how to add transparency with rgb() and 8-digit HEX, and a reusable CSS variable pattern for see-through brand colors.
Tool GuideColorCSSWeb Development↔️How CSS Flexbox Shares Space, Explained With a Live Playground
Learn how flex-direction, justify-content, align-items and the flex shorthand decide where boxes go, then try each one on live items and copy the CSS.
Tool GuideDeveloperCSSFlexbox🔲How Do Offset, Blur and Spread Shape a CSS Box Shadow?
What each of the four box-shadow lengths does, why layered low-opacity shadows look real, and how to put a shadow on one side only.
Tool GuideDeveloperCSSWeb Design⬭How Does border-radius Make Pills, Circles and Blobs?
How the border-radius shorthand assigns corners, what the slash does, why 50% makes a circle and 9999px a pill, and how blob shapes are built.
Tool GuideDeveloperCSSWeb Design✂️How to Cut Any Shape With CSS clip-path Polygons
How clip-path polygon(), circle(), ellipse() and inset() define a visible region, how the percentages work, and how a five-point star is plotted.
Tool GuideDeveloperCSSWeb Design🏷️How to Find the Name of a Color From Its HEX Code
Why most colors have no exact name, how CIEDE2000 picks the closest one, and what the distance number tells you about how good the match really is.
Tool GuideColorCSSDesign🌈How to Make a Mesh Gradient in CSS Without Any Image File
CSS has no mesh gradient, but stacked radial-gradient() layers come close. See how the layers work, with the exact code for an aurora background.
Tool GuideColorCSSGradients🎨How to Unminify CSS and Debug a Production Stylesheet
A walkthrough for tracking down a style override in minified production CSS: beautify it, find the rule, understand the cascade, and fix it at the source.
Tool GuideDeveloperCSSDebugging🎨HSL to RGB: Why Same Lightness Doesn't Mean Same Contrast
Pure yellow and pure blue share 50% HSL lightness yet differ eightfold in contrast with white. Why converting HSL to RGB matters for accessible colors.
Tool GuideColorAccessibilityCSS📏rem, em, vw or px? What Each CSS Unit Is Really Relative To
How browsers turn rem, em, %, vw, vh, ch and pt into pixels, with one length converted every way and a box sized in viewport units.
Tool GuideDeveloperCSSWeb Design🎨RGB to HEX for Design Handoff: Getting Colors Into Code
Turning a designer's RGB values into HEX codes for CSS and style guides, with the conversion math, a handoff checklist and the rounding issues to watch for.
Tool GuideColorDesign HandoffCSS🔤What Font Size, Line Height and Line Length Read Best?
Practical starting values for body text size, line height, letter spacing and line length, plus how WCAG contrast thresholds change for large text.
Tool GuideDeveloperTypographyCSS🎯Why Does My CSS Rule Lose? Specificity Scores Explained
How browsers score selectors as (a, b, c), how :is(), :not(), :has() and :where() count under Selectors Level 4, and how ties are broken.
Tool GuideDeveloperCSSFront End🧰A Browser Toolbox for Debugging an API and Shipping UI
Inspect JSON and JWTs, test a regex, turn a request into cURL or fetch, check URLs, cron, hashes and UUIDs, then polish shadows and CSS specificity.
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