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We all know how to do responsive design, right? We use media queries. Well no, we use container queries now, don’t we? Sometimes we get inventive with flexbox or autoflowing grids. If we’re feeling really adventurous we can reach for fluid typography.

I’m a bit uncomfortable that responsive design is often pushed into discreet chunks, like “layout A up to this size, then layout B until there’s enough space for layout C.” It’s OK, it works and fits into a workflow where screens are designed as static layouts in PhotoFigVa (caveat, I made that up). But the process feels like a compromise to me. I’ve long believed that responsive design should be almost invisible to the user. When they visit my site on a mobile device while waiting in line for K-Pop tickets, they shouldn’t notice that it’s different from just an hour ago, sitting at the huge curved gaming monitor they persuaded their boss they needed.

Consider this simple hero banner and its mobile equivalent. Sorry for the unsophisticated design. The image is AI generated, but It’s the only thing about this article that is.

The meerkat and the text are all positioned and sized differently. The traditional way to pull this off is to have two layouts, selected by a media, sorry, container query. There might be some flexibility in each layout, perhaps centering the content, and a little fluid typography on the font-size, but we’re going to choose a point at which we flip the layout in and out of the stacked version. As a result, there are likely to be widths near the breakpoint where the layout looks either a little empty or a little congested.

Is there another way?

It turns out there is. We can apply the concept of fluid typography to almost anything. This way we can have a layout that fluidly changes with the size of its parent container. Few users will ever see the transition, but they will all appreciate the results. Honestly, they will.

Let’s get this styled up

For the first step, let’s style the layouts individually, a little like we would when using width queries and a breakpoint. In fact, let’s use a container query and a breakpoint together so that we can easily see what properties need to change.

This is the markup for our hero, and it won’t change:

<div id="hero">
  <div class="details">
    <h1>LookOut</h1>
    <p>Eagle Defense System</p>
  </div>
</div>

This is the relevant CSS for the wide version:

#hero {
  container-type: inline-size;
  max-width: 1200px;
  min-width: 360px;

  .details {
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 2;

    top: 220px;
    left: 565px;

    h1 { font-size: 5rem; }

    p { font-size: 2.5rem; }
  }

  &::before {
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1;

    top: 0; left: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0;

    background-image: url(../meerkat.jpg);
    background-origin: content-box;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;

    background-position-x: 0;
    background-position-y: 0;
    background-size: auto 589px;
  }
}

I’ve attached the background image to a ::before pseudo-element so I can use container queries on it (because containers cannot query themselves). We’ll keep this later on so that we can use inline container query (cqi) units. For now, here’s the container query that just shows the values we’re going to make fluid:

@container (max-width: 800px) {
  #hero {
    .details {
      top: 50px;
      left: 20px;

      h1 { font-size: 3.5rem; }

      p { font-size: 2rem; }
    }

    &::before {
      background-position-x: -310px;
      background-position-y: -25px;
      background-size: auto 710px;
    }
  }
}

You can see the code running in a live demo — it’s entirely static to show the limitations of a typical approach.

Let’s get fluid

Now we can take those start and end points for the size and position of both the text and background and make them fluid. The text size uses fluid typography in a way you are already familiar with. Here’s the result — I’ll explain the expressions once you’ve looked at the code.

First the changes to the position and size of the text:

/* Line changes
 * -12,27 +12,32
 */
  
.details {
  /* ... lines 14-16 unchanged */
  /* Evaluates to 50px for a 360px wide container, and 220px for 1200px */
  top: clamp(50px, 20.238cqi - 22.857px, 220px);

  /* Evaluates to 20px for a 360px wide container, and 565px for 1200px */
  left: clamp(20px, 64.881cqi - 213.571px, 565px);
  
  /* ... lines 20-25 unchanged */
  h1 {
    /* Evaluates to 3.5rem for a 360px wide container, and 5rem for 1200px */
    font-size: clamp(3.5rem, 2.857rem + 2.857cqi, 5rem);
    /* ... font-weight unchanged */

  }

  p {
    /* Evaluates to 2rem for a 360px wide container, and 2.5rem for 1200px */
    font-size: clamp(2rem, 1.786rem + 0.952cqi, 2.5rem);
  }
}

And here’s the background position and size for the meerkat image:

/* Line changes
 * -50,3 +55,8
 */

/* Evaluates to -310px for a 360px wide container, and 0px for 1200px */
background-position-x: clamp(-310px, 36.905cqi - 442.857px, 0px);
/* Evaluates to -25px for a 360px wide container, and 0px for 1200px */
background-position-y: clamp(-25px, 2.976cqi);
/* Evaluates to 710px for a 360px wide container, and 589px for 1200px */
background-size: auto clamp(589px, 761.857px - 14.405cqi, 710px);

Now we can drop the container query entirely.

Let’s explain those clamp() expressions. We’ll start with the expression for the top property.

/* Evaluates to 50px for a 360px wide container, and 220px for 1200px */
top: clamp(50px, 20.238cqi - 22.857px, 220px);

You’ll have noticed there’s a comment there. These expressions are a good example of how magic numbers are a bad thing. But we can’t avoid them here, as they are the result of solving some simultaneous equations — which CSS cannot do!

The upper and lower bounds passed to clamp() are clear enough, but the expression in the middle comes from these simultaneous equations:

f + 12v = 220
f + 3.6v = 50

…where f is the number of fixed-size length units (i.e., px) and v is the variable-sized unit (cqi). In the first equation, we are saying that we want the expression to evaluate to 220px when 1cqi is equal to 12px. In the second equation, we’re saying we want 50px when 1cqi is 3.6px, which solves to:

f = -22.857
v = 20.238

…and this tidies up to 20.238cqi – 22.857px in a calc()-friendly expression.

When the fixed unit is different, we must change the size of the variable units accordingly. So for the <h1> element’s font-size we have;

/* Evaluates to 2rem for a 360px wide container, and 2.5rem for 1200px */
font-size: clamp(2rem, 1.786rem + 0.952cqi, 2.5rem);

This is solving these equations because, at a container width of 1200px, 1cqi is the same as 0.75rem (my rems are relative to the default UA stylesheet, 16px), and at 360px wide, 1cqi is 0.225rem.

f + 0.75v = 2.5
f + 0.225v = 2

This is important to note: The equations are different depending on what unit you are targeting.

Honestly, this is boring math to do every time, so I made a calculator you can use. Not only does it solve the equations for you (to three decimal places to keep your CSS clean) it also provides that helpful comment to use alongside the expression so that you can see where they came from and avoid magic numbers. Feel free to use it. Yes, there are many similar calculators out there, but they concentrate on typography, and so (rightly) fixate on rem units. You could probably port the JavaScript if you’re using a CSS preprocessor.

The clamp() function isn’t strictly necessary at this point. In each case, the bounds of clamp() are set to the values of when the container is either 360px or 1200px wide. Since the container itself is constrained to those limits — by setting min-width and max-width values — the clamp() expression should never invoke either bound. However, I prefer to keep clamp() there in case we ever change our minds (which we are about to do) because implicit bounds like these are difficult to spot and maintain.

Avoiding injury

We could consider our work finished, but we aren’t. The layout still doesn’t quite work. The text passes right over the top of the meerkat’s head. While I have been assured this causes the meerkat no harm, I don’t like the look of it. So, let’s make some changes to make the text avoid hitting the meerkat.

The first is simple. We’ll move the meerkat to the left more quickly so that it gets out of the way. This is done most easily by changing the lower end of the interpolation to a wider container. We’ll set it so that the meerkat is fully left by 450px rather than down to 360px. There’s no reason the start and end points for all of our fluid expressions need to align with the same widths, so we can keep the other expressions fluid down to 360px.

Using my trusty calculator, all we need to do is change the clamp() expressions for the background-position properties:

/* Line changes
 * -55,5 +55,5
 */

/* Evaluates to -310px for a 450px wide container, and 0px for 1200px */
background-position-x: clamp(-310px, 41.333cqi - 496px, 0px);

/* Evaluates to -25px for a 450px wide container, and 0px for 1200px */
background-position-y: clamp(-25px, 3.333cqi - 40px, 0px);

This improves things, but not totally. I don’t want to move it any quicker, so next we’ll look at the path the text takes. At the moment it moves in a straight line, like this:

But can we bend it? Yes, we can.

A Bend in the path

One way we can do this is by defining two different interpolations for the top coordinate that places the line at different angles and then choosing the smallest one. This way, it allows the steeper line to “win” at larger container widths, and the shallower line becomes the value that wins when the container is narrower than about 780px. The result is a line with a bend that misses the meerkat.

All we’re changing is the top value, but we must calculate two intermediate values first:

/* Line changes
 * -18,2 +18,9 @@
 */

/* Evaluates to 220px for a 1200px wide container, and -50px for 360px */
--top-a: calc(32.143cqi - 165.714px);

/* Evaluates to 120px for a 1200px wide container, and 50px for 360px */
--top-b: calc(20px + 8.333cqi);

/* By taking the max, --topA is used at lower widths, with --topB taking over when wider.
We only need to apply clamp when the value is actually used */
top: clamp(50px, max(var(--top-a), var(--top-b)), 220px);

For these values, rather than calculating them formally using a carefully chosen midpoint, I experimented with the endpoints until I got the result I wanted. Experimentation is just as valid as calculation as a way of getting the result you need. In this case, I started with duplicates of the interpolation in custom variables. I could have split the path into explicit sections using a container query, but that doesn’t reduce the math overhead, and using the min() function is cleaner to my eye. Besides, this article isn’t strictly about container queries, is it?

Now the text moves along this path. Open up the live demo to see it in action.

CSS can’t do everything

As a final note on the calculations, it’s worth pointing out that there are restrictions as far as what we can and can’t do. The first, which we have already mitigated a little, is that these interpolations are linear. This means that easing in or out, or other complex behavior, is not possible.

Another major restriction is that CSS can only generate length values this way, so there is no way in pure CSS to apply, for example, opacity or a rotation angle that is fluid based on the container or viewport size. Preprocessors can’t help us here either because the limitation is on the way calc() works in the browser.

Both of these restrictions can be lifted if you’re prepared to rely on a little JavaScript. A few lines to observe the width of the container and set a CSS custom property that is unitless is all that’s needed. I’m going to use that to make the text follow a quadratic Bezier curve, like this:

There’s too much code to list here, and too much math to explain the Bezier curve, but go take a look at it in action in this live demo.

We wouldn’t even need JavaScript if expressions like calc(1vw / 1px) didn’t fail in CSS. There is no reason for them to fail since they represent a ratio between two lengths. Just as there are 2.54cm in 1in, there are 8px in 1vw when the viewport is 800px wide, so calc(1vw / 1px) should evaluate to a unitless 8 value.

They do fail though, so all we can do is state our case and move on.

Fluid everything doesn’t solve all layouts

There will always be some layouts that need size queries, of course; some designs will simply need to snap changes at fixed breakpoints. There is no reason to avoid that if it’s right. There is also no reason to avoid mixing the two, for example, by fluidly sizing and positioning the background while using a query to snap between grid definitions for the text placement. My meerkat example is deliberately contrived to be simple for the sake of demonstration.

One thing I’ll add is that I’m rather excited by the possibility of using the new Anchor Positioning API for fluid positioning. There’s the possibility of using anchor positioning to define how two elements might flow around the screen together, but that’s for another time.

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The main purpose of a portfolio is to show off your skills and experience. Usually, it’s done by showing examples of your work. But, when it comes to portfolio presentations, you need to think about the design of the slideshow as well.

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We handpicked a collection of PowerPoint portfolio templates to help you find the perfect design for your presentation. There are designs to cover all types of portfolio presentations from creative agency portfolios to fashion lookbooks and more.

Have a look. There are a few free templates on the list too.

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If you’re craving that classic typewriter charm for your next project, you’re in luck! Whether you’re designing a vintage-themed flyer, adding a touch of nostalgia to a personal letter, or simply exploring new fonts, typewriter fonts deliver a unique character that’s hard to beat. There’s just something about the slightly uneven, mechanical feel of these fonts that brings text to life in a way that’s both retro and authentic.

These free typewriter fonts come in handy for a range of creative ideas. Want to capture the essence of old-school journalism, detective novels, or WWII-era telegrams? Or maybe you’re looking for a quirky, DIY vibe for a zine or blog? The right typewriter font can give your work that distinctive edge without the expense of specialty typography.

What Font Do Typewriters Use?

The original typewriters, especially vintage ones, usually featured monospaced fonts where each character occupied the same width. This classic look is captured in fonts like Courier and American Typewriter, but with today’s digital tools, the options are nearly endless. While some modern fonts mimic this exact spacing, others take creative liberties, adding a touch of elegance, roughness, or even a worn texture for that extra bit of personality.

This collection is hand-picked to include the very best typewriter-inspired fonts that are completely free. So, if you’re ready to elevate your designs with an authentic, old-school feel, dive into our list of free typewriter fonts that capture the mechanical beauty of yesteryear.

X Typewriter Monospaced Font

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We’ve all had that moment. You’re optimizing the performance of some website, scrutinizing every millisecond it takes for the current page to load. You’ve fired up Google Lighthouse from Chrome’s DevTools because everyone and their uncle uses it to evaluate performance.

After running your 151st report and completing all of the recommended improvements, you experience nirvana: a perfect 100% performance score!

Time to pat yourself on the back for a job well done. Maybe you can use this to get that pay raise you’ve been wanting! Except, don’t — at least not using Google Lighthouse as your sole proof. I know a perfect score produces all kinds of good feelings. That’s what we’re aiming for, after all!

Google Lighthouse is merely one tool in a complete performance toolkit. What it’s not is a complete picture of how your website performs in the real world. Sure, we can glean plenty of insights about a site’s performance and even spot issues that ought to be addressed to speed things up. But again, it’s an incomplete picture.

I hear other developers boasting about perfect Lighthouse scores and see the screenshots published all over socials. Hey, I just did that myself in the introduction of this article!

Lighthouse might be the most widely used web performance reporting tool. I’d wager its ubiquity is due to convenience more than the quality of its reports.

Open DevTools, click the Lighthouse tab, and generate the report! There are even many ways we can configure Lighthouse to measure performance in simulated situations, such as slow internet connection speeds or creating separate reports for mobile and desktop. It’s a very powerful tool for something that comes baked into a free browser. It’s also baked right into Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool!

And it’s fast. Run a report in Lighthouse, and you’ll get something back in about 10-15 seconds. Try running reports with other tools, and you’ll find yourself refilling your coffee, hitting the bathroom, and maybe checking your email (in varying order) while waiting for the results. There’s a good reason for that, but all I want to call out is that Google Lighthouse is lightning fast as far as performance reporting goes.

To recap: Lighthouse is great at many things!

• It’s convenient to access,
• It provides a good deal of configuration for different levels of troubleshooting,
• And it spits out reports in record time.

And what about that bright and lovely animated green score — who doesn’t love that?!

OK, that’s the rosy side of Lighthouse reports. It’s only fair to highlight its limitations as well. This isn’t to dissuade you or anyone else from using Lighthouse, but more of a heads-up that your score may not perfectly reflect reality — or even match the scores you’d get in other tools, including Google’s own PageSpeed Insights.

Not all data is created equal in capital Web Performance. It’s important to know this because data represents assumptions that reporting tools make when evaluating performance metrics.

The data Lighthouse relies on for its reporting is called simulated data. You might already have a solid guess at what that means: it’s synthetic data. Now, before kicking simulated data in the knees for not being “real” data, know that it’s the reason Lighthouse is super fast.

You know how there’s a setting to “throttle” the internet connection speed? That simulates different conditions that either slow down or speed up the connection speed, something that you configure directly in Lighthouse. By default, Lighthouse collects data on a fast connection, but we can configure it to something slower to gain insights on slow page loads. But beware! Lighthouse then estimates how quickly the page would have loaded on a different connection.

DebugBear founder Matt Zeunert outlines how data runs in a simulated throttling environment, explaining how Lighthouse uses “optimistic” and “pessimistic” averages for making conclusions:

“[Simulated throttling] reduces variability between tests. But if there’s a single slow render-blocking request that shares an origin with several fast responses, then Lighthouse will underestimate page load time.

Lighthouse averages optimistic and pessimistic estimates when it’s unsure exactly which nodes block rendering. In practice, metrics may be closer to either one of these, depending on which dependency graph is more correct.”

And again, the environment is a configuration, not reality. It’s unlikely that your throttled conditions match the connection speeds of an average real user on the website, as they may have a faster network connection or run on a slower CPU. What Lighthouse provides is more like “on-demand” testing that’s immediately available.

That makes simulated data great for running tests quickly and under certain artificially sweetened conditions. However, it sacrifices accuracy by making assumptions about the connection speeds of site visitors and averages things in a way that divorces it from reality.

While simulated throttling is the default in Lighthouse, it also supports more realistic throttling methods. Running those tests will take more time but give you more accurate data. The easiest way to run Lighthouse with more realistic settings is using an online tool like the DebugBear website speed test or WebPageTest.

These Core Web Vitals everyone talks about are Google’s standard metrics for measuring performance. They go beyond simple “Your page loaded in X seconds” reports by looking at a slew of more pertinent details that are diagnostic of how the page loads, resources that might be blocking other resources, slow user interactions, and how much the page shifts around from loading resources and content. Zeunert has another great post here on Smashing Magazine that discusses each metric in detail.

The main point here is that the simulated data Lighthouse produces may (and often does) differ from performance metrics from other tools. I spent a good deal explaining this in another article. The gist of it is that Lighthouse scores do not impact Core Web Vitals data. The reason for that is Core Web Vitals relies on data about real users pulled from the monthly-updated Chrome User Experience (CrUX) report. While CrUX data may be limited by how recently the data was pulled, it is a more accurate reflection of user behaviors and browsing conditions than the simulated data in Lighthouse.

The ultimate point I’m getting at is that Lighthouse is simply ineffective at measuring Core Web Vitals performance metrics. Here’s how I explain it in my bespoke article:

“[Synthetic] data is fundamentally limited by the fact that it only looks at a single experience in a pre-defined environment. This environment often doesn’t even match the average real user on the website, who may have a faster network connection or a slower CPU.”

I emphasized the important part. In real life, users are likely to have more than one experience on a particular page. It’s not as though you navigate to a site, let it load, sit there, and then close the page; you’re more likely to do something on that page. And for a Core Web Vital metric that looks for slow paint in response to user input — namely, Interaction to Next Paint (INP) — there’s no way for Lighthouse to measure that at all!

It’s the same deal for a metric like Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) that measures the “visible stability” of a page layout because layout shifts often happen lower on the page after a user has scrolled down. If Lighthouse relied on CrUX data (which it doesn’t), then it would be able to make assumptions based on real users who interact with the page and can experience CLS. Instead, Lighthouse waits patiently for the full page load and never interacts with parts of the page, thus having no way of knowing anything about CLS.

That’s what I want you to walk away with at the end of the day. A Lighthouse report is incredibly good at producing reports quickly, thanks to the simulated data it uses. In that sense, I’d say that Lighthouse is a handy “gut check” and maybe even a first step to identifying opportunities to optimize performance.

But a complete picture, it’s not. For that, what we’d want is a tool that leans on real user data. Tools that integrate CrUX data are pretty good there. But again, that data is pulled every month (28 days to be exact) so it may not reflect the most recent user behaviors and interactions, although it is updated daily on a rolling basis and it is indeed possible to query historical records for larger sample sizes.

Even better is using a tool that monitors users in real-time.

Data pulled directly from the site of origin is truly the gold standard data we want because it comes from the source of truth. That makes tools that integrate with your site the best way to gain insights and diagnose issues because they tell you exactly how your visitors are experiencing your site.

I’ve written about using the Performance API in JavaScript to evaluate custom and Core Web Vitals metrics, so it’s possible to roll that on your own. But there are plenty of existing services out there that do this for you, complete with visualizations, historical records, and true real-time user monitoring (often abbreviated as RUM). What services? Well, DebugBear is a great place to start. I cited Matt Zeunert earlier, and DebugBear is his product.

So, if what you want is a complete picture of your site’s performance, go ahead and start with Lighthouse. But don’t stop there because you’re only seeing part of the picture. You’ll want to augment your findings and diagnose performance with real-user monitoring for the most complete, accurate picture.

The average life of a website is three years. And design elements – such as color and typography – often get updated more frequently than that. That’s why it is so important to keep up with web design trends.

Doing this allows you to make small tweaks to your design today so that it won’t be out of date tomorrow.

This guide will help you create an on-point design plan all year long, incorporating some of the best trends for 2025.

1. AI-Assisted Web Design

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI have made huge impacts in every industry, including web design. Soon, AI-powered tools will take a big role in your web design process and change the way you design websites.

Many website builders already utilize innovative AI-powered features. Platforms like Wix and Framer allow users to create entire websites by entering simple prompts. Divi has also integrated AI tools into its WordPress website builder, which allows you to generate images, text, and even modules using AI.

Even if you don’t use website builders in the process, you will (eventually) be using AI tools to make your work more effortless. ChatGPT will help write copy for your websites and Midjourney will help generate unique art, icons, and illustrations for the site design.

Surely, we will see more AI-generated art across many different types of websites as well as AI-made videos, animations, interactive elements, and much more throughout this year.

2. 3D Experiences

Websites are no longer just about sharing information or promoting a business, they are also about delivering an immersive and memorable experience to each and every visitor.

Many big brands are now investing heavily in building websites with immersive 3D experiences that allow users to experience their shops, products, and services in a more virtual-like environment.

These new 3D web experiences have two major benefits. First, they make websites much more memorable for the users. Visitors are more likely to remember such websites for a long time and share it with friends and family.

The second benefit is giving users a more interactive feel of the business and its products. IKEA’s new Favoritos 3D Store website and Puma’s product landing page for Deviate Nitro 2 are great examples that show how brands are leveraging 3D and interactive web designs to their advantage.

This year, the websites that utilize 3D experiences will have a good advantage over the traditional static websites. And it will especially give brands and businesses a competitive edge.

3. Retro and Nostalgic Designs

Soon, AI art and 3D websites will be everywhere. All these new design trends and technologies will also have people craving a dose of nostalgia and the good old days.

This offers a great opportunity for designers to craft websites with classic nostalgic website layouts, like from the early 2000s. As well as to take inspiration from designs from the early 90s to create websites that transport visitors back to much simpler times. While also integrating modern design trends, of course.

This style of retro-themed web design will be a popular trend this year and it will create a healthy balance in the industry to avoid filling the entire web with AI-generated websites.

4. Better Web Accessibility With AI

Many designers have mixed feelings about the impact of AI in the industry. But, if there’s one thing we can all agree on, is how AI will help improve web accessibility.

Unfortunately, making websites more accessible to disabled people is still a struggle. The adoption rate of accessibility features by business websites is still low and some aren’t even aware of the laws related to accessibility. Surely, things will improve with the help of AI.

Platforms like AccessiBe are already using AI and machine learning to improve their web accessibility tools. And have introduced AI-powered screen readers and keyboard navigation tools to improve websites and make them more accessible to everyone.

We can only imagine how big of an impact AI will have on web accessibility. Hopefully, soon, AI-powered browsers will automatically optimize websites according to a user’s needs. Or even have AI assistants for websites to help guide users with disabilities.

5. Illustrative Storytelling

Over the years, websites slowly evolved from being a hub of information to mediums for telling stories. Today, many brands and businesses use websites to offer more memorable experiences to users and storytelling takes a key role in that process.

Storytelling in websites is nothing new but we’ve been seeing a new trend in web design that uses illustrations to tell stories that are able to connect with the audience on a much deeper level.

These illustrations are most useful in creating the scene to present big stories while allowing you to capture and maintain the attention of the user.

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. And that same rule applies to this trend as well as it helps to convey sophisticated ideas, messages, and concepts in a much more accessible way.

6. Innovative Content Loaders

Back in the day, we used to hate pre-loading screens. Staring at that same old boring spinning circle while waiting for a website to load was a true test of patience and was also a big reason for leaving a website before it even fully loaded.

Well, those content loaders are making a comeback, but in a good way. Many websites have been utilizing these website pre-loaders, or content loaders, as a way to arouse interest in the visitor.

By ditching the basic spinning circle design and replacing it with more innovative and creative content-loading screens, these websites make the wait more exciting. In fact, these unique content loaders give a unique and memorable identity to websites as well.

7. Gamified Experiences

Gamification has long been a part of website design. Most websites incorporate micro-interactions and animations as a way to keep the visitors hooked on exploring more of the website. However, web designers are now going far beyond those elements to create more attractive gamified experiences through websites.

A great example is the Dubai, Always website developed by the Department of Economy and Tourism in Dubai. Instead of using the traditional travel-themed website layout with a bunch of links and images, this website has created a gamified experience that encourages visitors to explore the tourist activities available in Dubai just like playing a point-and-click video game.

While this strategy may not work for all types of websites, it shows how relevant a website can be in offering not just information but an engaging experience to users.

8. Soft Colors

We went through many different design styles and color schemes over the years, starting with flat design colors to gradients, bright neon colors, and material design. The latest trend to join this lineup is the soft pastel colors.

Using soft colors is not just about creating designs that are easy on the eyes. These soft colors also have a big impact on offering soothing experiences that evoke emotions. Whether it’s to convey a sense of calmness, growth, sadness, or even romance, these soft colors are much more effective at influencing the user’s mind.

Lately, we’ve been seeing many small businesses and even big brand websites switch over to these new soft and pastel color schemes. And it will likely be a popular choice in web design this year.

9. Trippy Animations

Website animations have evolved beyond simple transitions and hover effects into much bigger and more creative forms of engagement. Much like staring at an animated GIF, these unique animations make users stop and stare to experience something new and different.

The Panelki website is a great example of this new style of trippy and mind-bending animations on web design. When you click on a button on this website, a huge boulder swings across and smashes into the building. And then it offers an option for you to rebuild the structure, which also prompts another cool animation.

Another example is the JUNNI Corporate website. It has some of the most unique hover and scroll animations we’ve seen, which almost feels like a hallucination.

It’s inspiring to see web designers and developers coming up with these unique styles of animations and effects to create more engaging experiences for users.

10. Engaging Interactive Elements

Recent studies have found that users spend about 45 seconds on a website on average. But with the many distractions in the digital realm, the attention span of people seems to be dropping to all-time lows. This makes it much more of a challenge to maintain the attention and engagement of users on a website.

One of the effective ways designers are tackling this problem is by including more interactive elements on websites. With interactive elements, users are encouraged to engage and interact with parts of the website in order to explore more. This makes browsing a website feel like an activity that users can participate in, rather than having to mindlessly scroll down on a page.

While it’s not always the ideal approach for designing websites, making websites more interactive is the best way to help users learn and consume information more effectively. The fire safety awareness website, Escape Plan is a great example of that.

11. Dynamic Layouts

For many years, website designs were made with specific guidelines and rules in mind. Almost every website used grids or columns to keep content structured and organized by dividing them into left and right sides.

This traditional method of website layout design is evolving and turning into more dynamic layouts. We saw this change slowly happening over the last year and soon this will be the norm for website design.

With dynamic layouts, content is spread across the page rather than neatly stacked into strict grids or columns. This greatly enhances the user experience by giving them the freedom to explore the website on their own terms.

12. Neon Glows

Neon glowing backgrounds are making a comeback. Even though it’s not an entirely new trend, we saw many new websites adopting this trend, especially to make headers look more colorful and attractive.

Adding a neon glowing effect is a great way to fill the background of a website header while also creating a strong contrast between the text and the background.

Some designers took this even further to create cool interactions and animations using neon glowing effects.

13. Intricate Illustrations

If you want to add an artistic or more personal touch to your website design, this is the trend for you. Intricate illustrations add a level of detail and authenticity to website designs that connect with users immediately.

These designs can be beautiful, engaging, and time-consuming to create because they often contain fine lines, hidden details, gradients, patterns, or massive scenes.

We like this design trend as a full site aesthetic, but it can be used for a single image, iconography, or even team photos. What’s interesting is that styles can vary widely with one commonality – the illustrations contain a superior level of detail.

Other things you might see with this design trend include color, texture, elements of realism, busy scenes, cartoonish look and style, and minimal animation.

Try it: Coffee Shop Vector Illustration

14. Creative Scroll Arrows

Scrolling is something that’s here to stay. So why not make your scroll arrows and instructions more fun and creative?

There are no distinct rules to follow here – just have fun and be creative! The more interesting your scroll arrow and animation, the more likely it is to generate engagement. Common design elements and effects include animations, colors, shapes, and other elements that tie the arrow to the rest of the design while helping direct users.

Think about connecting hover states to arrows as well for an even deeper element of engagement.

Try it: Handdrawn Arrows Collection

15. Risograph Style Backgrounds

From double exposures to other print-inspired backgrounds, the Risograph style is making a mark on website design. These backgrounds are rich and deep in color and textures with charming imperfections and plenty of experimentation.

Color is a key design element in this trend and the emergence of Risograph styles likely emerged from some of the color trends of late. The color palette in the riso style is often rather limited and might even be reminiscent of a duotone or include a dot grain or halftone effect.

The part of this trend that might be most interesting – and charming – is that these backgrounds often include plenty of minor imperfections in the design. This might include elements that look hand-drawn or lines and elements that don’t quite finish or match others in the background.

Try it: Risograph Double Exposure Effect

16. Type Only Heroes

When you don’t have the perfect image or video, beautiful typography can steal the show. This design trend focuses on amazing typography pairs and sets to help propel designs forward.

With just text elements and maybe some color-blocking in the hero area, these projects focus on what people need to take away immediately from the design.

A combination of beautiful lettering styles and a secondary typeface to pull it all together are important to make this trend work. Everything needs to be highly readable and the typefaces need to have a distinct flair without being overwhelming.

Look for a personality-filled sans serif or a readable novelty option and pair it with something neutral for the most impact.

Try it: Causten Font Family

17. Cinema-Style Homepage

On the other end of the design spectrum are cinema-style homepages which feature full-screen video stories and little else.

This style of design makes the user feel like they are part of the video and immersed in the scene at hand. Other elements – from text elements to navigation – are often minimalized and tucked into the corners of the screen to give plenty of room to the video.

Here’s the other thing that many of these projects have in common: They use cinema-style effects as well, such as slow motion (as seen above), vignettes, or other effects that often feel unique to video or movies.

Try it: Slow Beats Slides Opener

18. Light/Dark Mode Toggle

The ability to toggle between dark mode and light mode is an in-demand feature you might not know you need. Users love to be able to control the core visual base of a website or app, and most phones allow for this. Adding a toggle to your website only enhances that user experience.

Remember that when it comes to light and dark mode, just switching from black to white or vice versa isn’t enough. Your design scheme should contain palettes for both modes.

You can learn more about how to design for dark mode here.

Try it: Fitness Statistics Mobile App Kit

19. Modern Split Screens

Split-screen design is a trend that keeps going … and evolving.

What’s great about modern split screens is that they provide more interactivity and encourage engagement. The example above is a great look at how to use this design aesthetic with plenty of interactive elements that have video-esque and three-dimensional elements to them.

The trick to making this trend work is to make it your own. Split screens can provide this-or-that interaction choices for users or simply provide a bit of visual balance between text and image elements.

Try it: Split IOS UI Kit

20. Off-Screen Elements

Sometimes what makes a design interesting is what you can’t see.

The off-screen elements trend plays on this idea with moving graphics, text, or other elements that seem to move right off the screen. Motion can happen on its own or as a result of hover or scroll interactions.

What’s great about this trend is that it encourages website visitors to look at the design and think about what they are seeing and what it means. Conversely, if there is too much happening the message can be lost. So this trend works best with simple elements that are easily understood.

Try it: Lewis-Creative Portfolio & Agency HTML Template

21. Experimental Typefaces

New, different, funky, and unique typefaces can push a design to the next level. With more projects using a visual pattern with a focus on typography, experimental typefaces are a must-have design tool.

The key characteristic of experimental typefaces is that they are different. Some may even be unfinished designs that typographer release early or can be custom-created.

You may see shapes and lines that you couldn’t expect, three-dimensional fonts, animation or color, and a feel that’s quite different. Experimental fonts work best for large, hero headlines on homepages. They aren’t often suited for body text or smaller copy blocks.

Try it: Exa Metline Font

22. Overlapping Design Elements

Every design element does not have to have its own container. They can overlap.

Overlapping design elements creates depth and dimension as well as provides an eye-tracking path from one element to the next in design projects.

Here’s the catch to this design trend: You have to create and layer elements in such a way that everything remains readable and “collapses” in a way that maintains that readability on mobile devices. Otherwise, this trend can fall flat fast.

Try it: Tourist Guide Card Widget

23. Super Minimal Aesthetics

A clean homepage can help drive users to explore the rest of the design. Super minimal aesthetics, particularly for homepages, are a majorly trending style.

Options range from flat backgrounds with text, such as the example featured above, to photo or video homepages with almost no navigation and just a headline.

These super minimal aesthetics strip almost everything out of the design. The trendy look is streamlined and clean but you are taking a risk with so few interactive options.

Try it: Vinero Very Clean and Minimal Portfolio WordPress Theme

24. Typography Featuring Fills and Outlines

Combinations of filled and outline typography (often in the same typeface) are in full effect.

The trend features typography duos with and without interactive features. The website above, for example, uses filled text as a hover state to cue users that the element is clickable. Outline states are for non-hover elements.

The results are super interesting and create a fun typographic effect that you can use in plenty of different ways. Plus, it makes font pairing a breeze since you are using one font two different ways.

Try it: Visia Duo (Natural and Outline) Typeface

25. So Many Serifs

Serif typography – which was once deemed “unreadable” on the web – is popping up everywhere. From short, simple serifs to elaborate lettering with longer strokes and tails, this type is designed to be read.

The biggest contributor to this trend might be high-resolution screens (and their dominance in the marketplace). There’s no blur or distortion with these typefaces.

Serifs of almost any style can work beautifully, including modern and transitional styles to slabs. Serifs are appropriate for display text as well as body copy.

Try this: Aaron Serif Font Family

26. Exaggerated White Space

Minimal styles are getting even more minimal with exaggerated white space in designs.

One reason that white space is so popular is that it can help bring focus to a certain part of the design – the space occupied by something, rather than nothing.

White space also has a beautiful, classic feel that’s easy to adjust for any number of projects.

27. Micro-Animations

Thanks to all those cool little gifs on Instagram stories, websites are featuring more micro-animations in form of sticker-style gifs.

Even websites that you wouldn’t expect, such as the e-commerce design above, are using this style to draw user attention. It can be anything from tiny images popping up on the screen to moving text elements.

Try it: Simple Text Rotator WordPress Plugin

28. Video Everything

If you aren’t using video in website design projects already, this is the year it will probably happen. Video content is huge. And it’s becoming more accessible all the time.

From moving backgrounds, above, the video stories that are the content driving the design, this type of storytelling is the wave of the future. Users like it. There’s no denying that. And for that reason, it will just keep growing in popularity.

Try it: Photo/Video Slideshow Template

Conclusion

How often are you making small changes to your website design to stay fresh? While it can be an intimidating idea, making small changes all the time actually becomes part of your routine and can help keep the design feeling fresh. (It can also keep you from getting bored by it so quickly.)

Speed up the process with design tools, such as the ones featured in this article, so that you can stay on-trend without worry!

Is learning the basics of web design still on your “someday” list? Why haven’t you got started yet? We’ve put together 30 tips and resources to help you start learning web design this month (and maybe even find yourself a new career path!)

Graphic designers, print designers, and creatives looking to learn something new or break into website need to quit procrastinating. Every day that you don’t take that first step leaves you one day further behind everyone else!

Follow these steps to begin learning how to create your first website, industry best practices, and much more—all in 30 days!

1. Start a Website

The best way to start learning web design is to start doing it. That’s the advice from David Kadavy, author of Design <for> Hackers.

I recommend you start a blog. I started a blog just to have a web design playground, and 7 years later, I launched a best-selling book on the subject. Having a personal project, such as a blog, gives you a place where you can try new things, and your boss won’t fire you if you mess up.

You don’t have to start with a massive website or crazy design; start small. Play with the website, figure out what makes things work. (And make sure to inspect the code, so you can start getting familiar with what’s making your website work.)

Want to get started quickly? First, create your visual sitemap. Then, a website builder like Wix can help to give you a head start with a stylish website design, as you begin to learn the concepts and building blocks of what goes into a website.

2. Read Everything You Can

Start reading. Because you are on this blog, you’re probably used to keeping track of what’s happening in the world of design. Keep reading.

Read everything you can about website design, and trends, and techniques, and best practices. Follow designers you admire on social media.

Cast a wide net for your website design reading as well. Read about the basics to learn some code, read about design theory and read tutorials and current articles.

3. Be An Effective Communicator

If you aren’t the most articulate person, brush up on those skills. A big part of website design is communication.

Website designers have to communicate with clients regularly to figure out what problem the design needs to solve; they have to communicate those solutions and implement them as well.

4. Subscribe to Tuts+ & Envato Elements

Consider a subscription to Envato Elements, which also gets you access to the excellent Tuts+ learning resource.

Tuts+ publish regular courses on graphic and web design, from basic techniques, through to the latest advanced approaches and developments. It’s completely self-paced, taught by expert instructors. You’ll also get access to Envato Elements, which is a great resource for finding graphics, templates, and more to plug into your web design work.

5. Think in HTML

HTML, or hypertext markup language, is a cornerstone of website design. HTML is the skeleton that helps create the structure of a website and once you can read the language, the world of website design will make a lot more sense.

W3Schools has a great HTML starter tutorial with hundreds of HTML examples that you can play with on the screen to see what happens and exactly how it works. (You might find it more intuitive than you imagined.)

6. Play with Code at Codeacademy

While HTML is a good start, you can learn almost any programming language from Codeacademy. The free set of tools teaches you to code using interactive activities and games.

You can pick up a Codeacademy course where and when you need it and start and stop as needed. Pick a subject to learn – web development, programming, data science – or language to focus on – HTML & CSS (a great place to start), Python, Java, SQL, Ruby, and more.

7. Learn to Understand CSS

CSS, or cascading style sheets, define the presentation of a document written in HTML, or XML and SVG.

As defined by Mozilla

CSS describes how elements should be rendered on screen, on paper, in speech, or on other media.

Mozilla also has a great collection of CSS resources to get started, with a solid introduction of how CSS works, including selectors and properties, writing CSS rules, applying CSS to HTML, how to specify length, color, and other units in CSS, cascade and inheritance, box model basics, and debugging CSS. Then modules move on to explain styling text and boxes.

8. Apply Your Design Skills to the Web

If you are already working in a creative or graphic design field, think about the things you already know that you can apply to website design as well. The principles that make something visually appealing don’t change based on medium and all that design theory will come in handy in the digital space as well.

While elements such as learning code might not feel natural, having a design background is a huge bonus. What good is a beautifully coded website if not one wants to interact with it?

9. Pay Attention to Websites You Love

Take note of websites that you love. What about them is appealing to you? (And how can you learn to replicate those elements?) Pay attention to:

• Typography
• Navigation
• Use of images and space
• Design of forms
• Animation and scroll effects
• Color

10. Draw a Wireframe

Wireframing is a web designer’s brainstorming.

In its purest form, a wireframe is a sketch of what the website will be. It’s not an outline of aesthetic elements, rather a blueprint of the website. Drawing a wireframe isn’t really about the look of this design, it’s about the information structure therein.

Not sure how to create a wireframe? Digital Telepathy has a guide of best practices to help you learn.

11. Take Some Time to Learn Sketch

Sketch is a vector-drawing tool for Mac that makes it easy to create design elements. A lot of designers are turning to Sketch to create UI elements and repeating design blocks.

It’s packed with plugins and allows you to export code for easy use and access. It’s one of the most powerful, and popular, tools to come around since Adobe’s Creative Suite and worth your time.

12. Stay Up to Date with Technology

AI, VR, AR, 360-degree video, bots.

It can be hard to keep up with so many new technologies and trend. But you need to make a point to stay on top of these changes.

Tackle them one at a time and start with technologies that are the most directly related to the work you do. If you have a website with online chat, start by learning about bots. Or if you use a lot of video content, play around with 360-degree video.

Elements such as artificial intelligence and virtual or augmented reality are even more complex but are likely to become integrated parts of the website design landscape down the road. At a minimum, you should know what they are and what the potential uses might be.

13. Get Comfortable with SEO

While many web designers think an SEO specialist can handle getting a website ready for search engines to read, there’s a lot of design work that’s connected to SEO.

From the way images are uploaded to creating clean code that’s fast to including meta descriptions on pages and elements, the designer should incorporate search thinking into their workflow.

Freelancers, this is vitally important for you as well. Most clients are savvy enough to ask for an SEO-optimized website. If you work alone, you need to know enough to create a solid framework that Google can read (and be able to refer the client to an SEO specialist if more work needs to be done).

14. Play with a Website Builder

A website builder can be a great way to get comfortable with best practices and how to start building and designing websites.

Most of these tools have plenty of templates and allow you to customize elements and even add code snippets. For simple sites, many website builders also have a free plan where you can create a personal portfolio page or basic website that serves as a playground for you.

Then pick apart the pieces within the website builder. Look at how they are designed and coded to get a feel for how it all comes together. You’ll be amazed by what you can figure out just by picking another design apart.

15. Find a Mentor

Is there someone you work with that you admire as a web designer? Take them to lunch and pick their brain about the industry.

Finding a mentor that is willing to work with you and help you think about the field and how to learn web design on your own can be invaluable. And while you can probably find a mentor in an online community, nothing is better than a live person that you can meet face-to-face periodically. (Maybe it is worth having online and in-person mentors.)

16. Join the CodePen Community

Once you start getting comfortable with some code and programming, you want to join the CodePen community. The open-source community allows you to share and edit code snippets in a social network of sorts.

Here’s a little more from the site’s founders: “CodePen is a social development environment. At its heart, it allows you to write code in the browser, and see the results of it as you build. A useful and liberating tool for developers of any skill, and particularly empowering for people learning to code. We focus primarily on front-end languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and preprocessing syntaxes that turn into those things.”

17. Take a Class

For some learners, a more formal classroom setting is best.

There are a ton of classes available – in-person and online – for you to learn web design basics. Start with a local college or online learning hubs such as Udemy or Coursera. Pick up a class at your current ability level and just keep moving forward.

18. Want to Do Something? Google It

For the not-so-traditional-learner, find the answer to the web design problem on Google. There are so many tutorials and videos available that can walk you through almost any problem – and solution.

The key is to search exactly what you need to know and look to a reputable source for the answer. Here’s another tip when it comes to tutorials and videos – more recent content is probably going to give you a better, more complete and more relevant answer. (Remember, some of this stuff is changing fast.)

19. Pay Attention to the User Experience

Nothing can make or break a website like user experience design. You need to plan for it and understand it.

Here’s how the Interaction Design Foundation describes UX design:

User experience (UX) design is the process of creating products that provide meaningful and personally relevant experiences. This involves the careful design of both a product’s usability and the pleasure consumers will derive from using it. It is also concerned with the entire process of acquiring and integrating the product, including aspects of branding, design, usability, and function.

UX designers, or designers who are aware of the process of experience formation, seek to create and shape the factors influencing the process deliberately. To do this, a UX designer will consider the Why, What, and How of product use.

20. Pay Attention to Design Trends

What does a modern website design look like? It’s not a trick question. To design modern websites and user experiences, you need to know what users want and how they are interacting with it. If the last time you downloaded an app or looked at a website on your phone was 2016, you’ve got a lot of ground to make up.

Creating website designs that have modern touches and trends integrated into the design will help your projects stand out. How do you know what’s trending? Keep reading sites like this and pay attention to what other designers are doing. Take note of colors and styles and features that are included in the websites you visit frequently.

21. Create Without Color

Start every design without color. A great designer once told me that if your design works in black and white, it will be flawless in color.

That might not always hold, but it is a great starting point.

By creating designs in black and white, you can see where elements contrast and how they play together. You’ve stripped out any emotional associations with color or eye movement that happens because of it. This simplest form of design will give you an idea if something works as a concept before you move on to finalizing it.

22. Learn to Love Google Fonts

Google Fonts is your friend.

Regardless of how you feel about Google, the ability to browse, sort and select typefaces that you know will work in website designs is important. You don’t have to think about licensing or if typefaces are compatible with specific browsers or not.

The limitation is that you only have what’s in the Google Fonts library to work with. But if you try you can find something that will fit almost every project. It’ll save you a lot of time in the long run.

23. Pick Apart a UI Kit

Download a user interface or icon kit and pick it apart.

Just as you can inspect the code of a website, look at how design elements are constructed for the web. Take note of the scale and grid, look at the color mixes and how files are organized within Photoshop or Illustrator.

Look for a kit to download that includes elements in multiple formats for high-resolution displays. (Downloading a bunch of JPEGs isn’t going to serve you all that well.)

Then try to build or customize an element or two of your own.

24. Become a Typographer

Modern website design has a strong focus on typography … good typography. From hero headers with giant words to layers of text that draw a user into the design, understanding the principles of how to pair type elements and construct engaging text blocks is vital.

Start with Ellen Lupton’s Thinking with Type. (There’s also a book of the same name.) Lupton is the authority on typography and her information will have you thinking like a typographer in no time.

25. Jump into JavaScript

When you are starting to feel pretty good about dabbling with web design, challenge yourself again to learn JavaScript. After HTML and CSS, it is the most important language of the web.

JavaScript is a tool that allows designers to implement complex things and interaction on web pages. It’s what makes a slider slide or that parallax animation animate.

Learn JS has an interactive tutorial to help you get started.

26. Update Your Portfolio

Once you start designing for the web, make sure to update your portfolio with web design projects. This simple action will help you show yourself … and others … that web design is part of your repertoire.

An updated portfolio can help potential clients see what your “style” looks like. Make sure to showcase layouts, colors, typography and different techniques that show what you can do.

27. Challenge Yourself

With so many shortcuts and code snippets to help you fix almost any website issue you are having, don’t get lazy. Remember to challenge yourself continually to learn new skills, new technologies and keep improving your web design game.

The one thing about this field is that it is constantly changing; there’s always something new to learn or try.

28. Maximise Your Experience

Get out there and design. You have to start designing websites to be a web designer.

Start small, but take on projects with others. Ask to join in on a project with a team at work. Tackle a small website for a friend. The more experience you have building websites, the better and faster you will get.

What are you waiting for? Stop procrastinating.

29. Ask for Feedback

Use your network to collect feedback on your website design projects, no matter how small you think they are. Listen to this feedback – even if you don’t like it and see what you can learn.

Aside from visual preference, did the person providing feedback offer suggestions for making the website function better? Could they easily understand the goal of the design? Did they connect with the messaging?

30. Keep Learning New Things

To be a great website designer, you just need to keep playing, trying and learning new things. Make a point to network and communicate with others in the field so that you can stay on top of techniques and visual changes that are in-demand.

If you are looking to learn website design, then this is probably already something you regularly do. But this is an evolving field, and it keeps changing almost every day. Just ask anyone who is doing it.

Let’s face it: video editing can be an endless rabbit hole of tweaks and techniques. You’ve got the footage, but turning it into something captivating? That’s the real art! And Adobe Premiere Pro is undoubtedly a powerhouse in the editing world. But who doesn’t love a good shortcut, especially when it’s free? That’s where Adobe Premiere Templates come in—pre-designed, ready-to-use assets that can turn your video from “meh” to “whoa” without hours of fiddling.

Using free Premiere Pro templates isn’t about taking shortcuts; it’s about finding clever ways to streamline your workflow. Imagine you’re on a tight deadline, or maybe you’re looking to impress with a sleek promo video but don’t want to start from scratch. These templates, from transitions to titles, are like tools in a magician’s kit, letting you focus on storytelling while the heavy lifting’s done for you.

Whether you’re hunting for the perfect title slide, a cinematic opener, or some eye-popping transitions, there’s no shortage of free Premiere Pro templates to download. The beauty? You get all the professional polish without the steep price tag. So, go ahead, explore these handpicked gems, and let your creativity take the reins!

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We had fun in my previous article exploring the goodness of scrolly animations supported in today’s versions of Chrome and Edge (and behind a feature flag in Firefox for now). Those are by and large referred to as “scroll-driven” animations. However, “scroll triggering” is something the Chrome team is still working on. It refers to the behavior you might have seen in the wild in which a point of no return activates a complete animation like a trap after our hapless scrolling user ventures past a certain point. You can see JavaScript examples of this on the Wow.js homepage which assembles itself in a sequence of animated entrances as you scroll down. There is no current official CSS solution for scroll-triggered animations — but Ryan Mulligan has shown how we can make it work by cleverly combining the animation-timeline property with custom properties and style queries.

That is a very cool way to combine new CSS features. But I am not done being overly demanding toward the awesome emergent animation timeline technology I didn’t know existed before I read up on it last month. I noticed scroll timelines and view timelines are geared toward animations that play backward when you scroll back up, unlike the Wow.js example where the dogs roll in and then stay. Bramus mentions the same point in his exploration of scroll-triggered animations. The animations run in reverse when scrolling back up. This is not always feasible. As a divorced Dad, I can attest that the Tinder UI is another example of a pattern in which scrolling and swiping can have irreversible consequences.

Scroll till the cows come home with Web-Slinger.css

Believe it or not, with a small amount of SCSS and no JavaScript, we can build a pure CSS replacement of the Wow.js library, which I hereby christen “Web-Slinger.css.” It feels good to use the scroll-driven optimized standards already supported by some major browsers to make a prototype library. Here’s the finished demo and then we will break down how it works. I have always enjoyed the deliberately lo-fi aesthetic of the original Wow.js page, so it’s nice to have an excuse to create a parody. Much profession, so impress.

Teach scrolling elements to roll over and stay

Web-Slinger.css introduces a set of class names in the format .scroll-trigger-n and .on-scroll-trigger-n. It also defines --scroll-trigger-n custom properties, which are inherited from the document root so we can access them from any CSS class. These conventions are more verbose than Wow.js but also more powerful. The two types of CSS classes decouple the triggers of our one-off animations from the elements they trigger, which means we can animate anything on the page based on the user reaching any scroll marker.

Here’s a basic example that triggers the Animate.css animation “flipInY” when the user has scrolled to the <div> marked as .scroll-trigger-8.

<div class="scroll-trigger-8"></div>
<img 
  class="on-scroll-trigger-8 animate__animated animate__flipInY" 
  src="https://i.imgur.com/wTWuv0U.jpeg"
>

A more advanced use is the sticky “Cownter” (trademark pending) at the top of the demo page, which takes advantage of the ability of one trigger to activate an arbitrary number of animations anywhere in the document. The Cownter increments as new cows appear then displays a reset button once we reach the final scroll trigger at the bottom of the page.

Here is the markup for the Cownter:

<div class="header">
  <h2 class="cownter"></h2>
  <div class="animate__animated  animate__backInDown on-scroll-trigger-12">
    <br>
    <a href="#" class="reset">🔁 Play again</a>
  </div>
</div>

…and the CSS:

.header {
  .cownter::after {
    --cownter: calc(var(--scroll-trigger-2) + var(--scroll-trigger-4) + var(--scroll-trigger-8) + var(--scroll-trigger-11));
    --pluralised-cow: 'cows';

    counter-set: cownter var(--cownter);
    content: "Have " counter(cownter) " " var(--pluralised-cow) ", man";
  }

  @container style(--scroll-trigger-2: 1) and style(--scroll-trigger-4: 0) {
    .cownter::after {
      --pluralised-cow: 'cow';
    }
  }
  
  a {
    text-decoration: none;
    color:blue;
  }
}

:root:has(.reset:active) * {
  animation-name: none;
}

The demo CodePen references Web-Slinger.css from a separate CodePen, which I reference in my final demo the same way I would an external resource.

Sidenote: If you have doubts about the utility of style queries, behold the age-old cow pluralization problem solved in pure CSS.

How does Web Slinger like to sling it?

The secret is based on an iconic thought experiment by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who once asked: If the view() function lets you style an element once it comes into view, what if you take that opportunity to style it so it can never be scrolled out of view? Would that element not stare back into you for eternity?

.scroll-trigger {
  animation-timeline: view();
  animation-name: stick-to-the-top;
  animation-fill-mode: both;
  animation-duration: 1ms;
}

@keyframes stick-to-the-top {
  .1%, to {
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
  }
}

This idea sounded too good to be true, reminiscent of the urge when you meet a genie to ask for unlimited wishes. But it works! The next puzzle piece is how to use this one-way animation technique to control something we’d want to display to the user. Divs that instantly stick to the ceiling as soon as they enter the viewport might have their place on a page discussing the movie Alien, but most of the time this type of animation won’t be something we want the user to see.

That’s where named view progress timelines come in. The empty scroll trigger element only has the job of sticking to the top of the viewport as soon as it enters. Next, we set the timeline-scope property of the <body> element so that it matches the sticky element’s view-timeline-name. Now we can apply Ryan’s toggle custom property and style query tricks to let each sticky element trigger arbitrary one-off animations anywhere on the page!

/** Each trigger element will cause a toggle named with 
  * the convention `--scroll-trigger-n` to be flipped 
  * from 0 to 1, which will unpause the animation on
  * any element with the class .on-scroll-trigger-n
 **/

:root {
  animation-name: run-scroll-trigger-1, run-scroll-trigger-2 /*etc*/;
  animation-duration: 1ms;
  animation-fill-mode: forwards;
  animation-timeline: --trigger-timeline-1, --trigger-timeline-2 /*etc*/;
  timeline-scope: --trigger-timeline-1, --trigger-timeline-2 /*etc*/;
}

@property --scroll-trigger-1 {
  syntax: "<integer>";
  initial-value: 0;
  inherits: true;
}
@keyframes run-scroll-trigger-1 {
  to {
    --scroll-trigger-1: 1;
  }
}

/** Add this class to arbitrary elements we want 
  * to only animate once `.scroll-trigger-1` has come 
  * into view, default them to paused state otherwise
 **/
.on-scroll-trigger-1 {
  animation-play-state: paused;
}

/** The style query hack will run the animations on
  * the element once the toggle is set to true
 **/
@container style(--scroll-trigger-1: 1) {
  .on-scroll-trigger-1 {
    animation-play-state: running;
  }
}

/** The trigger element which sticks to the top of 
  * the viewport and activates the one-way  animation 
  * that will unpause the animation on the 
  * corresponding element marked with `.on-scroll-trigger-n` 
  **/
.scroll-trigger-1 {
  view-timeline-name: --trigger-timeline-1;
} 

Trigger warning

We generate the genericized Web-Slinger.css in 95 lines of SCSS, which isn’t too bad. The drawback is that the more triggers we need, the larger the compiled CSS file. The numbered CSS classes also aren’t semantic, so it would be great to have native support for linking a scroll-triggered element to its trigger based on IDs, reminiscent of the popovertarget attribute for HTML buttons — except this hypothetical attribute would go on each target element and specify the ID of the trigger, which is the opposite of the way popovertarget works.

<!-- This is speculative — do not use -->
<scroll-trigger id="my-scroll-trigger"></scroll-trigger>
<div class="rollIn" scrolltrigger="my-scroll-trigger">Hello world</div>

Do androids dream of standardized scroll triggers?

As I mentioned at the start, Bramus has teased that scroll-triggered animations are something we’d like to ship in a future version of Chrome, but it still needs a bit of work before we can do that. I’m looking forward to standardized scroll-triggered animations built into the browser. We could do worse than a convention resembling Web-Slinger.css for declaratively defining scroll-triggered animations, but I know I am not objective about Web Slinger as its creator. It’s become a bit of a sacred cow for me so I shall stop milking the topic — for now.

Feel free to reference the prototype Web-Slinger.css library in your experimental CodePens, or fork the library itself if you have better ideas about how scroll-triggered animations could be standardized.

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One recent emerging trend is an increased use of gothic styles and themes. This trend captures everything from imagery and color schemes to fonts and overall styling.

It’s an almost natural progression and evolution from all of the dark mode designs we’ve seen in recent years to reversion to gothic style.

Here, we’ll look at gothic style design and how you can make this design trend – potentially – work for you. Whether that’s in a poster, flyer, typographic choice, or a website. Let’s dive in!

What is Gothic Style?

Gothic style derived from architecture in the 18th century and was later applied to graphic design. It is characterized by its use of ornate, intricate details, pointed arches, and vertical lines and is a design style that has ebbed and flowed over time.

In modern graphic design, gothic style design often refers to a contemporary interpretation of this historic design style. You’ll often find bold, blocky, or ornate lettering and graphics with a dark, moody color palette.

Characteristics of the Gothic Style

The first identifier of gothic style is often imagery. If you’ve been watching the Netflix series, “Wednesday,” you are no stranger to this style. There’s a distinct gothic vibe from the title typography to every image promoting the series and therein.

The gothic style has a distinctive influence on graphic design and can be seen in various design elements. Here are some other things to look for in gothic design elements:

• Ornate and intricate details: Pay special attention to borders, patterns, and typography.
• Dark color palette: You’ll find a lot of black, gray, and dark red or purple, which can create a sense of drama and mystery.
• Textures: Stone, metal, or wood to create a sense of authenticity and age.
• Symbolism and iconography: Symbolic elements, such as crosses, skulls, or gargoyles can be used to convey a sense of power, mystery, or horror.
• Emphasis on verticality: Vertical lines and forms, which can create a sense of height and grandeur are popular and often come across in visuals such as tall, narrow windows or pointed arches.
• Rough edges: Sharp lines might be offset by ragged or rough edges for lines, type elements, or even image containers.
• Gothic typography: Blackletter fonts are a common characteristic of Gothic design, often used in titles, headlines, and logos.

Gothic Fonts

There are two schools of gothic typography – more traditional blackletter or Old English fonts and modern, more experimental styles that pay homage to the old style.

Modern gothic fonts often have sharp, angular shapes and intricate details, which can evoke a sense of mystery, elegance, and sophistication. They are commonly used in branding and advertising for products and services that target a younger, edgier demographic.

Regardless of the time period, almost all of the typography in a gothic style shares some common visual details.

• Sharp, pointed edges that create a sense of drama and intensity. The letters often have pointed serifs or sharp, triangular shapes.
• Intricate details with highly decorative loops, swirls, and embellishments to create an ornate appearance.
• Vertical emphasis with tall, narrow letterforms that create a sense of height and grandeur.
• Lack of curves focusing on straight lines and sharp angles.
• Old-world charm that evokes historical roots, feelings of tradition or elegance, and maybe a hint of spookiness.

Tips for Using this Trend Well

The gothic style can be a striking choice, but it isn’t for every type of project. Context is extremely important here; the wrong content with a gothic style can feel off-base and jarring.

There are, though, many ways you can use gothic styles. Use this design trend with content that has historical or traditional themes, gothic-inspired products or services, elements that need high drama, or to create a high-end feel.

Remember that gothic doesn’t have to feel “dark.” It can also feel traditional.

The gothic style has a long history and is associated with many different historical periods and artistic movements, so it can be used to evoke a sense of authenticity and tradition.

You’ll find this style is often associated with heavy metal music, establishing that hard-edge connection between the visual aesthetic and the audio. For the same reason, you’ll often find gothic design themes with scary movies and medieval themes.

Gothic design can work exceptionally well for projects that have an intense vibe. Bold shapes and dark color help put extra emphasis on this feeling. Additionally, this can create a sense of authority and power.

Pair gothic images and typefaces with more simple and neutral elements so the design doesn’t get overwhelming. That may include simple complementary textures, backgrounds, images, and body text in a regular sans-serif style.

Finally, you might associate elements of a gothic style with high-end luxury. This can be especially true when gothicism is minimalized but elements are there, such as just using typography in this style. This creates a sense of elegance and sophistication, to help reinforce a brand’s premium status.

Templates with Gothic Styles

Start projects in a gothic style a little bit quicker with a template or font that’s in a gothic style. Here are a few downloadable options from Envato Elements that we love.

Gothic Birthday Invitation

Live Music YouTube Thumbnail

Moustache Party Flyer

Trotont Gothic Font

Cambridge Bold Decorative Gothic Font

Samaz Gothic Vintage Typeface

Conclusion

A gothic style can be a moody and fun way to design something a little differently. Just keep in mind that it may not be suitable in all design contexts. You’ll likely avoid gothic elements in designs aimed at children or those that require a more playful or whimsical aesthetic.

This design trend has come and gone a few times, and it’ll be interesting to see how much staying power it has now.

Color is an element that can make or break a design, and that rule holds true for presentation design as well. Choosing the right PowerPoint color scheme is super important.

But there’s one extra thing to consider – where your presentation will be given. A PowerPoint presentation can look quite different on a computer or tablet versus on a projected screen.

When it comes to selecting a PowerPoint color scheme, this is an important consideration. We’ve rounded nearly stylish PowerPoint color schemes as inspiration. While darker color schemes might look great close-up on screens, opt for lighter backgrounds (for enhanced readability) for projected presentations.

Note: The last color in each scheme is for the slide background.

1. Shocking Orange

When it comes to marketing and creative presentations, the orange color is the go-to choice among professionals. It not only works perfectly with both light and dark color pairings but also helps highlight all the important parts of a slide more clearly than any other color.

In this example, the bright orange (identified as Shocking Orange) instantly grabs the attention on top of the white background and makes the black typography highly visible and much easier to read.

2. Neon Green

Neon-themed high-contrast colors are a popular choice among marketers these days as they are quite effective as an accent color. These bright colors instantly pop out, highlighting key objects and text above all else.

Colors like Neon Green work best with a darker background. When you combine it with white color typography, you will come up with a color scheme that delivers results.

3. Orange and Greyish Turquoise

As we mentioned before, orange color is a popular choice in PowerPoint color schemes. But it doesn’t always have to be the dominating color. Sometimes, when you pair it with another light, secondary color, it gives you a pleasant and soothing color scheme.

In this example, you can see a light orange color being used to highlight the call to actions (CTAs) across the slideshow while a greyish-turquoise color is used to bring balance to the overall look and feel.

4. Bright Purple and Dark Blue

When creating a PowerPoint color scheme, choosing the right accent color is the key to achieving a professional vibe for the entire presentation. The important thing is to choose a color that sticks out without taking away the attention from the rest of the elements.

A color scheme with a bright purple accent goes perfectly with a dark background. Then you can add another dark blue to the mix to create another accent color to balance the attention.

5. Blue and Orange

A great thing about the orange color is how it goes well together with many other colors. It’s the king of accent colors. Blue is another color that comes out on top of the list.

Much like orange, the color blue is a great choice for creating attractive accents. And it works even better when you put those colors together.

6. Black and Gold

If your goal is to create a high-end and luxurious vibe across a PowerPoint slideshow, then no other color scheme works better than the simple yet elegant black and gold.

The classic black and gold color combination is considered one of the most iconic color schemes that have been used for decades by everyone from high-end fashion brands to luxury hotels and more. It’s the ideal color pairing for a classic, timeless look.

7. Pink and Gray

If you’re a fan of soft, pastel colors, this color scheme will work wonders for your presentation design. It’s especially an effective choice for lifestyle and fashion-related slideshows.

In this example slideshow design, you will see multiple shades of Pink, sometimes even as gradients, for the accents. This color blends beautifully with the light grayish background.

8. Red and White

PowerPoint color schemes don’t always have to be so complicated. Sometimes, a simple basic color combination is more than enough to create a compelling presentation design. This red and white color scheme shows how it’s done.

The color red is often associated with courage and authority. As a result, it is a go-to choice among modern brands and businesses for creating presentations that showcase their dominance in the market.

9. Cream and Green

This beautiful and soft color combination is a great choice for adding a soothing aesthetic to your presentation. It’s perfect for making PowerPoint slideshows for fashion, lifestyle, and travel-related topics.

In this design, the cream color works in harmony with the green to create a well-balanced look for the entire presentation. The color scheme also makes it much easier to bring more attention to the text and images.

10. Gray and Yellow

The color yellow is a great choice for accents but with the wrong color combination, it could mean disaster.

The gray color used in the above example is made of a combination of blue and cyan, which gives the design a unique background to effectively highlight the yellow accents without straining the viewer’s eyes.

11. Blue, Gray Green & Orange

With a bright overall scheme that’s easy on the eyes, this color scheme can help you create a modern PowerPoint presentation that’s readable and friendly. You can even tweak the colors somewhat to better work with your brand, if necessary.

The best thing about this color palette is that it lends itself to plenty of different presentation styles and applications.

12. Violet Gradient

Using the first two colors noted above, you can create a dark-to-light monotone gradient that can make for a modern PowerPoint design style.

Take this concept and expand it to any other colors you like for your spin on this modern color scheme.

13. Mint and Orange

On paper, these colors don’t seem to blend all that well, but with the right application min and orange on a black background can work.

Use a pair of colors like this for presentations where you are trying to make a bold statement or impact. This concept is often great for trendy topics or ideas that are a little unconventional.

14. Bright Blue and Light

The brighter, the better! Bright blue color schemes are a major trend in PowerPoint design … and for good reason. The color combination creates a bright, light feel with easy readability. Those are two things that pretty much everyone wants in a presentation template design.

The other thing that’s great about a color scheme like this – which focuses on one color – is that it matches practically everything else in the design with ease. It’s great for image-heavy presentations or those where text elements are a key focal point.

15. Teal and Lime

Two colors that you might not expect to see paired create a classy combo that’s interesting and engaging. Both teal and lime are considered “new neutrals” and work with a variety of colors easily. (What’s somewhat unexpected is putting them together.)

What’s great about this PowerPoint color scheme is that the extra interest from the hues can help generate extra attention for slides. The template in the example also mixes and matches teal and green primary color blocks to keep it interesting from slide to slide.

16. Colorful Gradients

Gradients are a color trend that just keeps reinventing and resurfacing. In the latest iteration, gradients are bright with a lot of color. Designers are working across the color wheel for gradients that have more of a rainbow effect throughout the design, even if individual gradients are more subtle.

What you are likely to see is a variety of different gradients throughout a project with different colors, but maybe a dominant color to carry the theme. Use this for presentation designs that are meant to be more fun, lighter, and highly engaging.

17. Light Blue Minimal

This color scheme with light blue and a minimal aesthetic is super trendy and so easy to read. You can add a lot of style with a black-and-white style for images or a deep blue accent for header text.

While a pale blue is ideal here, you could also consider experimenting with other pastels and the same overall theme for a modern presentation design.

18. Bright with Dark Background

The combination of bright colors on a dark background can be fun and quite different from the traditional PowerPoint color schemes that are often on white or light backgrounds. This design style for a presentation is bold and engaging but can be a challenge if you aren’t comfortable with that much color.

When you use a style like this, it is important to think about the presentation environment to ensure that everything will look as intended. A design like this, for example, can work well on screens, but not as well on a projector or in a large room.

19. Navy and Orange

The navy and orange color combination is stylish and classic for presentation design. To add a fresh touch consider some of the effects such as the template above, with color blocking and overlays to add extra interest.

What makes this color combination pop is the element of contrast between a dark and a bright pair. The navy here is almost a neutral hue and works with almost any other design element.

20. Dark and Light Green

A modern take on a monotone color scheme involves using two similar colors that aren’t exactly tints and tones of one another. This pairing of dark green and light (almost minty) green does precisely that.

What’s nice about this color scheme is that the colors can be used almost interchangeably as primary elements or accents. It provides a lot of flexibility in the presentation design.

21. Bright Crystal Blue

Blue presentation color schemes will always be in style. The only thing that changes is the variance of the hue. This pair of blues – a bright crystal blue with a darker teal – works in almost the same way as the pair of greens above.

What’s nice about this color palette though is that the dark color is the accent here. That’s a modern twist on color design for presentations.

22. Blue and Yellow

Blue and yellow are classic pairings and can make for a striking presentation color combination. With a bright white background, these hues stand out in a major way.

What works here is the element of contrast. A darker blue with a brighter yellow creates an almost yin and yang effect with color. The only real caution is to take care with yellow on a white or light background with fonts or other light elements.

23. Teal

Teal is a personality-packed color choice. If you are looking for a bold statement with a PowerPoint template, start here.

While the above color scheme also includes a hint of yellow for accents, the teal color option is strong enough to stand alone. You could consider a tint or tone for a mono-look. It also pairs amazingly well with black-and-white images.

Teal is a fun color option that will provide a lot of practical use with your slide deck.

24. Bright Coral

This color scheme is one of those that you will either love or hate. The bright coral color is powerful and generates an immediate reaction.

It’s also quite trendy and will stand out from many of the other more bland PowerPoint colors that you may encounter. This is a great option for a startup that wants to present with a bang or a brand that has a similar color in its palette. It may not work so well for more traditional brands or those that are more conservative with their slide designs.

25. Dark Mode Colors

A dark mode color scheme might be the biggest trend in all of design right now, and that also applies to presentation design.

This purple and emerald color paired with black with white text looks amazing. It is sleek, modern, and has high visual appeal without having to use a lot of images.

This works best for digital presentations when you don’t have concerns about room lighting to worry about.

If you aren’t ready to jump into dark mode on your own, the Harber template above is a great start with nice color, gradients, and interesting shapes throughout the slide types.

26. Navy and Lime

A navy and lime combination is a modern take on colorful neutrals that are anything but boring.

These colors have a nice balance with a white or light background and are fairly easy to use. With so many brands already using blue in their base color palette, this is an option that works and is an extension of existing elements for many brands. (Use your blue and add the lime to it.)

Also, with this color combination, the idea of a minimal overall slide structure is nice so that the power of the colors and impact comes through. They work beside images in full color or black and white.

27. Modern Blue

When you aren’t planning to use brand colors – or maybe as a startup or independent contractor so you don’t have them yet – a modern color combination can add the right flair to a PowerPoint presentation.

The bright grayish-blue in the Lekro PowerPoint template – you can find it here – adds the right amount of color without overwhelming the content. Plus, subtle orange accents help guide the eye throughout this PowerPoint color scheme. https://elements.envato.com/lekro-powerpoint-presentation-67YW3M

28. Blackish and Yellow

While at first pass, black and yellow might seem like a harsh color combination, it can set the tone for a project that should emanate strength. This PowerPoint color scheme softens the harshness of the duo with a blackish color, that’s grayer and has a softer feel.

Pair this combo on a light background or with black and white images for a stylish, mod look.

29. Orange and White

A bright color can soften the harshness of a stark PowerPoint design. Especially when used for larger portions of the content area, such as background swatches or to help accent particular elements.

The Sprint template makes great use of color with a simple palette – orange and white with black text – but has slide ideas that incorporate the color throughout for something with a more “designed” look to it. (And if you aren’t a fan of the orange, change the color for use with this template to keep the modern feel.)

30. Purple

Purple presentations are in. The color, which was once avoided by many in design projects, has flourished with recent color trends.

Because more funky, bright colors are popular, a presentation with a purple focus can be acceptable for a variety of uses. The use in Batagor template has a modern design with a deep header in the featured color, which works best with images that aren’t incredibly bold in terms of color.

31. Blue-Green Gradients

Another trending item in color is the use of gradients. This trend can be applied to PowerPOint presentations as well.

Use a blue-to-green gradient for a soft and harmonious color scheme that won’t get in the way of content. Use each hue alone for accents and informational divots throughout the presentation design.

32. Black and White

Minimalism is a design trend that never goes away. A black-and-white (or gray) presentation screams class and sophistication.

It can also be easy to work with when you don’t want the color to get in the way of your message. And if a design can stand alone without color, you know it works.

33. Reds and Black

If you are designing a presentation for viewing on screens, such as desktops or tablets, a dark background with bright color accents and white text can work well. (This combination gets a lot trickier on projector displays.)

While reverse text and red aren’t always recommended, you can see from the Nova template that they can be a stunning combination. But note, this modern color scheme is best for specific content and audiences.

34. Blue and Pink

This color scheme is a spin on Pantone’s colors of the year from 2016. https://designshack.net/articles/graphics/how-to-use-the-pantone-color-of-the-year-in-design-projects/ The brighter, bolder versions of rose quartz and serenity and fun and sophisticated.

The unexpected combo sets the tone with a strong, trustworthy blue and adds softness with the paler pink. The colors work equally well with white or darker backgrounds.

35. Blue and Green

Blue and green accents can help a black or white background come to life in a presentation template. The colors here can work with either background style, based on how you plan to display your presentation.

What’s nice about these colors is that they are pretty neutral – since both are found in nature – and can be used with ease for design or text elements in a PowerPoint color scheme.

36. Beige and Gray

If you are looking for a softer color palette, consider beige and gray. These hues can work well on screens or projected, making them a versatile option.

The nice thing about such a neutral palette is that it gives content plenty of room, so that will be the true focus of the presentation.

37. Tints and Tones

While the purplish blue-gray in the Business PowerPoint Presentation template is stunning, it represents a greater trend in presentation design. Pick a color – maybe your dominant brand color – and use tints and tones for the presentation color scheme.

By mixing the color with white or black and gray, you’ll end up with a stunning set of color variations that match your messaging.

38. Bold Rainbow

While most of the color schemes featured here only include a color or two, bright color schemes with wider color variations are trending.

This distinct “rainbow style” can be somewhat difficult to use without rules for each color. Proceed with caution.

39. Bright Neutrals

Lime green is the brightest “neutral” you might ever use. A fun palette that’s versatile can be a solid foundation for a color palette.

It works exceptionally well in the Rouka PowerPoint template thanks to a pairing with a subtle gray background. Using a light, but not white, background can be great for screens and projected presentations because it takes away some of the harshness of a white background. The subtle coloring is easier on the eyes for reading and viewing.

40. Rich Browns

Browns aren’t often what comes to mind when thinking of building a color scheme, but rich browns can be a modern option.

Pair a neutral beige-brown with a darker color for an interesting contrast that works with almost any style of content.

41. Mint Green

Go super trendy with a modern and streamlined palette of mint green and gray on white. While this combination can have a minimal feel, it also adds a touch of funkiness to the design.

Add another hint of color – think orange – for extra accents.

42. Dark Gray and Blue

It doesn’t get more classy than a combination of grays and blues. This new take on a classic color scheme adds another brighter blue as well to pick up on modern trends.

Just be careful with text using a dark background such as this one. White is probably your best option for typography (and look for a font with thicker strokes!)