Re-creating the ‘His Dark Materials’ Logo in CSS

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The text logo has a slash cut through the text. You set two copies on top of one another, cropping both of them with the clip-path property.

What's interesting to me is how many cool design effects require multiple copies of an element to do something cool. To get the extra copy, at least with text, we can sometimes use a pseudo-element. For more elaborate content, there is an element() function in CSS, but it's limited to a prefixed property in Firefox. Still, it enables awesome stuff, like making a mini-map of long content.

You can style it differently with a pseudo-element, which was useful here. Might be cool to see a way to clone elements on a page and apply styling all through CSS... someday.

See the Pen
His Dark Materials TV series logo with CSS
by Michelle Barker (@michellebarker)
on CodePen.

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Water.css

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It's notable that Water.css was the #1 clicked thing from Louis Lazaris' Web Tools Weekly in 2019. It's from a 13-year old developer named Felix!

It's just a little bit of CSS you apply to class-free semantic HTML to give it nice basic responsive styles — the perfect kind of thing for a Pen when you are just tossing some markup together and want it to look nice.

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what3words Launches Voice API Powered by Speechmatics

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what3words, an innovative location solution provider, just announced its new Voice API, powered by Speechmatics. what3words has divided the world into three-meter squares, with each square represented by a unique set of three individual words (e.g. the three word identifier for the what3words headquarters is filled-count-soap). By using a three-word identifier, duplicative and mispronounced street addresses are eliminated.