Day: October 7, 2024

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The @supports at-rule has been extended several times since its initial release. Once only capable of checking support for property/value pairs, it can now check for a selector using the selector() wrapper function and different font formats and techs using font-format() and font-tech(), respectively. However, one feature the community still longs for is testing other at-rules support.

@supports at-rule(@new-rule) {
  /* @new-rule is supported */
}

The CSSWG decided in 2022 to add the prior at-rule() wrapper function. While this is welcome and wonderful news, here we are two years later and we don’t have a lot of updates on when it will be added to browsers. So, how can we check for support in the meantime?

Funny coincidence: Just yesterday the Chrome team changed the status from “new” to “assigned” as if they knew I was thinking about it.

Looking for an answer, I found this post by Bramus that offers a workaround: while we can’t check for a CSS at-rule in the @supports at-rule, we can test a property that was shipped with a particular at-rule as a substitute, the thinking being that if a related feature was released that we can test and it is supported, then the feature that we’re unable to test is likely to be supported as well… and vice versa. Bramus provides an example that checks support for the animation-timeline property to check if the @scroll-timeline at-rule (which has been discontinued) is supported since the two were shipped together.

@supports (animation-timeline: works) {
  /* @scroll-timeline is supported*/
}

/* Note: @scroll-timeline doesn't exist anymore */

Bramus calls these “telltale” properties, which is a fun way to think about this because it resembles a puzzle of deduction, where we have to find a related property to check if its at-rule is supported.

I wanted to see how many of these puzzles I could solve, and in the process, know which at-rules we can reliably test today. So, I’ve identified a full list of supportable at-rules that I could find.

I’ve excluded at-rules that offer no browser support, like @color-profile, @when, and @else, as well as deprecated at-rules, like @document. Similarly, I’m excluding older at-rules that have enjoyed wide browser support for years — like @page, @import, @media, @font-face, @namespace and @keyframes — since those are more obvious.

@container size queries (baseline support)

Testing support for size queries is fairly trivial since the module introduces several telltale properties, notably container-type, container-name and container. Choose your favorite because they should all evaluate the same. And if that property is supported, then @container should be supported, too, since it was introduced at the same time.

@supports (container-type: size) {
  /* Size queries are supported! */
}

You can combine both of them by nesting a @supports query inside a @container and vice versa.

@supports (container-type: size) {
  @container (width > 800px) {
    /* Styles */
  }
}

@container style queries (partial support)

Size queries give us a lot of telltale properties to work with, but the same can’t be said about style queries. Since each element has a style containment by default, there isn’t a property or value specific to them. We can work around that by forgetting about @supports and writing the styles inside a style query instead. Style queries work in supporting browsers but otherwise are ignored, so we’re able to write some base styles for older browsers that will be overridden by modern ones.

.container {
  --supports-style-queries: true;
}

.container .child {
  /* Base styles */
}

@container style(--supports-style-queries: true) {
  /* Container queries are supported! */
  .child {
    /* We can override the base styles here */
  }
}

@counter-style (partial support)

The @counter-style at-rule allows us to make custom counters for lists. The styles are defined inside a @counter-style with custom name.

@counter-style triangle {
  system: cyclic;
  symbols: ‣;
  suffix: " ";
}

ul {
  list-style: triangle;
}

We don’t have a telltale property to help us solve this puzzle, but rather a telltale value. The list-style-type property used to accept a few predefined keyword values, but now supports additional values since @counter-style was introduced. That means we should be able to check if the browser supports <custom-ident> values for list-style-type.

@supports (list-style: custom-ident) {
  /* @counter-style is supported! */
}

@font-feature-values (baseline support)

Some fonts include alternate glyphs in the font file that can be customized using the @font-feature-values at-rule. These custom glyphs can be displayed using the font-variant-alternatesl, so that’s our telltale property for checking support on this one:

@supports (font-variant-alternates: swash(custom-ident)) {
  /* @font-feature-values is supported! */
}

@font-palette-values (baseline support)

The same concept can be applied to the @font-palette-values at-rule, which allows us to modify multicolor fonts using the font-palette property that we can use as its telltale property.

@supports (font-palette: normal) {
  /* @font-palette-values is supported! */
}

@position-try (partial support)

The @position-try at-rule is used to create custom anchor fallback positions in anchor positioning. It’s probably the one at-rule in this list that needs more support since it is such a new feature. Fortunately, there are many telltale properties in the same module that we can reach for. Be careful, though, because some properties have been renamed since they were initially introduced. I recommend testing support for @position-try using anchor-name or position-try as telltale properties.

@supports (position-try: flip-block) {
  /* @position-try is supported! */
}

@scope (partial support)

The @scope at-rule seems tricky to test at first, but it turns out can apply the same strategy we did with style queries. Create a base style for browsers that don’t support @scope and then override those styles inside a @scope block that will only be valid in supporting browsers. A progressive enhancement strategy if there ever was one!

.foo .element {
  /* Base style */
}

@scope (.foo) to (.bar) {
  :scope .element {
    /* @scope is supported, override base style */
  }
}

@view-transition (partial support)

The last at-rule in this list is @view-transition. It’s another feature making quick strides into browser implementations, but it’s still a little ways out from being considered baseline support.

The easiest way would be to use its related view-transition-name property since they released close together:

@supports (view-transition-name: custom-ident) {
  /* @view-transition is supported! */
}

But we may as well use the selector() function to check for one of its many pseudo-elements support:

@supports selector(::view-transition-group(transition-name)) {
  /* @view-transition is supported! */
}

A little resource

I put this list into a demo that uses @supports to style different at-rules based on the test recipes we covered:

The unsolved ones

Even though I feel like I put a solid list together, there are three at-rules that I couldn’t figure out how to test: @layer, @property, and @starting-style.

Thankfully, each one is pretty decently supported in modern browsers. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t test for support. My hunch is that we can text @layer support similar to the approaches for testing support for style() queries with @container where we set a base style and use progressive enhancement where there’s support.

The other two? I have no idea. But please do let me know how you’re checking support for @property and @starting-style — or how you’re checking support for any other feature differently than what I have here. This is a tricky puzzle!

Recipes for Detecting Support for CSS At-Rules originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

There is an amazing community effort happening in search of a new logo for CSS. I was a bit skeptical at first, as I never really considered CSS a “brand.” Why does it need a logo? For starters, the current logo seems… a bit dated.

Displayed quite prominently is the number 3. As in CSS version 3, or simply CSS3. Depending on your IDE’s selected icon pack of choice, CSS file icons are often only the number 3.

To give an incredibly glossed-over history of CSS3:

• Earliest draft specification was in 1999!
• Adoption began in 2011, when it was published as the W3C Recommendation.
• It’s been used ever since? That can’t be right…

CSS is certainly not stuck in 2011. Take a look at all the features added to CSS in the past five years (warning, scrolling animation ahead):

(Courtesy of Alex Riviere)

Seems like this stems mainly from the discontinuation of version numbering for CSS. These days, we mostly reference newer CSS features by their individual specification level, such as Selectors Level 4 being the current Selectors specification, for example.

A far more general observation on the “progress” of CSS could be taking a look at features being implemented — things like Caniuse and Baseline are great for seeing when certain browsers implemented certain features. Similarly, the Interop Project is a group consisting of browsers figuring out what to implement next.

There are ongoing discussions about the “eras” of CSS, though, and how those may be a way of framing the way we refer to CSS features.

Chris posted about CSS4 here on CSS-Tricks (five years ago!), discussing how successful CSS3 was from a marketing perspective. Jen Simmons also started a discussion back in 2020 on the CSS Working Group’s GitHub about defining CSS4. Knowing that, are you at least somewhat surprised that we have blown right by CSS4 and are technically using CSS5?

The CSS-Next Community Group is leading the charge here, something that member Brecht de Ruyte introduced earlier this year at Smashing Magazine. The purpose of this group is to, well, determine what’s next for CSS! The group defines the CSS versions as:

• CSS3 (~2009-2012): Level 3 CSS specs as defined by the CSSWG
• CSS4 (~2013-2018): Essential features that were not part of CSS3, but are already a fundamental part of CSS.
• CSS5 (~2019-2024): Newer features whose adoption is steadily growing.
• CSS6 (~2025+): Early-stage features that are planned for future CSS.

Check out this slide deck from November 2023 detailing the need for defining stronger versioning. Their goals are clear in my opinion:

1. Help developers learn CSS.
2. Help educators teach CSS.
3. Help employers define modern web skil…
4. Help the community understand the progression of CSS capabilities over time.

Circling back around to the logo, I have to agree: Yes, it’s time for a change.

Back in August, Adam Argyle opened an issue on the CSS-Next project on GitHub to drum up ideas. The thread is active and ongoing, though appears to be honing in on a release candidate. Let’s take a look at some proposals!

Nils Binder, from 9elements, proposed this lovely design, riffing on the “cascade.” Note the river-like “S” shape flowing through the design.

Chris Kirk-Nielson pitched a neat interactive logo concept he put together a while back. The suggestion plays into the “CSS is Awesome” meme, where the content overflows the wrapper. While playful and recognizable, Nils raised an excellent point:

Regarding the reference to the ‘CSS IS AWESOME’ meme, I initially chuckled, of course. However, at the same time, the meme also represents CSS as something quirky, unpredictable, and full of bugs. I’m not sure if that’s the exact message that needs to be repeated in the logo. It feels like it reinforces the recurring ‘CSS is broken’ mantra. To exaggerate: CSS is subordinate to JS and somehow broken.

Wow, is this the end of an era for the familiar meme? 

It’s looking that way, as the current candidate builds off of Javi Aguilar’s proposal. Javi’s design is being iterated upon by the group, it’s shaping up and looks great hanging with friends:

Javi describes the design considerations in the thread. Personally, I’m a fan of the color choice, and the softer shape differentiates it from the more rigid JavaScript and Typescript logos.

As mentioned, the discussion is ongoing and the design is actively being worked on. You can check out the latest versions in Adam’s CodePen demo:

Or if checking out design files is more your speed, take a look in Figma.

I think the thing that impresses me most about community initiatives like this is the collaboration involved. If you have opinions on the design of the logo, feel free to chime in on the discussion thread!

Once the versions are defined and the logo finalized, the only thing left to decide on will be a mascot for CSS. A chameleon? A peacock? I’m sure the community will choose wisely.

Searching for a New CSS Logo originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, is a vibrant celebration of life, memory, and heritage.

If you’re looking to capture the energy and deep cultural significance of this holiday in your designs, our collection of Día de los Muertos mockups, graphics, and resources is exactly what you need.

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These Día de los Muertos templates and graphics will surely embody the rich traditions of this beloved Mexican holiday.

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This flyer template is adorned with an eye-catching, half-page illustration of a lucha libre-styled calacas skull – perfect for any Day Of The Dead celebrations or other Mexican events. Provided in both Photoshop PSD and Illustrator AI files, the template is easily customizable. to your preference.

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Hidun – Dia de los Muertos Instagram Stories

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Day of the Dead Icon Set

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Mexican Sugar Skull Illustration Set

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Free Day of the Dead Mockup Templates

Free Day of the Dead Mockup with Skeletons

This creative and colorful mockup template is perfect for showcasing your Day of the Dead greeting cards, invites, and various other designs. The template is free to use and it comes in PSD format.

Free Halloween & Day of the Dead Mockup

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Free Day of the Dead Frame Mockup

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In a fast-paced industry like tech, it can be hard to deal with the fear of missing out on important news. But, as many of us know, there’s an absolutely huge amount of information coming in daily, and finding the right time and balance to keep up can be difficult, if not stressful. A classic piece of technology like an RSS feed is a delightful way of taking back ownership of our own time. In this article, we will create a static Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader that will bring you the latest curated news only once (yes: once) a day.

We’ll obviously work with RSS technology in the process, but we’re also going to combine it with some things that maybe you haven’t tried before, including Astro (the static site framework), TypeScript (for JavaScript goodies), a package called rss-parser (for connecting things together), as well as scheduled functions and build hooks provided by Netlify (although there are other services that do this).

I chose these technologies purely because I really, really enjoy them! There may be other solutions out there that are more performant, come with more features, or are simply more comfortable to you — and in those cases, I encourage you to swap in whatever you’d like. The most important thing is getting the end result!

Here’s how this will go. Astro generates the website. I made the intentional decision to use a static site because I want the different RSS feeds to be fetched only once during build time, and that’s something we can control each time the site is “rebuilt” and redeployed with updates. That’s where Netlify’s scheduled functions come into play, as they let us trigger rebuilds automatically at specific times. There is no need to manually check for updates and deploy them! Cron jobs can just as readily do this if you prefer a server-side solution.

During the triggered rebuild, we’ll let the rss-parser package do exactly what it says it does: parse a list of RSS feeds that are contained in an array. The package also allows us to set a filter for the fetched results so that we only get ones from the past day, week, and so on. Personally, I only render the news from the last seven days to prevent content overload. We’ll get there!

But first...

RSS is a web feed technology that you can feed into a reader or news aggregator. Because RSS is standardized, you know what to expect when it comes to the feed’s format. That means we have a ton of fun possibilities when it comes to handling the data that the feed provides. Most news websites have their own RSS feed that you can subscribe to (this is Smashing Magazine’s RSS feed: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/feed/). An RSS feed is capable of updating every time a site publishes new content, which means it can be a quick source of the latest news, but we can tailor that frequency as well.

RSS feeds are written in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format and have specific elements that can be used within it. Instead of focusing too much on the technicalities here, I’ll give you a link to the RSS specification. Don’t worry; that page should be scannable enough for you to find the most pertinent information you need, like the kinds of elements that are supported and what they represent. For this tutorial, we’re only using the following elements: <title>, <link>, <description>, <item>, and <pubDate>. We’ll also let our RSS parser package do some of the work for us.

We’ll start by creating our Astro site! In your terminal run pnpm create astro@latest. You can use any package manager you want — I’m simply trying out pnpm for myself.

After running the command, Astro’s chat-based helper, Houston, walks through some setup questions to get things started.

 astro   Launch sequence initiated.

   dir   Where should we create your new project?
         ./rss-buddy

  tmpl   How would you like to start your new project?
         Include sample files

    ts   Do you plan to write TypeScript?
         Yes

   use   How strict should TypeScript be?
         Strict

  deps   Install dependencies?
         Yes

   git   Initialize a new git repository?
         Yes

I like to use Astro’s sample files so I can get started quickly, but we’re going to clean them up a bit in the process. Let’s clean up the src/pages/index.astro file by removing everything inside of the <main></main> tags. Then we’re good to go!

From there, we can spin things by running pnpm start. Your terminal will tell you which localhost address you can find your site at.

The src/pages/index.astro file is where we will make an array of RSS feeds we want to follow. We will be using Astro’s template syntax, so between the two code fences (---), create an array of feedSources and add some feeds. If you need inspiration, you can copy this:

const feedSources = [
  'https://www.smashingmagazine.com/feed/',
  'https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/rss.xml',
  // etc.
]

Now we’ll install the rss-parser package in our project by running pnpm install rss-parser. This package is a small library that turns the XML that we get from fetching an RSS feed into JavaScript objects. This makes it easy for us to read our RSS feeds and manipulate the data any way we want.

Once the package is installed, open the src/pages/index.astro file, and at the top, we’ll import the rss-parser and instantiate the Partner class.

import Parser from 'rss-parser';
const parser = new Parser();

We use this parser to read our RSS feeds and (surprise!) parse them to JavaScript. We’re going to be dealing with a list of promises here. Normally, I would probably use Promise.all(), but the thing is, this is supposed to be a complicated experience. If one of the feeds doesn’t work for some reason, I’d prefer to simply ignore it.

Why? Well, because Promise.all() rejects everything even if only one of its promises is rejected. That might mean that if one feed doesn’t behave the way I’d expect it to, my entire page would be blank when I grab my hot beverage to read the news in the morning. I do not want to start my day confronted by an error.

Instead, I’ll opt to use Promise.allSettled(). This method will actually let all promises complete even if one of them fails. In our case, this means any feed that errors will just be ignored, which is perfect.

Let’s add this to the src/pages/index.astro file:

interface FeedItem {
  feed?: string;
  title?: string;
  link?: string;
  date?: Date;
}

const feedItems: FeedItem[] = [];

await Promise.allSettled(
  feedSources.map(async (source) => {
    try {
      const feed = await parser.parseURL(source);
      feed.items.forEach((item) => {
        const date = item.pubDate ? new Date(item.pubDate) : undefined;

          feedItems.push({
            feed: feed.title,
            title: item.title,
            link: item.link,
            date,
          });
      });
    } catch (error) {
      console.error(Error fetching feed from ${source}:, error);
    }
  })
);

This creates an array (or more) named feedItems. For each URL in the feedSources array we created earlier, the rss-parser retrieves the items and, yes, parses them into JavaScript. Then, we return whatever data we want! We’ll keep it simple for now and only return the following:

• The feed title,
• The title of the feed item,
• The link to the item,
• And the item’s published date.

The next step is to ensure that all items are sorted by date so we’ll truly get the “latest” news. Add this small piece of code to our work:

const sortedFeedItems = feedItems.sort((a, b) => (b.date ?? new Date()).getTime() - (a.date ?? new Date()).getTime());

Oh, and... remember when I said I didn’t want this RSS reader to render anything older than seven days? Let’s tackle that right now since we’re already in this code.

We’ll make a new variable called sevenDaysAgo and assign it a date. We’ll then set that date to seven days ago and use that logic before we add a new item to our feedItems array.

This is what the src/pages/index.astro file should now look like at this point:

---
import Layout from '../layouts/Layout.astro';
import Parser from 'rss-parser';
const parser = new Parser();

const sevenDaysAgo = new Date();
sevenDaysAgo.setDate(sevenDaysAgo.getDate() - 7);

const feedSources = [
  'https://www.smashingmagazine.com/feed/',
  'https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/rss.xml',
]

interface FeedItem {
  feed?: string;
  title?: string;
  link?: string;
  date?: Date;
}

const feedItems: FeedItem[] = [];

await Promise.allSettled(
  feedSources.map(async (source) => {
    try {
      const feed = await parser.parseURL(source);
      feed.items.forEach((item) => {
        const date = item.pubDate ? new Date(item.pubDate) : undefined;
        if (date && date >= sevenDaysAgo) {
          feedItems.push({
            feed: feed.title,
            title: item.title,
            link: item.link,
            date,
          });
        }
      });
    } catch (error) {
      console.error(Error fetching feed from ${source}:, error);
    }
  })
);

const sortedFeedItems = feedItems.sort((a, b) => (b.date ?? new Date()).getTime() - (a.date ?? new Date()).getTime());

---

<Layout title="Welcome to Astro.">
  <main>
  </main>
</Layout>

It’s time to show our news articles on the Astro site! To keep this simple, we’ll format the items in an unordered list rather than some other fancy layout.

All we need to do is update the <Layout> element in the file with the XML objects sprinkled in for a feed item’s title, URL, and publish date.

<Layout title="Welcome to Astro.">
  <main>
  {sortedFeedItems.map(item => (
    <ul>
      <li>
        <a href={item.link}>{item.title}</a>
        <p>{item.feed}</p>
        <p>{item.date}</p>
      </li>
    </ul>
  ))}
  </main>
</Layout>

Go ahead and run pnpm start from the terminal. The page should display an unordered list of feed items. Of course, everything is styled at the moment, but luckily for you, you can make it look exactly like you want with CSS!

And remember that there are even more fields available in the XML for each item if you want to display more information. If you run the following snippet in your DevTools console, you’ll see all of the fields you have at your disposal:

feed.items.forEach(item => {}

We’re nearly done! The feeds are being fetched, and they are returning data back to us in JavaScript for use in our Astro page template. Since feeds are updated whenever new content is published, we need a way to fetch the latest items from it.

We want to avoid doing any of this manually. So, let’s set this site on Netlify to gain access to their scheduled functions that trigger a rebuild and their build hooks that do the building. Again, other services do this, and you’re welcome to roll this work with another provider — I’m just partial to Netlify since I work there. In any case, you can follow Netlify’s documentation for setting up a new site.

Once your site is hosted and live, you are ready to schedule your rebuilds. A build hook gives you a URL to use to trigger the new build, looking something like this:

https://api.netlify.com/build_hooks/your-build-hook-id

Let’s trigger builds every day at midnight. We’ll use Netlify’s scheduled functions. That’s really why I’m using Netlify to host this in the first place. Having them at the ready via the host greatly simplifies things since there’s no server work or complicated configurations to get this going. Set it and forget it!

We’ll install @netlify/functions (instructions) to the project and then create the following file in the project’s root directory: netlify/functions/deploy.ts.

This is what we want to add to that file:

// netlify/functions/deploy.ts

import type { Config } from '@netlify/functions';

const BUILD_HOOK =
  'https://api.netlify.com/build_hooks/your-build-hook-id'; // replace me!

export default async (req: Request) => {
  await fetch(BUILD_HOOK, {
    method: 'POST',
  }).then((response) => {
    console.log('Build hook response:', response.json());
  });

  return {
    statusCode: 200,
  };
};

export const config: Config = {
  schedule: '0 0 * * *',
};

If you commit your code and push it, your site should re-deploy automatically. From that point on, it follows a schedule that rebuilds the site every day at midnight, ready for you to take your morning brew and catch up on everything that you think is important.

With Halloween just around the corner, everyone is busy preparing for fun costume parties, festivals, and events. We picked out some of the best Halloween flyer templates to help you promote those events like a pro.

In this collection, we’re featuring a set of professionally designed Halloween-themed flyer templates you can use to quickly design a flyer to promote Halloween parties, festivals, movie nights, music events, and more.

We made sure to mix a collection of flyer templates that are both spooky and scary so that you can design flyers that appeal to both kids and grown-ups of all ages. The templates are available in Photoshop and Illustrator formats so you can easily customize them to your preference as well.

Halloween Candy Party Flyer Template

This Halloween flyer has a vibrant, easy-to-use design perfect for any event. The template has a colorful design with spooky illustrations and creative elements. Its features include 8.27 x 11.69 in size with 3mm bleeds, 300 dpi CMYK resolution, editable fonts and text, and easily changeable colors. It comes in AI, PSD, PDF, and EPS.

Halloween Party Night Flyer Template

Another highly customizable, print-ready Halloween flyer for your spooky-themed event promotions. Ideal for any project, this monstrous design comes in 8.27 x 11.69 inch size with 300 dpi resolution for high-quality prints. Boasting well-organized layers and editable texts, colors, it includes AI, PSD, PDF, PNG, and EPS files.

Cool Halloween Flyer Template

This is a sleek and modern Halloween flyer for your Halloween event. This easy-to-edit A4 size flyer boasts well-organized layers. Its full editability allows you to modify all colors and text. Top-notch with a CMYK 300 DPI resolution, this print-ready template ensures an eye-catching end result.

Cute Halloween Flyer Template

This Halloween flyer presents an adorable pink design perfect for any Halloween event. This modern and elegantly designed flyer is size A4 and is fully editable, offering easy-to-edit text and image replacement via smart objects.

Creepy Halloween Party Flyer Set

An easy-to-use flyer template perfect for any Halloween event. Fully customizable to fit your brand, the flyer comes in A4 size with a resolution of 300DPI, ensuring quality prints. The package includes organized layers in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator formats.

Happy Halloween Flyer Template

A versatile and customizable Halloween flyer with a timeless, vintage theme. Ideal for businesses of any size, it’s perfect for Halloween-themed marketing or events. The A4 flyer features well-organized layers, is fully editable with adjustable fonts, colors, and objects, and is print-ready at CMYK 300 DPI.

Trick or Treat Halloween Flyer Template

This Halloween flyer is ideal for businesses, design firms, and party planners looking to advertise Halloween parties or events. It follows a corporate theme and color, but is still fully customizable from the font to the photos. The flyer, sized at A4, is readily printable at 300 DPI in CMYK.

Halloween Party Flyer Template

This Halloween flyer offers an eye-catching design that can be customized to fit any brand or business. It’s simple to use with structured files and layers, and compatible with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. At A4 size and print-ready, it offers CMYK 300DPI quality. It also includes free fonts.

Creative Happy Halloween Flyer Templates

Another Halloween flyer template that is perfect for any spooky event you’re planning. These templates sport a modern, elegant design that can be easily customized. You can edit text, change images via smart objects and tweak colors. They come in an A4 format, are print-ready, and well-organized with fully editable layered features in CMYK 300 DPI.

Zombie Halloween Flyer Template

A modern and creative Halloween-themed flyer template that’s ideal for your events. Its A4 format (8.268×11.693 inch) + 3mm bleed, coupled with well-organized layers, makes it completely editable and print-ready with CMYK 300 DPI. What’s most impressive is that all colors and text can be modified to suit your personal preferences.

Creative Halloween Flyer Template

This is a versatile flyer template that can be used across various types of Halloween event promotions. It comes in a festive-themed A4 size format and features easily editable elements such as color, font, objects, and photos. It’s fully customizable, print-ready, and organized in identifiable layers.

Cool Halloween Party Flyer

This Halloween party flyer is perfect for promoting Halloween-themed events. Crafted in Photoshop, it boasts high resolution, print-ready capabilities, and allows for font/text editing. Change colors with ease to match your theme and appreciate its well-organized layering.

Colorful Halloween Flyer Template

Embrace the festive spirit with this Halloween flyer template. It’s professionally crafted using simple shapes, providing you with the flexibility to alter colors, dimensions, objects, fonts, and photos. The template maintains a corporate theme and can be used across different platforms. Other notable features include it being print-ready, fully editable, and well-organized layers.

Simple Halloween Kids Party Flyer

This Halloween flyer template is perfect for spreading the word about kid’s parties. Coming in AI, EPS and PSD file formats, it features well-structured layers and is fully editable. It comes in a print-ready A4 sizing (210mm x 297mm with 3mm bleed) and a high-resolution CMYK 300 DPI.

Modern Halloween Flyer Template

This flyer is perfect for a variety of uses, including for promoting Halloween-themed parties and events. With its creative color and theme, it comes in A4 size and fully editable design.  You can easily change the color, fonts, images, and other items. You can add your own images as well.

Spooky Halloween Movie Party Flyer

This spooky Halloween flyer template is perfect for whipping up impressive flyers for any event. This easy-to-use, A4 design template comes with editable text tools, multiple shapes, backgrounds, and titles. It is equipped with PSD, AI, EPS files, and a help file.

Unique Halloween Flyer Template

This is a creative mockup for creating fun and entertaining Halloween-themed flyer designs. It comes with a simple design with fully customizable colors, fonts, objects, and photos. The A4-sized template includes well-organized layers and it’s print-ready with CMYK 300 DPI quality.

Fun Halloween Party Flyer

This is an enthusiastic, festive creative Halloween flyer perfect for promoting your upcoming party. This print-ready flyer comes in AI, EPS, and PSD formats making it easily editable. Noteworthy features include well-organized layers, full CMYK 300 DPI quality, and a versatile A4 size. This flyer will certainly add an extra touch of fun to your Halloween event.

Stylish Halloween Party Flyer Template

Grab this stylish Halloween party flyer template for quick and easy event promotion. It’s user-friendly, featuring an organized PSD file with editable layers, and is ready to print in A4 size with a high resolution of 300 DPI. It’s especially great for promoting grown-up Halloween events.

Minimal Halloween Flyer Template

This is a highly customizable Halloween party flyer perfect for all sorts of parties, events, and promotions. It includes a single A4 format flyer with editable colors, fonts, and objects. It is print-ready, organized, and fully modifiable with a resolution of 300 DPI in CMYK color.

Halloween Party Flyer Template

This stylish flyer template comes with a colorful and a fun design made specifically for spreading the word about your Halloween-themed parties. It features an easily customizable layout that can be used to promote club events, festivals, and more. The template is available in A4 and A5 sizes.

Creative Halloween Flyer Template

This is a Halloween party flyer template that comes with a creative design that will surely attract the attention of your audience. You can use it to create flyers for parties, festivals, events, and more. The template comes in an editable PSD file with organized layers and vector shapes.

Halloween Trick Or Treat Flyer Template

If you’re looking for inspiration to design a Halloween flyer or a poster for a kids event, this flyer template will come in handy. The template features an adorable design with cute illustrations for promoting Halloween-themed parties, trick or treats, and other events. The template comes in both Illustrator and Photoshop file formats.

Halloween Rock Party Flyer Template

Halloween is also a time where you see lots of fun music festivals and events. This is a flyer template designed to help promote those music events and DJ parties. The template comes with a unique Halloween-themed design for promoting Rock music events. All the items in the design are available as vectors for easily editing them to your preference.

Halloween Live Music Flyer

This Halloween flyer template features a minimalist design with colors that clearly highlight its message. The template comes in a print-ready PSD file that you can easily customize however you like. It’s perfect for promoting Halloween live music events, parties, and other events as well.

Halloween Music Night Flyer

With this creative flyer template, you’ll be able to promote your Halloween music events, open-mic parties, and other fun activities using a clever and humorous design. The flyer template is fully customizable as it comes in AI and PSD formats featuring vector objects. You can easily edit text and change colors to match your own themes.

Monster Mash Halloween Flyer Template

This colorful flyer template has a cute monster-theme that is perfect for promoting all kinds of Halloween events and even special Halloween-themed sales and business promotions. The template features vector objects and comes in AI and PSD formats to let you edit the file using your favorite editor.

Modern Halloween Party Flyer

This creative Halloween party flyer template comes with a design that makes it easier to highlight the important details of your events. It’s ideal for promoting live music events, festivals, parties, and much more. The template comes with organized layers and it’s easily customizable. You’ll need Photoshop CS5 or higher to edit this file.

Spooky Halloween Flyer Template

The use of real images and spooky black and white colors make this flyer template a more suitable choice for designing flyers and posters for grown-ups. The template comes to you in a customizable PSD file in A4 size. It features organized layers for easy editing and customizing the design.

Halloween Pumpkin Party Flyer Template

Halloween is the only time of the year when pumpkins look scary. This flyer truly captures that into its design with a creepy pumpkin. The template comes in both A4 and A5 sizes as well.

Halloween Zombie Party Flyer Template

Everyone loves zombies. This flyer template comes with a creative zombie-themed design that makes it suitable for both kids and grownups. The template is available in PSD, AI, and EPS formats.

Halloween Club Party Flyer

A modern Halloween flyer template that’s most suitable for promoting Halloween-themed club events and parties. It comes with fully organized layers and in PSD file format.

Something Wicked Halloween Flyer Template

A Halloween flyer template featuring a classic design. This template will give your flyer and poster designs a unique and a scary look. You can easily customize the PSD file to change colors and text as well.

Colorful Halloween Party Flyer Template

Featuring lots of colors and adorable illustrations, this flyer template will help you design the perfect promotional flyer or poster for kids. It comes in A4 and A5 sizes and in both AI and PSD file formats to let you customize the template to your preference.

Halloween Skull Party Flyer Template

Another spooky Halloween party flyer template you can use to promote special events, club parties, house parties, and more. This flyer is more suitable for grownups as well. It comes in an easily customizable PSD file.

Halloween House Party Flyer

This fun and colorful party flyer template will make your Halloween flyers look like a poster from a movie. You can use it to promote club events, house parties, and much more.

Minimal Halloween Flyer Template

A Halloween flyer template with a dark theme. This template uses minimal colors to create a truly spooky design. It’s ideal for promoting all grown-up parties, events, and festivals. It’s available in A4 size.

Halloween Flyer Template PSD

This colorful Halloween flyer template comes in 2 different versions with different colors. It’s available in PSD format with fully organized layers. It’s perfect for promoting Halloween festivals and parties.

Scary Halloween Flyer Template

This spooky Halloween flyer template features a design that gives out a scary Stephen King IT vibe. It will surely grab anyone’s attention and effectively promote your events at the same time.

You can also check out our best Halloween fonts collection to find a typeface to design your own spooky flyers.