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Want to give your design a quick facelift? Using new and interesting typography trends might be the answer. Designers are using bold colors, cutouts, gradients, and even customizations to create lettering that stands out.

Changing typefaces or recreating an image or header in a trending style can give a design a fresh look without a full-scale overhaul. Not sure where to start? This list features typography trends with examples to use as inspiration for how to use them.

Here’s a look at the top typography trends this year.

1. Brutalism Typography

Brutalism design is one of the few and rare design trends that survived many decades. This trend dates back to the 1950s. It started out as a design trend in architecture and later inspired many print and digital designs, including graphic design, web design, and even typography.

Brutalist typography is simple and straightforward. There are no fancy typography elements or decorative shapes necessary to convey the idea. It’s simply text with clean, clear-cut letterforms and it gets the job done.

More designers are adopting this design trend to create striking typography for various designs ranging from posters to website headers. It especially works well for bold, raw, and Monochromatic-style designs.

2. Liquid Text

Giving a melting or liquid look to your typography is nothing new. You’ve probably seen it used by food and drink brands. However, there’s a new variant of this trend sweeping across the digital design world.

This new variant of liquid text design only liquefies parts of the letters to create a unique hybrid look. Designers are using this trend in various ways by combining it with other design trends like outline text and retro fonts.

The unique look this trend creates fits perfectly for trendy brands and timely marketing campaigns, especially for fashion and lifestyle branding designs.

3. Ink Traps

Ink trap is a popular technique used in print design when printing in small sizes where corners get removed from letters to trap the ink. So when it gets printed, the ink spreads to those removed areas, preventing the ink from spreading outward.

Ironically, this inspired a new trend in modern digital typography. We are now seeing new fonts being created inspired by ink traps featuring letterforms with deep corners, mimicking the ink trap-style design.

It certainly adds a very unique look to typography and gives a distinctive vibe to titles and headings.

4. Bubbly Text

Bubble fonts and typography are making a comeback. Inspired by typography designs from the groovy 1970s, this bubble text trend can now be seen everywhere.

The fun, creative, and playful look it adds to the text is unmatched. It’s one of the many reasons why designers choose this style to create titles and text for brands with playful vibes.

The bubbly text trend also comes in many different styles and variations, including ones with balloon-style letterforms as well as urban graffiti-style letters.

5. Big, Chunky Titles

When it comes to creating titles that instantly grab attention, nothing beats a good old-fashioned big, chunky letter design. That’s part of why this typography trend has survived many decades and is still relevant today.

Designing titles and headings with big, chunky letterforms is the most effective way to craft typography that stands out. This trend also has diverse use cases across various genres. With a slightly playful font, you can make it fit in with a lifestyle brand. Or with a clean-cut letter design, you can use it for a luxury brand.

6. Art Deco Typography

The beautiful symmetrical lines and sharp edges of the Art Deco style completely transform the look and feel of typography. The blend of elegance and sophistication it brings is unmatched by any other design trend. It’s no wonder why this typography trend has survived longer than a century.

Over the past few months, we saw many brands and marketers use the Art Deco trend to their advantage to create typography that evokes a sense of nostalgia and takes people back to a time when things were simpler.

Art Deco typography is also often used in visual storytelling, especially on websites, posters, and packaging designs. Clearly, it’s a trend that will evolve and stay relevant for many more years ahead.

7. Psychedelic Fonts

The psychedelic design trend has been a popular choice among designers who seek to break free from the traditional and common ways. And it has now made its way over to typography as well.

The bold shapes, curves, and distorted letters of the psychedelic fonts give logos, titles, and badges a unique look inspired by the aesthetics of the 1960s and the hippy culture. The psychedelic typography trend does a great job of bringing out a chill and relaxing feeling while also mixing a sense of a rebellious vibe.

8. Urban Graffiti Titles

Lately, we’ve been seeing less and less graffiti art out on the streets. Graffiti art is one the purest forms of creative expression, especially the graffiti typography is something that always catches your eye. So we’re glad to see this art form transform into the digital world.

Designers have been using graffiti-style typography with various types of graphic designs over the past few years and it seems to be growing in demand. The main reason for the popularity of this typography trend is its ability to create a bold, urban vibe with a gritty aesthetic. The raw, real-world look of the graffiti typography is quite unmatched.

9. Retro Disco Text

The disco era is a time period that everyone longs for regardless of age. The current revival and popularity of disco-style music among modern musicians prove that even the younger generations are enjoying this trend.

As a result of this newfound desire for the disco era, disco-style retro typography is also making a comeback. Nothing beats this typography trend when it comes to creating titles and text that exude fun and energetic vibes.

The blend of retro rainbow colors, sparking elements, and classic weathered textures make this trend one of the best for designing typography for everything from posters to brand logos and much more.

10. Elegant Royal Fonts

This growing typography trend is the go-to choice among many luxury and high-end brands that seek to convey a sense of authority and class. The way it creates a sophisticated and regal look often adds a Royalty-like vibe to any logo, badge, label, or packaging design.

Often used in combination with gold colors, royal-like ornaments, and stylishly curved letterforms, the royal typography trend often succeeds in enhancing the luxurious feel of various types of designs.

Elegant royal-style fonts are also a great choice for adding an authentic and traditional look to create a timeless feel for any digital and print design.

11. Neo-Futuristic Techno Vibes

When talking about futuristic techno-style designs your mind often goes to neon colors and Cyberpunk-style designs. But that’s not what this new trend is all about. Neo-futuristic techno typography offers a much more gritty and bold vibe for creating a strong futuristic industrial look.

This trend is often seen on modern websites and poster designs as it helps create better visibility for your text and titles. The fonts designed in this style often have sharp letterforms with monospaced characters. It also uses strong contrasting colors to make your text pop with a clean, minimal, and stylish look.

12. 3D Text

The 3D typography trend is evolving beyond just blocky, extruded text into more creative styles with perspective views and unique letterform designs.

With easier access to 3D modeling tools like Blender and new 3D tools in Adobe Illustrator, crafting these unique 3D typography designs is now much easier than ever.

Especially when designing with a retro-futuristic style, the 3D text and typography fit perfectly for creating a more immersive look and feel. This trend will likely evolve beyond this year and last for many more years ahead.

13. Variable Fonts

Variable fonts are slowly gaining in popularity as more designers are choosing the new format for their design projects. There are many benefits to using a variable font in your designs and having flexibility is one of them.

When using variable fonts, you have the flexibility to create unique typography with different styles of letterforms, weights, and features without having to use multiple fonts. Variable fonts come with multiple styles packed into one font.

Designers are now finding unique ways to take advantage of this technology to create incredible typefaces with inventive designs.

14. Rounded Typography

The rounded typography trend has been around for several years. However, designers are now taking this trend to new heights by leveraging the new tools available in design software such as Photoshop and Illustrator.

These new rounded typography designs feature more geometric-style rounded letterforms with a soft and aesthetically pleasing look for big titles and headings. Today, the trend is often used in branding designs and packaging designs.

15. Vertical Text

Usually, we don’t recommend throwing readability out the window but it appears to be the latest trend to take over the design world, especially website designs. This trend will have you tilting your head sideways, literally.

Actually, it’s a clever way to grab attention and engage with the website visitors. It arouses your curiosity and makes you tilt your to read the text.

Designing text and titles sideways in a vertical alignment will also work for banners and posters. You should use large and bold fonts with a clean letter design for this strategy to work more effectively.

16. Unaligned Text

Oftentimes, when designers defy the rules and guidelines, things don’t go well. This new trend is a rare exception where we can disregard the guidelines to make unique typography creations.

Keeping text aligned is an important part of designing typography. This guideline is quite important when designing websites as well as other mediums of digital and print designs. However, breaking this rule seems to be one of the most popular typography trends these days.

We’ve been seeing this unaligned text trend everywhere from websites to posters, album covers, social media posts, and everything in between. Without a doubt, we’ll be seeing it throughout this year too.

17. Mixed Typefaces

Surely, you must’ve thought about this once or twice while designing fun title designs for projects. Mixing multiple typefaces to design a title sounds fun but we are often afraid to go there. Well, now you have permission to try it out thanks to this new trend.

The BMW Motorrad website uses clever animation to infuse this mixed typeface design in a subtle way. However, you don’t have to go to such extreme levels. You can start by blending a few outline and condensed fonts with your regular typography designs.

Admittedly, we haven’t seen this trend a lot but we hope it will catch on this year.

18. Stretched-Out Titles

We’ve seen ultra-condensed title designs, tall and narrow typography designs, but this new trend combines them together to spawn a new way to craft titles by simply stretching them out as much as you can.

It doesn’t matter which way you stretch it. You can stretch it vertically or horizontally. You could also stretch just a couple of letters while the rest of the letters stay the same. The result will always be something pretty wild.

The good news is you don’t always have to go into free transform mode to stretch your text. There are now fonts out there with stretched-out letter designs made for this new trend.

19. Fullscreen Titles

The title is arguably the most important element of most graphic and web designs. You often try different trends and strategies to try and bring more attention to it. So, why not make it as big as the entire canvas and be done with it?

Well, that’s exactly what this new trend is all about. Basically, you just make the title as big as the screen or the design canvas. You can use tall and bold fonts to grab extra attention as well.

It’s a very simple and easy way to make your typography designs stand out, especially for making bold statements.

20. Pixelated Fonts

Pixelated style of text and typography designs is quite popular among tech brands and startups. It adds a subtle tech-savvy look to any design that’s also relatable and familiar to many people who grew up playing pixel-art video games.

Intentionally adding a pixelated look to text is now much easier with many pixelated fonts to choose from. These fonts come in various styles ranging from the classic 8-bit style to modern pixel art designs.

Whether it’s to add a bit of nostalgia to your designs or to make titles look more playful, this is a typography trend that’s worth keeping an eye out for this year.

21. Neon Outline

This isn’t exactly a new trend but it is something that we are likely to see growing this year. Inspired by the bright neon signs from the 80s and the 90s, this typography design gives a classic retro look to your titles with neon glowing outline letters.

Adopting this trend is also much easier than most other trends on our list. All you have to do is find an outline font and apply a neon glowing effect.

You can add more style and appeal to it with animations. In the above example, the website uses a subtle flickering effect to make the text look more like a glitching neon sign.

22. Thin and Condensed

The next two trends have a very yin and yang feel to them. Here, thin and condensed lettering is gaining popularity. Once taboo, a predominance of high-resolution screens has made this style of typography more readable and easier to work with.

Again, this trend needs just the right words and typeface to be effective and works best when you aren’t delving into exceptionally long blocks of text.

In the example above, thin and condensed lettering perfectly fits the style of the overall design and is complemented on the scroll with a monospaced, highly readable option.

23. Slabs

On the other end of the spectrum from thin typefaces is the use of slabs.

While bold headline options have always been rather popular, many designers have shied away from going all-in with slabs because, like caps, they can seem to scream at users. The trick is to combine spacing, short phrasing, and readable typefaces so that usage is an asset, not a challenge.

What we love about the example above is the use of a smaller slab headline at the bottom of the homepage, with super friendly and soft imagery to balance the weight of the font itself. It highlights the importance of the words in an approachable way.

24. Outline Fonts

Outline fonts are a big deal.

You’ll find this trend mostly in the hero area of web pages for the main copy. While uses vary somewhat there are a few elements that you’ll find almost every time:

• Sans serif typeface
• All caps text for outline letters
• Paired with filled lettering
• Oversized text elements

Outline font options can be a lot of fun to use. You just have to be cautious when it comes to readability. Letters can get lost in background images and videos quickly. So take care with color, contrast, and placement.

And don’t overdo it. An outline font works best for a point of emphasis, not to create your entire message.

25. “Unreadable” Layers

The next two typography trends and somewhat similar and both break an unexpected rule: They are a bit unreadable. But that’s ok because the rest of the design fills in the blanks and keeps the site interactive.

In this example of the trend, oversized text elements are in a layer behind a foreground element. Every other type element on the screen is highly readable to provide plenty of support for the element that isn’t.

The foreground object also, in the example above, fades in and out over the text so that you can read it back and forth.

The final element that helps pull it all together is the idea that the word isn’t vital to the design. It’s the brand name, which you might know from the logotype, but is less important than what the company/website does.

26. Text That Goes Off the Screen

Following the trend of “unreadable” layers are text elements that lose readability because they animate on and off the screen. This typography effect is all over the place and often paired with an oversized font and just a couple of words that scroll toward the left side of the screen.

This typography trend works best when there’s not a lot of other motion on the screen and the words are readable with just a few seconds of watching. If the text is too complicated, you risk users never figuring out what the words say.

As with the previous example, make sure the supporting text elements provide plenty of information so that people know exactly what the design is about.

27. Experimental Typefaces

Experimental typefaces are all the rage with expressive and interesting styles that add plenty of personality to design projects. Experimental typefaces come in a lot of different forms – they may include funky shapes or strokes, color, or animation.

The best part about these type-styles is that they can inject a unique, and very specific, vibe into a project.

You can find experimental typefaces from several different foundries or independent type designers. If you want to take a peek at some new experimental options, head over to Typelab.

28. Short, Fat Fonts (Low X-Heights)

Another type style that is trending in a major way is typefaces that have short stature and wide stance. Many of these typefaces feature all-caps character sets, but when they feature lowercase letters, can be identified by a low x-height.

This type style tends to work best when there’s not a lot competing with it on the canvas. It’s also best suited for shorter words or phrases, due to readability.

These short, fat fonts also work best for designs that have a super-modern feel. They are almost futuristic in scope and design in many instances.

29. Handwriting Styles

The Sharpie marker style is quite popular among website designers when it comes to display typefaces. And there are plenty of handwriting typefaces to choose from so that you get just the right look and feel.

Much of the current handwriting typeface trend is focused on printed letters with upper and lowercase characters with thicker strokes and a bit of roughness to them.

Typefaces might also include little extra embellishments that make certain characters feel even more special. When it comes to handwriting styles with more cursive or script-type designs, you are likely to find long tails and elaborate swashes.

30. Subtle Gradients

Designers just can’t seem to get enough of gradients. (I’ll admit to being one of them!)

Subtle gradients as an accent in typography are the next evolution of this trend.

What’s nice about the trend is that gradients are so subtle that you might not even see them at first. There’s just a slight variance in the color that helps pull the eye across the lettering.

Gradients are best used with thicker typefaces and to accent specific words or phrases.

Be careful not to overdo it too much. A good text gradient maintains consistent contrast across the word so that it’s not jarring to read and so that it stands apart from the background.

31. Animated Typography

One of the biggest overall trends in design is animation. And there’s no reason this can’t apply to typography as well.

More designs are using lettering that moves, shifts, or is impacted by a hover state (such as the example above). All of these techniques can lead to a more interactive, richer user experience.

When animating text, it’s important to consider how and where users will be reading the information (some animated elements such as video don’t work well on all mobile devices yet). Make accommodations so that even if the animation doesn’t work properly, there’s still a worthwhile user experience where messaging is clear.

In that regard, the best text animations often start with lettering that is clear and easy to see. Animation comes into play after a delay or as part of user interaction. This can delight and surprise users (maybe even resulting in more time on-site).

Consider speed carefully with typography animations – if the text moves too fast, users will miss the message completely; if the text moves too slowly, users might click away before reading all of the content. It must be just right. (User testing can help you find an ideal speed.)

32. Stacked Text Blocks

While typography is trending toward being somewhat smaller in size, it still carries just as much weight. Designers are stacking multiple lines of text, particularly in hero headers, for a weighted message with more words.

The trend is important to note because it shows a shift in trying to communicate a little more fully with users and less of an expectation that one word will be enough to entice someone to engage with a design. More information presented in a visually engaging way can be a better solution that leads to more user engagement.

The key considerations when it comes to stacking multiple lines of text are to find a typeface that is readable when used with more letters (or even when used in all caps, which is a popular option), has adequate linespacing so that lines are easy to distinguish and that breaks in the copy are logical. When stacking text, there should be a distinct flow from line to line that’s both obvious in how to read the words and that users should move to the next line of copy before any other part of the design.

Because of challenges with line breaks and ease of reading, text stacks are often on one side of the screen so that the designer has more control. This structure can also create harmony between a text element and another visual on the screen for an asymmetrical balance that’s appealing to look at.

33. Color Fonts and Type

Color fonts are a class of type of their own and have popped up all over the place. They’re more popular than many originally expected and have fun applications in design projects.

You can read all about color fonts here in our beginner’s guide. The concept of color fonts has opened up more projects to color in typography overall as well.

While there was a lot of black and white text in more minimalist styles, colors are roaring back. Many designers are using bright color typography with minimal styles, such as the Tilted Chair, above. Color can add extra visual interest and emphasis on the words in color.

Bright options, such as the red in the example, help draw the eye and serve as a great springboard for messaging, building brand identity, and drawing users into the design.

34. Cutouts and Overlays

 

 

Layered effects are a great way to make a design look a lot less flat. Doing it with typography can be a nice option.

Cutouts and overlays refer to text elements that have no color fill. A cutout allows whatever is in the background layer to show through the type design, such as the animated sports imagery in the example above. An overlay is often transparent lettering over a background so that you can see the background through letters while still reading them.

Both of these techniques have a lot of visual interest and can be fun to create. They work best with large lettering, not many words, and a display typeface.

Overlays work great with photos, textures, or even video backgrounds. Just make sure to avoid a lot of other design effects when using this technique. (You don’t want to overwhelm the user.)

35. Layering with Other Elements

 

 

In most projects, text elements and other elements are kept fairly separate. But that idea has changed quite a bit and designers aren’t shying away from allowing text and other elements to overlap. The end result can be pretty cool and actually help users focus on the words on the screen a little more.

While the most common uses of the typography trend in practice are text elements that overlap boxed images or color, MJND kicks it up a notch. This design merges the person in the image with typography so that it is cut out around him (like the person is walking into the words).

This is a technique that comes from print design where it is more popular – and quite honestly easier to execute – and can create a stunning display. The trick is having the right image and maintaining the readability of every single letter. (Be careful not to create unintended words because of missing character strokes or parts.)

36. “Overdone” Effects

It’s not often that “overdone” is used favorably when talking about any design technique. But when it comes to the overdone typography trend, it can work.

This type trend has a retro feel and is characterized by text and text effects that are so over the top that you must read the words. There are outlines and shadows and bevels and fades and crazy colors. No effect is off the table.

And the more effects you pile on, the more users might look. This style works best with a simple design scheme, such as Schnitzel Love, above.

Conclusion

When using these trends in your designs, remember to carefully analyze your brand style and target audience to ensure they match the message your designs are conveying.

Be sure to bookmark and follow our Trends category to stay on top of all kinds of design trends.

Accessibility is key in modern web design. A site that doesn’t consider how its user experience may differ for various audiences — especially those with disabilities — will fail to engage and serve everyone equally. One of the best ways to prevent this is to approach your site from a bottom-up perspective.

Understanding Bottom-Up Design

Conventional, top-down design approaches start with the big picture before breaking these goals and concepts into smaller details. Bottom-up philosophies, by contrast, consider the minute details first, eventually achieving the broader goal piece by piece.

This alternative way of thinking is important for accessibility in general because it reflects how neurodivergent people commonly think. While non-autistic people tend to think from a top-down perspective, those with autism often employ a bottom-up way of thinking.

Of course, there is considerable variation, and researchers have identified at least three specialist thinking types within the autism spectrum:

• Visual thinkers who think in images;
• Pattern thinkers who think of concepts in terms of patterns and relationships;
• Verbal thinkers who think only in word detail.

Still, research shows that people with autism and ADHD show a bias toward bottom-up thinking rather than the top-down approach you often see in neurotypical users. Consequently, a top-down strategy means you may miss details your audience may notice, and your site may not feel easily usable for all users.

As a real-world example, consider the task of writing an essay. Many students are instructed to start an essay assignment by thinking about the main point they want to convey and then create an outline with points that support the main argument. This is top-down thinking — starting with the big picture of the topic and then gradually breaking down the topic into points and then later into words that articulate these points.

In contrast, someone who uses a bottom-up thinking approach might start an essay with no outline but rather just by freely jotting down every idea that comes to mind as it comes to mind — perhaps starting with one particular idea or example that the writer finds interesting and wants to explore further and branching off from there. Then, once all the ideas have been written out, the writer goes back to group related ideas together and arrange them into a logical outline. This writer starts with the small details of the essay and then works these details into the big picture of the final form.

In web design, in particular, a bottom-up approach means starting with the specifics of the user experience instead of the desired effect. You may determine a readable layout for a single blog post, then ask how that page relates to others and slowly build on these decisions until you have several well-organized website categories.

You may even get more granular. Say you start your site design by placing a menu at the bottom of a mobile site to make it easier to tap with one hand, improving ease of use. Then, you build a drop-down menu around that choice — placing the most popular or needed options at the bottom instead of the top for easy tapping. From there, you may have to rethink larger-scale layouts to work around those interactive elements being lower on the screen, slowly addressing larger categories until you have a finished site design.

In either case, the idea of bottom-up design is to begin with the most specific problems someone might have. You then address them in sequence instead of determining the big picture first.

Benefits Of A Bottom-Up Approach For Accessible Design

While neither bottom-up nor top-down approaches dominate the industry, some web engineers prefer the bottom-up approach due to the various accessibility benefits this process provides. This strategy has several accessibility benefits.

Putting User Needs First

The biggest benefit of bottom-up methods is that they prioritize the user’s needs.

Top-down approaches seem organized, but they often result in a site that reflects the designer’s choices and beliefs more than it serves your audience.

Consider some of the complaints that social media users have made over the years related to usability and accessibility for the everyday user. For example, many users complain that their Facebook feed will randomly refresh as they scroll for the sake of providing users with the most up-to-date content. However, the feature makes it virtually impossible to get back to a post a user viewed that they didn’t think to save. Likewise, TikTok’s watch history feature has come and gone over the years and still today is difficult for many users to find without viewing an outside tutorial on the subject.

This is a common problem: 95.9% of the largest one million homepages have Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) errors. While a bottom-up alternative doesn’t mean you won’t make any mistakes, it may make them less likely, as bottom-up thinking often improves your awareness of new stimuli so you can catch things you’d otherwise overlook. It’s easier to meet user’s needs when you build your entire site around their experience instead of looking at UX as an afterthought.

Consider this example from Berkshire Hathaway, a multi-billion-dollar holding company. The overall design philosophy is understandable: It’s simple and direct, choosing to focus on information instead of fancy aesthetics that may not suit the company image. However, you could argue it loses itself in this big picture.

While it is simple, the lack of menus or color contrast and the small font make it harder to read and a little overwhelming. This confusion can counteract any accessibility benefits of its simplicity.

Alternatively, even a simple website redesign could include intuitive menus, additional contrast, and accessible font for easy navigation across the site.

The homepage for U.K. charity Scope offers a better example of web design centered around users’ needs. Concise, clear menus line the top of the page to aid quicker, easier navigation. The color scheme is simple enough to avoid confusion but provides enough contrast to make everything easy to read — something the sans-serif font further helps.

Ensuring Accessibility From The Start

A top-down method also makes catering to a diverse audience difficult because you may need to shoehorn features into an existing design.

For example, say, a local government agency creates a website focused on providing information and services to a general audience of residents. The site originally featured high-resolution images, bright colors, and interactive charts.

However, they realize the images are not accessible to people navigating the site with screen readers, while multiple layers of submenus are difficult for keyboard-only users. Further, the bright colors make it hard for visually impaired users to read the site’s information.

The agency, realizing these accessibility concerns, adds captions to each image. However, the captions disrupt the originally intended visual aesthetics and user flow. Further, adjusting the bright colors would involve completely rethinking the site’s entire color palette. If these considerations had been made before the site was built, the site build could have specifically accommodated these elements while still creating an aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly result.

Alternatively, a site initially built with high contrast, a calm color scheme, clear typography, simple menus, and reduced imagery would make this site much more accessible to a wide user base from the get-go.

As a real-world example, consider the Awwwards website. There are plenty of menus to condense information and ease navigation without overloading the screen — a solid accessibility choice. However, there does not seem to be consistent thought in these menus’ placement or organization.

There are far too many menus; some are at the top while others are at the bottom, and a scrolling top bar adds further distractions. It seems like Awwwards may have added additional menus as an afterthought to improve navigation. This leads to inconsistencies and crowding because they did not begin with this thought.

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Bottom-up alternatives address usability issues from the beginning, which results in a more functional, accessible website.

Redesigning a system to address a usability issue it didn’t originally make room for is challenging. It can lead to errors like broken links and other unintended consequences that may hinder access for other visitors. Some sites have even claimed to lose 90% of their traffic after a redesign. While bottom-up approaches won’t eliminate those possibilities, they make them less likely by centering everything around usage from the start.

The website for the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, showcases a more cohesive approach to ensuring accessibility. Like Awwwards, it uses menus to aid navigation and organization, but there seems to be more forethought into these features. All menus are at the top, and there are fewer of them, resulting in less clutter and a faster way to find what you’re looking for. The overall design complements this by keeping things simple and neat so that the menus stand out.

Increasing Awareness

Similarly, bottom-up design ensures you don’t miss as many accessibility concerns. When you start at the top, before determining what details fit within it, you may not consider all the factors that influence it. Beginning with the specifics instead makes it easier to spot and address problems you would’ve missed otherwise.

This awareness is particularly important for serving a diverse population. An estimated 16% of the global population — 1.6 billion people — have a significant disability. That means there’s a huge range of varying needs to account for, but most people lack firsthand experience living with these conditions. Consequently, it’s easy to miss things impacting others’ UX. You can overcome that knowledge gap by asking how everyone can use your site first.

Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down: Which Is Best for You?

As these benefits show, a bottom-up design philosophy can be helpful when building an accessible site. Still, top-down methods can be advantageous at times, too. Which is best depends on your situation.

Top-down approaches are a good way to ensure a consistent brand image, as you start with the overall idea and base future decisions on this concept. It also makes it easier to create a design hierarchy to facilitate decision-making within your team. When anyone has a question, they can turn to whoever is above them or refer to the broader goals. Such organization can also mean faster design processes.

Bottom-up methods, by contrast, are better when accessibility for a diverse audience is your main concern. It may be harder to keep everyone on the same overall design philosophy page, but it usually produces a more functional website. You can catch and solve problems early and pay great attention to detail. However, this can mean longer design cycles, which can incur extra costs.

It may come down to what your team is most comfortable with. People think and work differently, with some preferring a top-down approach while others find bottom-up more natural. Combining the two — starting with a top-down model before tackling updates from a bottom-up perspective — can be beneficial, too.

Strategies For Implementing A Bottom-Up Design Model

Should you decide a bottom-up design method is best for your goals, here are some ways you can embrace this philosophy.

Talk To Your Existing User Base

One of the most important factors in bottom-up web design is to center everything around your users. As a result, your existing user base — whether from a separate part of your business or another site you run — is the perfect place to start.

Survey customers and web visitors about their experience on your sites and others. Ask what pain points they have and what features they’d appreciate. Any commonalities between responses deserve attention. You can also turn to WCAG standards for inspiration on accessible functionality, but first-hand user feedback should form the core of your mission.

Look To Past Projects For Accessibility Gaps

Past sites and business projects can also reveal what specifics you should start with. Look for any accessibility gaps by combing through old customer feedback and update histories and using these sites yourself to find issues. Take note of any barriers or usability concerns to address in your next website.

Remember to document everything you find as you go. Up to 90% of organizations’ data is unstructured, making it difficult to analyze later. Reversing that trend by organizing your findings and recording your accessible design process will streamline future accessibility optimization efforts.

Divide Tasks But Communicate Often

Keep in mind that a bottom-up strategy can be time-consuming. One of the reasons why top-down alternatives are popular is because they’re efficient. You can overcome this gap by splitting tasks between smaller teams. However, these groups must communicate frequently to ensure separate design considerations work as a cohesive whole.

A DevOps approach is helpful here. DevOps has helped 49% of its adopters achieve a faster time to market, and 61% report higher-quality deliverables. It also includes space for both detailed work and team-wide meetings to keep everyone on track. Such benefits ensure you can remain productive in a bottom-up strategy.

Accessible Websites Need A Bottom-Up Design Approach

You can’t overstate the importance of accessible website design. By the same token, bottom-up philosophies are crucial in modern site-building. A detail-oriented approach makes it easier to serve a more diverse audience along several fronts. Making the most of this opportunity will both extend your reach to new niches and make the web a more equitable place.

The Web Accessibility Initiative’s WCAG standards are a good place to start. While these guidelines don’t necessarily describe how to apply a bottom-up approach, they do outline critical user needs and accessibility concerns your design should consider. The site also offers a free and comprehensive Digital Accessibility Foundations course for designers and developers.

Familiarizing yourself with these standards and best practices will make it easier to understand your audience before you begin designing your site. You can then build a more accessible platform from the ground up.

Additionally, the following are some valuable related reads that can act as inspiration in accessibility-centered and user-centric design.

• Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind by Regine M. Gilbert
• Practical Web Inclusion and Accessibility: A Comprehensive Guide to Access Needs by Ashley Firth
• Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug

By employing bottom-up thinking as well as resources like these in your design approach, you can create websites that not only meet current accessibility standards but actively encourage site use among users of all backgrounds and abilities.

Further Reading On SmashingMag

• “Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size,” Eric Bailey
• “How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility,” Vitaly Friedman
• “A Guide To Accessible Form Validation,” Sandrina Pereira
• “Creating A High-Contrast Design System With CSS Custom Properties,” Brecht De Ruyte

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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s time to prepare for the delicious Thanksgiving dinners and big bellies. And of course, it’s also time to bring out your fall and Thanksgiving fonts for all the banners, flyers, posters, and greeting card designs.

In this roundup, you’ll find a blend of free and premium fonts ready for your festive designs. Whether you’re working on a Thanksgiving dinner invitation, an autumn-themed blog post, or a fall sale advertisement, these fall and Thanksgiving fonts will add a seasonal touch to your projects, helping your designs stand out with a seasonal vibe.

From elegant serifs to playful scripts, each Thanksgiving font selection has been crafted to give your designs a stunning aesthetic appeal, enhance readability, and engage your audience. So dive in, and let’s get ready to transform your autumn and Thanksgiving design projects with these beautiful and versatile fall fonts.

Gratefully – Slab Serif Thanksgiving Font

Gratefully is an exciting slab serif font with a unique ‘fall’ theme, ideal for creative Thanksgiving projects. Its bouncy, handmade letters deliver a fun and unique result, perfect for cutting, printing, greeting cards, and merchandise. Offering standard uppercase, lowercase, numerals, symbols, and select ligatures, it fits various software formats including otf, ttf, and woff (Web Font).

Thankful Sunday – Thanksgiving Font Duo

Thankful Sunday is a unique, hand-written font duo, perfect for your Thanksgiving-themed designs. It includes a primary font and an additional doodle font packed with charming illustrations. Available in otf, ttf, and woff file types, this third-party design tool is excellent for adding a personal and festive touch to your projects.

Fall Pies – Modern Handwritten Fall Font

Fall Pies is a modern, handwritten font that is perfect for a variety of uses. Whether you’re designing greeting cards, invitations, posters, or logos, Fall Pies adds a charming, autumnal touch to your work. The font, provided in .otf and .ttf formats, includes both uppercase and lowercase varieties. Try it out for a fresh, seasonal look.

Hello Thankies – Thanksgiving Themed Font

Check out Hello Thankies, a delightful Thanksgiving-themed font duo that’s designed to infuse warm, festive vibes into any project. This unique collection includes two fonts, along with an exclusive ‘Thankies Doodle’ for an added touch of creativity. Whether it’s for branding, posters, clothing, or for that special Thanksgiving decoration, Hello Thankies is a charming solution.

Autumn Brush – Thanksgiving Font

Autumn Brush is a colorful, handcrafted font that brings an energetic and realistic touch to your design projects. With its lively, textured character set, it’s ideal for logos, posters, invites and anything requiring a dash of creativity and warmth.

Holifall Autumn – Tropical Fall Font

Holifall Autumn is a unique and authentic display font perfect for diverse needs. Offering a variety of themes and font styles, it comes in regular OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats. This font is perfect for giving a simple and creative fall vibe to your various seasonal design projects.

Golden Harvest – Fall Font

Golden Harvest is a contemporary, handwritten style font that provides a captivating touch to your designs. It includes upper and lower case letters, numerals, and standard punctuations. It also showcases accents, stunning ligatures, and stylistic sets.

Happy Thanksgiving – Handwritten Script Font

Happy Thanksgiving is a charming handwritten script font that seamlessly melds the warm, festive ambiance of numerous holidays. Beautifully encapsulating the essence of autumn and the cheer of the holiday season, this versatile font adds a touch of artful creativity to your projects.

Beauty Autumn – Simple Handwritten Font

Beauty Autumn is a versatile font perfect for sprucing up your digital and printed materials. Its handwritten style brings an intimate, personal touch to your projects, whether it’s for branding, posters, or social media posts. With included OTF, WOFF, and TTF files, it meets diverse design needs effortlessly.

Autumn Silent – Modern Handwritten Script Font

Autumn Silent, a modern handwritten script font, is an elegant addition to your digital and printed creations. With its stylistic appeal, it’s an incredible choice for enhancing posters, social media posts, branding, and personal projects. It is conveniently offered in OTF, WOFF, TTF and italic versions.

Retro Fall – Cute Fall Font

Retro Fall is a groovy, vintage-inspired font well-suited for various creative ventures. Its playful and authentic vibe makes it ideal for blog posts, logos, greeting cards, branding, or even planners and photo albums. The zip file includes both OTF and TTF files, allowing diverse usage for this unique typeface guaranteed to enhance your designs with a touch of nostalgia.

Lemon – Fall Thanksgiving Font

Lemon Font is a fun, refreshing blend of display and cute styles that add a burst of lively color to your creations. Ideal for seasonal and fun occasions, this whimsical font is perfect for projects that radiate positivity. Lemon Font brings the vibrant spirit of changing seasons to your crafting, decor, and embroidery projects.

Wonderland – Christmas & Thanksgiving Font

Wonderland is an elegantly designed, handwritten font that adds a touch of warmth and sophistication to various projects. Ideally suited for special occasions and festive themes, its graceful style enhances creations from wedding invitations and greeting cards to embroidery designs and unique crafts.

Thanksgiving Joy – Playful Font

Thanksgiving Joy is a cheerful, playful font that’s perfect for celebrating the festive season. The font comes with nine decorative options, all inspired by classic Thanksgiving motifs. Easy to install and use, it’s great for designing invitations, decorations, or logos for the holiday season.

Orange Leafy – Autumn Themed Font

Orange Leafy is a captivating Autumn-themed font. Its playful and vibrant style is great for Autumn branding, logos, invitations, stationery, social media posts, product packaging, merchandise, and more. Offering otf and ttf formats, ligatures, and multilingual support.

Falling Dried – Modern Fall Sans Serif Font

Falling Dried is a beautifully modern sans serif font exuding warmth and recalling the natural splendor of autumn. Its clean and minimal design gives letters a tranquil, soft look, making it perfect for projects that capture the season’s charm. The font, which comes in several formats including otf and ttf, works well for invitations, posters and more.

Fall Season – Handwritten Font

Fall Season is a somewhat wistful, handwritten font with a relaxed vibe that gives each design a unique and captivating touch. It’s perfect for logos, branding, and quotes, offering uppercase, lowercase, symbols, numerals, ligatures, alternates, and multilingual support. The font comes in OTF, TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 files, making it versatile for various projects.

Gobbie Gobble – Fun Thanksgiving Font

The Gobbie Gobble font evokes the playful spirit of Thanksgiving with its endearing handwritten style. Available in uppercase and lowercase, along with numerics and symbols, it offers versatility for your creative designs. Alongside, it includes 26 unique Thanksgiving-themed doodles accessible by typing A-Z, enhancing your artwork further. File formats include otf, ttf, and woff for the font and doodles.

Thanks Autumn – Handwritten Fall Font

Thanks Autumn handwritten font is an appealing, artistically crafted font that embodies the heart and warmth of the fall season. Displayed entirely in caps, it includes two different heights, numbers, symbols, and multilingual support. The asset provides OTF, TTF, WOFF files to suit your project needs. Perfect for any charming autumn-inspired project.

Barthley – Handlettering Fall Font

Barthley is an appealing handwritten font with a unique, natural style. Its versatility makes it ideal for a wide variety of designs. The font is user-friendly, easy to install on both PC & Mac and works seamlessly with popular software like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Microsoft Word, and more. It’s PUA encoded which allows for easy access to all its glyphs and swashes.

Gratefully – Slab Serif Thanksgiving Font

Gratefully is a playful, fall-themed slab serif font with a unique, handmade feel. Its bouncy and scribbled characteristics make it perfect for a range of creative projects like Thanksgiving invitations, greeting cards, and posters. Offering a variety of features, including standard uppercase, lowercase, numerals, symbols, and some ligatures, this font is compatible with most software platforms and comes in .otf, .ttf, and web font formats.

Savor Fall – Modern Fall Font

Savor Fall is a modern display typeface that captures the spirit of fall through its distinctive style that instills a warm sense of nostalgia. With delicate lines and gentle curves, the font lends softness and tranquility to your designs. Ideal for invitations, greeting cards, or posters, it infuses every project with an irresistibly natural touch. Available in both otf and ttf formats, with uppercase and lowercase options.

Maple Memories – Fall & Thanksgiving Font

Maple Memories is a beautifully intricate handwritten font that enhances any design with its versatile style. Offered in three formats (.otf, .ttf, .woff) and featuring multilingual support, from English to Zulu, it’s perfect for beginners and experts alike. The additional beginning and ending swash augment its elegance. Designed by Attype Studio, this creative asset is sure to bring your Fall and Thanksgiving projects to life!

Autumn Atmosphere – Creative Fall Font

Autumn Atmosphere is a distinctive and genuine display font, perfect for various branding projects like logos, seasonal decorations, greeting cards, and beyond. Its bold and adaptive style stands out in numerous contexts. The package includes OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats.

Happy Fall – Modern Handwritten Font

Step into Autumn with the Happy Fall handwritten font. Perfect for projects that want to carry the enchanting essence of fall, like invitations, greeting cards, or posters. This charming font features uppercase and lowercase versions along with multilingual support. It will sprinkle a natural and captivating touch on your design, wrapping it in a cozy autumn ambiance. Available in otf and ttf formats.

Turning Leaf – Fall Themed Font

The Turning Leaf is a charming fall-themed creative font. Its delicate lines and gentle curves evoke nostalgia for changing leaves and autumn tranquility, adding a dimension of softness to any design. This font, available in both uppercase and lowercase, is perfect for any project needing a warm, natural touch. It works beautifully on invitations, greeting cards, and posters, and supports multiple languages.

Warm Autumn – Fall & Thanksgiving Font

Warm Autumn is a distinctive, genuine display font with bold characters. It’s versatile enough for a variety of branding tasks, such as creating logos, greeting cards, and other projects that embrace the spirit of Autumn or summer. Available in OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats, Warm Autumn is a standout choice for a broad set of scenarios.

Lord de Ayodilla – Thanksgiving Style Font

The Lord de Ayodilla is a delightful font for livening up your holiday or spring-themed projects. Its dazzling serif-script style uniquely compliments any cheerful occasion. Perfect for creating engaging social media posts or holiday greeting cards, it even includes foreign language glyphs for added versatility. This font is available in .OTF and .TTF formats.

Autumn Orange – Fall Themed Font

Autumn Orange is a standout, genuine display font that lends a bold finish to various branding projects, including logos, greeting cards, and seasonal-themed graphics. Its versatility is unmatched as it stands out in myriad contexts. Available in OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats, Autumn Orange is perfect for injecting vibrant, fall-inspired creativity into your designs.

Happy Today – Fall & Thanksgiving Font

The Happy Today font is a versatile, bold display font. Great for branding projects such as logos or greeting cards and perfect for seasonal Autumn and Summer themes, it stands out in various contexts. It comes in OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats, offering practicality for multiple use cases.

Best Free Thanksgiving Fonts

Free Thanksgiving Font

This free font is designed with Thanksgiving-themed projects in mind. It features a beautiful script-style letter design that will add a more modern and more festive look to your typography designs. It’s free to use with personal projects.

Free Script Fall Font

Another free script font. This font is made for fall-themed design projects. It comes with a set of creative characters suitable for greeting cards, logos, and social media posts. The font is free for personal use only.

With Farmhouse – Free Fall Font

You can use this font to craft beautiful greeting cards and packaging designs for your fall-themed projects. It’s free to download and use with your personal projects.

Sweet November – Free Fall Themed Font

This font has a sweet romantic vibe with a mix of fall-season looks. It’s perfect for designing titles for greeting cards as well as for flyers and posters. The font is free for personal use.

Blushing – Free Fall Font

Blushing is a free fall-themed font that comes with a handwritten-style letter design. The font is ideal for custom prints such as t-shirts, mugs, and greeting cards. It’s free to use with personal projects.

Oklab is a new perceptual color space supported in all major browsers created by the Swedish engineer Björn Ottosson. In this interview, Philip Jägenstedt explores how and why Björn created Oklab and how it spread across the ecosystem.

Note: The original interview was conducted in Swedish and is available to watch.

About Björn

Philip Jägenstedt: Tell me a little about yourself, Björn.

Björn Ottosson: I worked for many years in the game industry on game engines and games like FIFA, Battlefield, and Need for Speed. I've always been interested in technology and its interaction with the arts. I’m an engineer, but I’ve always held both of these interests.

On Working With Color

Philip: For someone who hasn’t dug into colors much, what’s so hard about working with them?

Björn: Intuitively, colors can seem quite simple. A color can be lighter or darker, it can be more blue or more green, and so on. Everyone with typical color vision has a fairly similar experience of color, and this can be modeled.

However, the way we manipulate colors in software usually doesn’t align with human perception of colors. The most common color space is sRGB. There’s also HSL, which is common for choosing colors, but it’s also based on sRGB.

One problem with sRGB is that in a gradient between blue and white, it becomes a bit purple in the middle of the transition. That’s because sRGB really isn’t created to mimic how the eye sees colors; rather, it is based on how CRT monitors work. That means it works with certain frequencies of red, green, and blue, and also the non-linear coding called gamma. It’s a miracle it works as well as it does, but it’s not connected to color perception. When using those tools, you sometimes get surprising results, like purple in the gradient.

On Color Perception

Philip: How do humans perceive color?

Björn: When light enters the eye and hits the retina, it’s processed in many layers of neurons and creates a mental impression. It’s unlikely that the process would be simple and linear, and it’s not. But incredibly enough, most people still perceive colors similarly.

People have been trying to understand colors and have created color wheels and similar visualizations for hundreds of years. During the 20th century, a lot of research and modeling went into color vision. For example, the CIE XYZ model is based on how sensitive our photoreceptor cells are to different frequencies of light. CIE XYZ is still a foundational color space on which all other color spaces are based.

There were also attempts to create simple models matching human perception based on XYZ, but as it turned out, it’s not possible to model all color vision that way. Perception of color is incredibly complex and depends, among other things, on whether it is dark or light in the room and the background color it is against. When you look at a photograph, it also depends on what you think the color of the light source is. The dress is a typical example of color vision being very context-dependent. It is almost impossible to model this perfectly.

Models that try to take all of this complexity into account are called color appearance models. Although they have many applications, they’re not that useful if you don’t know if the viewer is in a light or bright room or other viewing conditions.

The odd thing is that there’s a gap between the tools we typically use — such as sRGB and HSL — and the findings of this much older research. To an extent, this makes sense because when HSL was developed in the 1970s, we didn’t have much computing power, so it’s a fairly simple translation of RGB. However, not much has changed since then.

We have a lot more processing power now, but we’ve settled for fairly simple tools for handling colors in software.

Display technology has also improved. Many displays now have different RGB primaries, i.e., a redder red, greener green, or bluer blue. sRGB cannot reach all colors available on these displays. The new P3 color space can, but it's very similar to sRGB, just a little wider.

On Creating Oklab

Philip: What, then, is Oklab, and how did you create it?

Björn: When working in the game industry, sometimes I wanted to do simple color manipulations like making a color darker or changing the hue. I researched existing color spaces and how good they are at these simple tasks and concluded that all of them are problematic in some way.

Many people know about CIE Lab. It’s quite close to human perception of color, but the handling of hue is not great. For example, a gradient between blue and white turns out purple in CIE Lab, similar to in sRGB. Some color spaces handle hue well but have other issues to consider.

When I left my job in gaming to pursue education and consulting, I had a bit of time to tackle this problem. Oklab is my attempt to find a better balance, something Lab-like but “okay”.

I based Oklab on two other color spaces, CIECAM16 and IPT. I used the lightness and saturation prediction from CIECAM16, which is a color appearance model, as a target. I actually wanted to use the datasets used to create CIECAM16, but I couldn’t find them.

IPT was designed to have better hue uniformity. In experiments, they asked people to match light and dark colors, saturated and unsaturated colors, which resulted in a dataset for which colors, subjectively, have the same hue. IPT has a few other issues but is the basis for hue in Oklab.

Using these three datasets, I set out to create a simple color space that would be “okay”. I used an approach quite similar to IPT but combined it with the lightness and saturation estimates from CIECAM16. The resulting Oklab still has good hue uniformity but also handles lightness and saturation well.

Philip: How about the name Oklab? Why is it just okay?

Björn: This is a bit tongue-in-cheek and some amount of humility.

For the tasks I had in mind, existing color spaces weren’t okay, and my goal was to make one that is. At the same time, it is possible to delve deeper. If a university had worked on this, they could have run studies with many participants. For a color space intended mainly for use on computer and phone screens, you could run studies in typical environments where they are used. It’s possible to go deeper.

Nevertheless, I took the datasets I could find and made the best of what I had. The objective was to make a very simple model that’s okay to use. And I think it is okay, and I couldn’t come up with anything better. I didn’t want to call it Björn Ottosson Lab or something like that, so I went with Oklab.

Philip: Does the name follow a tradition of calling things okay? I know there’s also a Quite OK Image format.

Björn: No, I didn’t follow any tradition here. Oklab was just the name I came up with.

On Oklab Adoption

Philip: I discovered Oklab when it suddenly appeared in all browsers. Things often move slowly on the web, but in this case, things moved very quickly. How did it happen?

Björn: I was surprised, too! I wrote a blog post and shared it on Twitter.

I have a lot of contacts in the gaming industry and some contacts in the Visual Effects (VFX) industry. I expected that people working with shaders or visual effects might try this out, and maybe it would be used in some games, perhaps as an effect for a smooth color transition.

But the blog post was spread much more widely than I thought. It was on Hacker News, and many people read it.

The code for Oklab is only 10 lines long, so many open-source libraries have adopted it. This all happened very quickly.

Chris Lilley from the W3C got in touch and asked me some questions about Oklab. We discussed it a bit, and I explained how it works and why I created it. He gave a presentation at a conference about it, and then he pushed for it to be added to CSS.

Photoshop also changed its gradients to use Oklab. All of this happened organically without me having to cheer it on.

On Okhsl

Philip: In another blog post, you introduced two other color spaces, Okhsv and Okhsl. You’ve already talked about HSL, so what is Okhsl?

Björn: When picking colors, HSL has a big advantage, which is that the parameter space is simple. Any value 0-360 for hue (H) together with any values 0-1 for saturation (S) and lightness (L) are valid combinations and result in different colors on screen. The geometry of HSL is a cylinder, and there’s no way to end up outside that cylinder accidentally.

By contrast, Oklab contains all physically possible colors, but there are combinations of values that don’t work where you reach colors that don’t exist. For example, starting from light and saturated yellow in Oklab and rotating the hue to blue, that blue color does not exist in sRGB; there are only darker and less saturated blues. That’s because sRGB in Oklab has a strange shape, so it’s easy to end up going outside it. This makes it difficult to select and manipulate colors with Oklab or Oklch.

Okhsl was an attempt at compromise. It maintains Oklab’s behavior for colors that are not very saturated, close to gray, and beyond that, stretches out to a cylinder that contains all of sRGB. Another way to put it is that the strange shape of sRGB in Oklab has been stretched into a cylinder with reasonably smooth transitions.

The result is similar to HSL, where all parameters can be changed independently without ending up outside sRGB. It also makes Okhsl more complicated than Oklab. There are unavoidable compromises to get something with the characteristics that HSL has.

Everything with color is about compromises. Color vision is so complex that it's about making practical compromises.

This is an area where I wish there were more research. If I have a white background and want to pick some nice colors to put on it, then you can make a lot of assumptions. Okhsl solves many things, but is it possible to do even better?

On Color Compromises

Philip: Some people who have tried Oklab say there are too many dark shades. You changed that in Okhsl with a new lightness estimate.

Björn: This is because Oklab is exposure invariant and doesn’t account for viewing conditions, such as the background color. On the web, there’s usually a white background, which makes it harder to see the difference between black and other dark colors. But if you look at the same gradient on a black background, the difference is more apparent.

CIE Lab handles this, and I tried to handle it in Okhsl, too. So, gradients in Okhsl look better on a white background, but there will be other issues on a black background. It’s always a compromise.

And, Finally…

Philip: Final question: What’s your favorite color?

Björn: I would have to say Burgundy. Burgundy, dark greens, and navy blues are favorites.

Philip: Thank you for your time, Björn. I hope our readers have learned something, and I’ll remind them of your excellent blog, where you go into more depth about Oklab and Okhsl.

Björn: Thank you!

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Add a gritty, textured feel to your designs with our collection of dust brushes and effects for Photoshop.

Whether you’re aiming to create a vintage look, enhance your artwork with subtle imperfections, or add a layer of realism to your designs, dust textures and effects can make all the difference. These elements bring depth, character, and a raw, weathered quality that elevates everything from photo edits to poster designs.

In this post, we bring you some of the best dust brushes and textures for Photoshop, perfect for creating everything from cinematic photo effects to distressed typography. Have a look.

Dust Photoshop Actions & Effects

Dust Explosion Photoshop Action

This is a dust explosion Photoshop action for designers and photographers needing a fresh and appealing approach to their creations. It can enhance various projects, including CD covers, posters, flyers, and advertising campaigns. Compatible with Photoshop CS3 and newer versions, the action lets you create a non-destructive effect.

Sand Dust Powder Explosion Photoshop Action

This is a high-quality Photoshop action that adds a unique sand dust animation effect to your images. Developed with great care and precision, it’s compatible with Photoshop CC+ and is most effective in its English version.

Dust Storm Animation Photoshop Action

This is a high-quality Photoshop dust storm action that can transform your images instantly. Easy to use, it adds an animated dust storm effect and works only with the English version of Photoshop CC+. A handy video tutorial is included with the download for set-up and customization pointers.

Color Dust Photoshop Action

This Photoshop action can instantly add a vibrant burst of color dust to your images. It works best with photos of figures and models. In addition to creating eye-catching effects, the action also includes 10 color presets for quick customization. Final compositions are fully layered for further editing.

Dust Powder Explosion Effect PSD

This is a Photoshop template designed to add drama to your images with a dynamic, explosive dust powder effect. It can convert photos into caricature effects with an energetic, oily, painting oil, glamour oil, portrait oil, or cartoon feel. Best used with photos of 1000px to 3000px resolution, the filters work well with a range of images, including fashion, lifestyle, and product shots.

Dust and Scratch Photo Effect PSD

Another Photoshop template that facilitates high-quality dust and scratches visual effects with just a few clicks. With a 4500 x 3000 resolution and 300 DPI, it ensures sharp, well-organized layers for easy editing. This tool involves a simple process of a double click on the smart object, editing, and saving.

Stardust Glitter Dust Transparent Overlay

This pack offers 20 high-resolution celestial dust overlays compatible with Photoshop. Perfect for enhancing outdoor photography, studio photoshoots, and social media images, these overlays come in both PNG and JPG files.

30 Vintage Film Grain Dust Photo Overlays

This is a professional overlay collection for adding a dreamy, vintage effect to your photos. With 30 high-quality overlays offered, simply place these on your photo and tweak the blending mode. It’s compatible with mobile and desktop platforms, including Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, Snapseed, and Picsart, and more.

Dust Photoshop Brushes

15 Real Dust Photoshop Brushes

Explore the artistic potential offered by this collection of unique dust Photoshop brushes. Of high quality and 5000px, these brushes provide realistic dust and hair textures, enhancing any digital art or design project. Conveniently provided in ABR format, the collection is skillfully crafted and sure to enrich your Photoshop toolkit.

Dust Particles Brushes for Photoshop

A creative set of Photoshop brushes featuring 8 distinctive dust particle brushes for adding a touch of magic to your digital works. This carefully crafted tool comes with an ABR file and comprehensive instructions. It works best when used with the “Screen” or “Color Dodge” blend mode.

45 Ash Dust Photoshop Stamp Brushes

Check out this set of 45 ash dust photoshop brushes, compatible with Photoshop CS6 – CC. The high-resolution texture brushes, with over 3000 pixels size, elevate your digital projects with their versatility. Great for photo overlays, digital manipulation, adding special effects in games, or enhancing your artwork, these brushes can transform your creations, injecting a unique aesthetic quality into them.

60 Grunge Dust Photoshop Stamp Brushes

Looking for a unique finishing touch for your digital project? Then this grunge dust brushes collection is perfect for you. It’s compatible with all Photoshop versions from CS2 to CC. With 60 high-resolution brushes up to 2500 pixels, you can add intriguing texture to your photos, create eye-catching visual effects for games or artwork, or simply add some grungy charm to your designs.

Dust Explosion Brushes for Photoshop

This collection of Photoshop brushes can help you design splendid dust and powder explosion effects with ease. This high-resolution set includes eight distinct brush styles, with pixel dimensions ranging from 3805 – 4968 px. The brushes are user-friendly and compatible with numerous CS6 to CC 2023+ Photoshop versions.

Stardust Brushes for Photoshop

Stardust brushes for Photoshop is a brush pack designed to add sparkly celestial dust effects to your work. This pack features 20 high-resolution (4096 x 4096 px) brushes that are simple to use. The brushes are perfect for various types of creative digital design projects.

90 Fractal Dust Stamp Brushes

Fractal dust brushes is an expansive brush collection of intricate fractal shapes and textures specifically crafted for Photoshop CS6 – CC. Housing a robust eruption of 90 high-resolution brushes, this universal pack allows compatibility with any application that opens .ABR files. Its distinctive designs can add an instant flair to web constructs, art pieces, presentation design, and various print essentials like cards, covers, and posters.

Flour Dust Brushes for Photoshop

This is a unique brush pack that breathes life into your designs with incredible powder, explosion, and dispersion effects. This set includes eight high-quality, high-resolution brushes, all simple and user-friendly. Compatible with multiple Photoshop versions (CS6 and all CC versions).

Dust Textures & Backgrounds

10 Dust Texture Overlays

Add a touch of nostalgia with this dust texture overlays pack, which offers ten unique vintage dust textures in high resolution (6000 x 4500 px, 600 dpi). Compatible with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and any graphics program that can read JPG files, this asset is a fantastic tool for breathing life into your creative projects with a vintage touch.

Light Bokeh Dust Textures

This is a set of 20 distinct model overlays designed to add an artistic touch to your visuals. Each model is available in a 6000x4000px size with 300 DPI, packaged in a JPG format. Ideal for any creative project, these textures, full of fine detail and depth, are sure to elevate your imagery.

Vintage Dust Texture Pack

Explore the charm of bygone eras with this vintage dust texture pack. This creative asset brings authenticity to your designs with high-resolution texture images featuring subtle dust particles and delicate scratches—hallmarks of classic photos and memorabilia. Easily integrated into a range of design projects, it’s perfect for photo overlays, digital artworks, or evocative backgrounds. The pack includes 10 textures in both JPG and PNG format.

10 Dust & Scratches Textures

A versatile collection of high-resolution JPG files with dust textures, perfect for enhancing your design projects. Ideal for use as overlays, backgrounds, masks, and more, these 4000x4000px files can be adapted for any creative work. Compatible with Photoshop or any program capable of reading JPG files, these textures offer endless possibilities for bringing your ideas to life.

Colorful Dust Explosion Backgrounds

A collection of high-quality, dynamic backgrounds featuring colorful dust explosions. With a variety of 10 colors available in a 3000×2000 pixel JPG format, these backgrounds offer a vibrant explosion of dust reminiscent of India’s Holi Festival. Suitable for use in numerous settings, ranging from yoga studios to social media platforms, these textures can inject life into a dull design or enhance a presentation.

10 Dust & Grunge Textures

This pack offers a collection of high-resolution dirty wall textures featuring dust, grains, speckles, and more. Ideal for digital artworks, these textures can be used as backgrounds for graphics, texts, business cards, websites, and social media banners among others. Available in both JPG and PNG formats, they are compatible with Adobe Photoshop CC or higher versions.

Free Dust Photoshop Brushes & Effects

Free Dust Photoshop Text Effect

This is a text effect template you can download for free to craft cool titles for your design projects. It features a stylish dust dispersion-style effect. The text is easily customizable as well.

Free Dust Dispersion Photoshop Effect

This PSD template is also free to download and it comes with a creative dispersion effect that you can instantly apply to your photos. The template features smart object layers for easy editing as well.

Free 68 Dust Brushes for Photoshop

This is a big collection of dust brushes for Photoshop. You can download it for free to use in your personal projects. The brushes come in both Photoshop and Affinity Photo formats.

Free Sand Dust Photoshop Brushes

Another collection of dust-themed Photoshop brushes. This pack includes 15 brushes that feature sand dust-style brush designs. They are perfect for adding grain and texture to your designs.

Free Powder Dust Photoshop Brushes

This free Photoshop brush pack also includes 15 different high-quality brushes in 2500px size. The brushes feature powder dust-style brush designs with a realistic look and feel.

Creating a professional, visually captivating presentation is essential when promoting a hotel or hospitality business. Whether you’re pitching to investors, presenting to potential clients, or showcasing your brand to partners, the right presentation can make all the difference.

In this blog post, we’ve curated a collection of the best hotel presentation templates designed to help you deliver stunning and polished presentations with ease.

Whether you’re showcasing room amenities, event spaces, or the overall guest experience, these templates provide a structured, easy-to-edit framework to bring your vision to life. They offer everything you need to highlight key features of your hotel—beautiful imagery, engaging content layouts, and professional design elements that will impress any audience.

Hotellia – Hotel PowerPoint Template

Hotellia is a stylish hotel PowerPoint template with a versatile and elegant design created for a variety of business needs. It features 30 unique, clean slides in HD widescreen format and offers a range of customizable infographics such as bar charts and circles. Its user-friendly nature requires no additional image editing software and allows for fully editable text, fitting any business’s style and need.

Hotel – PowerPoint Presentation Template

This is a superbly organized pitch deck template ideal for professionals intending to create an impressive presentation. It comprises 30 easily adjustable slides and a craft infographic feature. The asset is remarkable for its customization ability; you can change colors, resize, recolor, and more.

Hotel & Resort PowerPoint Template

This hotel PowerPoint template offers a professional, contemporary design with a focus on detail. Perfectly suited for diverse presentations, from business and branding to advertising, it features over 38 unique slides, easy color change, and full HD quality. Its strength lies in its carefully crafted typography, usability, and extensive mockup capabilities.

California Hotel – PowerPoint Presentation Template

This hotel PowerPoint template is ideal for those in the hospitality and travel sectors. Boasting a clean, minimalist design, this template includes 100 uniquely creative slides, fully animated with resizable vector elements. The template supports retina and full HD display, and supports a variety of file types including pdf.

Travotel – Travel & Hotel PowerPoint Template

The Travotel is a comprehensive and professionally designed template ideal for a visual representation of offerings within the hotel or travel industry. With 20 modifiable slides and easy drag and drop features, it allows for captivating and customizable presentations. Designed to fit in a 16:9 Wide Screen Ratio and needing only free web fonts, its user-friendliness is commendable.

Hotel & Villa – PowerPoint Template

This is a sleek and modern hotel PowerPoint template, designed with detail and professionalism. It includes 10 completely customizable slides, featuring resizable and editable graphics, free recommended web fonts, and a widescreen ratio. The template is based on master slides and has a convenient drag-and-drop picture placeholder.

The Neuville – Luxury Hotel PowerPoint Template

The Neuville is a versatile template—ideal for a range of uses from real estate or hotel presentations to company profiles or personal portfolios. With 30 slides, over 500 icons, and handy features like easy-to-edit graphics and simple drag and drop, creating an engaging, professional presentation is a breeze.

Hotel Management PowerPoint Template

This is an excellent hotel PowerPoint template for hotel industry professionals looking to highlight strategies for optimizing operations and service. With its pleasing aesthetics and organized design, the template provides 20 slides with master slides and image placeholders included.

Hoteliano – Luxury Hotel PowerPoint Template

The Hoteliano is an elegantly designed tool for any presentation purpose, particularly within the luxury hospitality industry. The template features over 40 unique slides, all designed with careful attention to detail, usable typography, and modern aesthetics. The template package includes easy-to-use PPTX and PDF files.

Solace – Hotel & Travel PowerPoint Template

Solace is a multipurpose, professional presentation tool ideal for various sectors like business, creative agencies, and portfolio presentations. The clean, modern design is easy to edit and customize. With over 30 slides, an HD aspect ratio, and a high resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, this template is adaptable and user-friendly.

Gracia – Luxury Hotel PowerPoint Template

Gracia hotel PowerPoint template offers a professional, ultra-modern design ideal for any presentation purpose. With over 40 unique slides, this template promises attention to detail, usability, and strong typography. The set includes PowerPoint PPT & PPTX files and PDF documentation, editable on master slides.

Holux – Hotel Marketing Presentation

Holux is a brilliant tool designed to elevate your hotel’s marketing strategy. It’s developed as a PowerPoint presentation template equipped with unique layouts, high resolution, and easy customization for showcasing your brand and services.

De Luna – Hotel Marketing Presentation

The De Luna is a versatile PowerPoint template ideal for creating engaging and professional marketing presentations. Its clean, modern design offers ample room for creativity, with 50+ unique slides and various features such as easy-to-edit vector icons, drag-and-drop placeholders, and a selection of world map vectors.

Luxury Hotel Marketing PowerPoint Template

This is a user-friendly, highly customizable hotel PowerPoint template perfect for showcasing your luxury hotel. It’s versatile, suitable for various businesses and promotional purposes. The template includes 20 pages in 1920px x 1080px size, with 72 DPI in RGB color, and utilizes free fonts.

Luxury Hotel & Resort PowerPoint Template

This is a versatile, creatively designed hotel PowerPoint template perfect for businesses, corporate bodies, and agencies. Easy to use and fully customizable, its highlights include a size of 1920px x 1080px, 72 DPI, RGB color, and 16 pages. Free fonts are utilized and it comes with a Powerpoint PPTX file and a readme text.

D’Lux – Luxury Hotel Presentation Template

D’Lux  is an exquisite asset that provides a sleek and modern design for presenting your luxury hotel brand. Containing flexible and fully editable elements – from infographics to vector icons, it’s suited for various business purposes, be it financial reviews, marketing strategies or training sessions. Its wide 16:9 screen ratio and free recommended fonts contribute to functionality, creating a visually compelling tool for your hotel’s success.

Toproom – Luxury Hotel PowerPoint

Toproom is a stylish yet professional hotel PowerPoint template for crafting compelling presentations. With 30 customizable slides, easy-to-use picture placeholders, and free recommended web fonts, it offers a multitude of options to highlight your unique designs. And don’t forget, mastering the art of visually striking and engaging presentations is made simple with its drag-and-drop feature and a 16:9 widescreen ratio.

Gold Hotel – PowerPoint Presentation Template

This hotel PowerPoint template is ideal for a range of uses from corporate business to digital marketing. It features 22 master slides, all resizable and customizable, with a picture placeholder. This user-friendly template makes editing a breeze – simply drag and drop. It uses and recommends free web fonts.

Free Hotel Presentations Templates (Google Slides)

Free Hotel Pitch Deck Google Slides Template

A beautifully elegant and stylish pitch deck template for your hotel presentations. This template is completely free to download and use. It comes with 31 slides and in both Google Slides and PowerPoint formats.

Free Hotel Marketing Plan Presentation

You can use this free hotel marketing plan presentation to create an effective slideshow to plan a campaign for your hotel marketing efforts. The template includes 27 editable slides and it comes in Google Slides format.

Free Luxury Hotel Company Profile Presentation

This free Google Slides template is ideal for crafting an elegant and high-end presentation for promoting your luxury hotel. It’s designed for making company profile slideshows and includes 28 slides.

Free Hotel Business Plan Presentation

Create an effective business plan for your hotel and resort business using this free Google Slides template. It comes with a colorful design with 35 customizable slide layouts.

Free Resort Hotel Marketing Plan Presentation

This Google Slides template is also free to download. It’s designed specifically for making hotel marketing plan presentations. The template includes highly visual slide layouts with fully customizable design elements.

Diwali, the vibrant Festival of Lights, is one of the most celebrated and cherished Hindu festivals, symbolizing the triumph of light over darkness and good over evil.

As families and communities come together to celebrate this joyous occasion, designers and marketers often seek visually captivating ways to honor the festival through their projects.

In this blog post, we’ve curated a beautiful collection of Diwali-themed templates, icons, graphics, and resources to help you craft stunning visuals for your flyers, posters, social media, and more. From traditional oil lamps (diyas) and rangoli patterns to fireworks and festive symbols, these design assets capture the essence of Diwali in a visually engaging way.

Diwali Celebration Flyer Templates

Modern Diwali Flyer Template

This flyer template is a fantastic resource for anyone organizing Diwali events, parties, or festivals. This easy-to-customize, well-organized template comes in both PSD and Ai files that are ready-to-print, featuring a modern design that truly stands out. The artboard is A4 size and layered for easy editing.

Diwali Festival Flyer Template

This is a must-have for any Diwali event or celebration. This easy-to-customize and thoroughly organized asset contains both PSD and Ai files – all set to an A4 artboard size and are print-ready at 300 DPI in CMYK. A readme file accompanying the pack provides details about the fonts used.

Happy Diwali Flyer Template

This is an artistically designed flyer template for your special Diwali event. It’s amazingly flexible, available in both Ai and PSD files, with well-organized layers that are fully editable. Sized at 21×29.7 cm + bleed and equipped with a CMYK 300 DPI color mode, the flyer ensures high-quality prints promising to leave a lasting impression.

Creative Happy Diwali Flyer Template

This is a vibrant and dynamic asset perfect for any Diwali event, be it parties, festive functions, or special events. It is an A4 size template that is simple to edit, allowing customization of color, font, and text. You can easily personalize it by inserting your event’s title, date, and time as well as your website name. It includes various files, including Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and a help file.

Flat Design Diwali Flyer Set

A vibrant flyer template perfect for any Diwali event or project. This comprehensive set includes templates for flyers, Instagram posts and stories, and Facebook posts, all with a colorful flat design that can be customized via Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Although fonts and images are not included, the files are well-organized, making customization a breeze.

Diwali Event Flyer Template

This flyer template is ideal for organizing any Diwali related events. These easily customizable templates, compatible with Adobe Illustrator CC and Adobe Photoshop CS4 or later, come with finely separated layers for texts, images, and graphics for your convenience.

Bold Diwali Celebration Flyer Set

This is a bold and vibrant flyer template set perfect for any Diwali festivities. The set includes a flyer, social media feeds, and a social media story, all with ready-to-print or post dimensions. Downloadables include AI, PSD, and EPS files along with a font link.

Diwali Celebration Flyer Template

An excellent choice for any Diwali events, parties or festivals. The template is customizable, editable and can be quickly adapted to your unique needs. It features a creative design, comes in PSD and Ai files and is print-ready at 300 DPI. The template uses the commercial-free fonts MONTSERRAT and Kingthings Foundation for a touch of elegance.

Editable Diwali Flyer Template

Bring Diwali, the iconic Indian Festival of Lights, to life with this bright and customizable flyer template. The design, featuring festive Diya Lamps, is perfect to promote Diwali celebrations or other Indian-themed events, including Indian weddings, Republic Day, or Rama Navami. It is available in Illustrator Ai, Photoshop PSD, and Vector EPS formats, with an A4 final printed size in a CMYK color space.

Simple Happy Diwali Flyer Template

This is a creatively designed flyer template for your special Diwali celebration event. This flyer, available in both Ai and PSD files, features neat and well-organized layers that are fully editable. With dimensions of 21×29.7 cm + bleed, and a clean, CMYK 300 DPI, CS5 specification, it allows for stunning visuals and easy customization.

Diwali Festival Icons

50 Diwali Icons Set

Add an Indian touch to your marketing campaigns with the 50 Diwali icons set. From Diwali lamps and ornate décor to lively firecrackers, this inclusive pack captures the essence of India’s vibrant festival. Whether you want to adjust the color, size or text, these 100% vector icons are fully customizable across various editing programs.

Creative Diwali Icon Set

Explore the creative Diwali icon set, an ensemble of 12 aesthetically pleasing designs themed around Diwali. Each icon is easily customizable, with the ability to alter colors to match individual preferences. Icons are perfect for any design area and are conveniently available in both AI and SVG formats, making them a versatile addition to your creative toolkit.

Diwali Festival Elements Set

This is a delightful assortment of Diwali-themed icons in a sleek flat design. It offers a range of quaint illustrations, from festive lanterns, candles, garlands, fireworks, to intricate mandalas and traditional Indian ornaments. Available in multiple formats such as EPS10, AI, JPG, PDF, PNG, and SVG, it’s a wonderfully vibrant way to celebrate the festival of lights in your projects.

Diwali 3D Icons Pack

This Diwali 3D icons pack is a striking collection of 3D icons that can enhance your design work significantly. Crafted with attention to detail, these icons bring depth and sophistication to your projects. Included formats are PNG for web use, SVG for lossless resizing, and PSD for customization in Adobe Photoshop.

30 Diwali Element Icons

This icon pack offers a range of beautifully designed flat vector icons, all based on a 48px grid. Available in multiple file formats, including AI, EPS, SVG and PNG, these icons are compatible with Adobe Illustrator CS6 and CC. The package includes individual PNG files in 5 sizes and an Iconjar, making it versatile for a variety of creative projects.

15 Diwali Icons Set

This is a vibrant assemblage of Diwali-themed symbols, featuring a lotus flower, candle, gift, firework, flag, footprints, the Hindu Om symbol, a Diwali emblem, among others. These are served in a range of formats such as PNG (64px to 512px), SVG, PSD, and vector, facilitating easy incorporation into your project or customization in their original formats.

Diwali Graphics & Illustrations

Happy Diwali Illustration

Explore the vibrancy of Diwali with this beautiful illustration. This unique design showcases children holding traditional lanterns in front of a colorful rangoli, all set against a striking purple backdrop. The file includes an EPS 10 and a high-resolution 300DPI JPG, making for a versatile, ready-to-use asset.

Celebrating Diwali Illustration

This is a vibrant, beautifully constructed vector image in both SVG and PNG format. Perfect for highlighting the sparkling Indian festival of lights, this asset can effortlessly add a dash of cultural richness to your Diwali or holiday-themed projects.

16 Diwali Illustrations Set

This is a vibrant and authentic collection of images and motifs associated with the Hindu festival, Diwali. Ideal for individuals and professionals alike, it adds an ethnic touch to wedding invitations, banners, and promotions. This versatile set, including images of diyas and lamps, is available in Illustrator Ai, Vector EPS, Clipart PNG, and Vector SVG formats with a final print size of 3000 x 2000px.

Happy Diwali Vector Clipart Pack

This is a delight for those who want to bring the festive spirit of Diwali to life. This is an exciting collection of 20 vector objects that includes favourites like an Indian boy and girl, vibrant mandalas, decorative lamps, and more. All elements are available in various formats like AI, EPS, PDF, PNG, and SVG, and are illustrated in a playful, cartoon style, making this clipart pack as fun as it is functional.

Flat Design Diwali Illustration Set

This is an ideal graphics pack for your next Diwali celebration design. Comprising fully customizable and editable Adobe Illustrator files, it allows you to create your own scene composition perfectly suited to any presentation or landing page.

Diwali Festival of Light Illustration Set

Immerse yourself in the vibrant Diwali festival illustration set. This captivating collection includes images of children joyously brandishing oil lamps and sparklers amidst a backdrop of hanging Indian lanterns and enchanting sky lanterns. Available in EPS 10, high-resolution 300DPI JPG, and PNG formats with transparent background, these illustrations are ready to enhance your creative projects!

Free Diwali Mockups & Graphics

Free Happy Diwali Background

This is a free Diwali template that features a beautiful background for showcasing your Diwali-themed designs. It features a Diwali-themed starry background surrounding the scene as well.

Free Diwali Mockup Template

If you’re working on a Diwali celebration card, invitation, or greeting card, this free mockup template is perfect for showcasing your design. The template has a realistic design with lots of beautiful Diwali elements.

Free Diwali Banner Template

You can use this free Diwali banner template to create an attractive design to spread the word about your Diwali festivals and special events. It comes in PSD format and you can fully customize it to your preference.

Free Diwali Poster Template

You can download this poster template for free to promote your Dwaili festival events like a pro. The template features a stylish scene that includes details about the event as well. It’s available in PSD format.

Free Diwali Sale Flyer Template

This flyer template is also free to download. It includes a beautiful Diwali-themed scene featuring a natural-looking setting for promoting your special festival season sales and discounts. The template is easily customizable to your preference.

An approach for creating masonry layouts in vanilla CSS is one of those “holy grail” aspirations. I actually tend to plop masonry and the classic “Holy Grail” layout in the same general era of web design. They’re different types of layouts, of course, but the Holy Grail was a done deal when we got CSS Grid.

That leaves masonry as perhaps the last standing layout from the CSS 3 era that is left without a baked-in solution. I might argue that masonry is no longer en vogue so to speak, but there clearly are use cases for packing items with varying sizes into columns based on available space. And masonry is still very much in the wild.

Steam is picking up on a formal solution. We even have a CSSWG draft specification for it. But notice how the draft breaks things out.

Grid-integrated syntax? Grid-independent syntax? We’ve done gone and multiplied CSS!

That’s the context for this batch of notes. There are two competing proposals for CSS masonry at the time of writing and many opinions are flying around advocating one or the other. I have personal thoughts on it, but that’s not important. I’ll be happy with whatever the consensus happens to be. Both proposals have merits and come with potential challenges — it’s a matter of what you prioritize which, in this case, I believe is a choice between leveraging existing CSS layout features and the ergonomics of a fresh new approach.

But let’s get to some notes from discussions that are already happening to help get a clearer picture of things!

What is masonry layout?

Think of it like erecting a wall of stones or bricks.

The sizes of the bricks and stones don’t matter — the column (or less commonly a row) is the boss of sizing things. Pack as many stones or bricks in the nearest column and then those adapt to the column’s width. Or more concisely, we’re laying out unevenly sized items in a column such that there aren’t uneven gaps between them.

Examples, please?

Here’s perhaps the most widely seen example in a CodePen, courtesy of Dave DeSandro, using his Masonry.js tool:

I use this example because, if I remember correctly, Masonry.js was what stoked the masonry trend in, like 2010 or something. Dave implemented it on Beyoncé’s website which certainly gave masonry a highly visible profile. Sometimes you might hear masonry called a “Pinterest-style” layout because, well, that’s been the site’s signature design — perhaps even its brand — since day one.

Here’s a faux example Jhey put together using flexbox:

Chris also rounded up a bunch of other workarounds in 2019 that get us somewhat there, under ideal conditions. But none of these are based on standardized approaches or features. I mean, columns and flexbox are specced but weren’t designed with masonry in mind. But with masonry having a long track record of being used, it most certainly deserves a place in the CSS specs.

There are two competing proposals

This isn’t exactly news. In fact, we can get earlier whiffs of this looking back to 2020. Rachel Andrew introduced the concept of making masonry a sub-feature of grid in a Smashing Magazine article.

Let’s fast-forward to 2022. We had an editor’s draft for CSS Masonry baked into the CSS Grid Layout Module 3 specification. Jenn Simmons motioned for the CSSWG to move it forward to be a first public working draft. Five days later, Chromium engineer Ian Kilpatrick raised two concerns about moving things forward as part of the CSS Grid Layout module, the first being related to sizing column tracks and grid’s layout algorithm:

Grid works by placing everything in the grid ahead of time, then sizing the rows/columns to fit the items. Masonry fundamentally doesn’t work this way as you need to size the rows/columns ahead of time – then place items within those rows/columns.

As a result the way the current specification re-uses the grid sizing logic leads to poor results when intrinsically sizing tracks, and if the grid is intrinsically-sized itself (e.g. if its within a grid/flex/table, etc).

Good point! Grid places grid items in advance ahead of sizing them to fit into the available space. Again, it’s the column’s size that bosses things around in masonry. It logically follows that we would need to declare masonry and configure the column track sizes in advance to place things according to space. The other concern concerns accessibility as far as visual and reading order.

That stopped Jenn’s motion for first public working draft status dead in its tracks in early 2023. If we fast-forward to July of this year, we get Ian’s points for an alternative path forward for masonry. That garnered support from all sorts of CSS heavyweights, including Rachel Andrew who authored the CSS Grid specification.

And, just a mere three weeks ago from today, fantasai shared a draft for an alternate proposal put together with Tab Atkins. This proposal, you’ll see, is specific to masonry as its own module.

And thus we have two competing proposals to solve masonry in CSS.

The case for merging masonry and grid

Rounding up comments from GitHub tickets and blog posts…

Flexbox is really designed for putting things into a line and distributing spare space. So that initial behaviour of putting all your things in a row is a great starting point for whatever you might want to do. It may be all you need to do. It’s not difficult as a teacher to then unpack how to add space inside or outside items, align them, or make it a column rather than a row. Step by step, from the defaults.

I want to be able to take the same approach with display: masonry.

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We can’t do that as easily with grid, because of the pre-existing initial values. The good defaults for grid don’t work as well for masonry. Currently you’d need to:

1. Add display: grid, to get a single column grid layout.
2. Add grid-template-columns: <track-listing>, and at the moment there’s no way to auto-fill auto sized tracks so you’ll need to decide on how many. Using grid-template-columns: repeat(3, auto), for example.
3. Add grid-template-rows: masonry.
4. Want to define rows instead? Switch the masonry value to apply to  grid-template-columns and now define your rows. Once again, you have to explicitly define rows.

Rachel Andrew, “Masonry and good defaults”

For what it’s worth, Rachel has been waving this flag since at least 2020. The ergonomics of display: masonry with default configurations that solve baseline functionality are clear and compelling. The default behavior oughta match the feature’s purpose and grid just ain’t a great set of default configurations to jump into a masonry layout. Rachel’s point is that teaching and learning grid to get to understand masonry behavior unnecessarily lumps two different formatting contexts into one, which is a certain path to confusion. I find it tough to refute this, as I also come at this from a teaching perspective. Seen this way, we might say that merging features is another lost entry point into front-end development.

In recent years, the two primary methods we’ve used to pull off masonry layouts are:

• Flexbox for consistent row sizes. We adjust the flex-basis based on the item’s expected percentage of the total row width.
• Grid for consistent column sizes. We set the row span based on the expected aspect ratio of the content, either server-side for imagery or client-side for dynamic content.

What I’ve personally observed is:

• Neither feels more intuitive than the other as a starting point for masonry. So it feels a little itchy to single out Grid as a foundation.
• While there is friction when teaching folks when to use a Flexbox versus a Grid, it’s a much bigger leap for contributors to wrap their heads around properties that significantly change behavior (such as flex-wrap or grid-auto-flow: dense).

Tyler Sticka, commenting on GitHub Issue #9041

It’s true! If I had to single out either flexbox or grid as the starting poit for masonry (and I doubt I would either way), I might lean flexbox purely for the default behavior of aligning flexible items in a column.

The syntax and semantics of the CSS that will drive masonry layout is a concern that is separate from the actual layout mechanics itself, which internally in implementation by user agents can still re-use parts of the existing mechanics for grids, including subgrids. For cases where masonry is nested inside grid, or grid inside masonry, the relationship between the two can be made explicit.

@jgotten, commenting on GitHub Issue #9041

Rachel again, this time speaking on behalf of the Chrome team:

There are two related reasons why we feel that masonry is better defined outside of grid layout—the potential of layout performance issues, and the fact that both masonry and grid have features that make sense in one layout method but not the other.

The case for keeping masonry separate from grid

One of the key benefits of integrating masonry into the grid layout (as in CASE 2) is the ability to leverage existing grid features, such as subgrids. Subgrids allow for cohesive designs among child elements within a grid, something highly desirable in many masonry layouts as well. Additionally, I believe that future enhancements to the grid layout will also be beneficial for masonry, making their integration even more valuable. By treating masonry as an extension of the grid layout, developers would be able to start using it immediately, without needing to learn a completely new system.

Kokomi, commenting on GitHub Issue #9041

It really would be a shame if keeping masonry separate from grid prevents masonry from being as powerful as it could be with access to grid’s feature set:

I think the arguments for a separate display: masonry focus too much on the potential simplicity at the expense of functionality. Excluding Grid’s powerful features would hinder developers who want or need more than basic layouts. Plus, introducing another display type could lead to confusion and fragmentation in the layout ecosystem.

Angel Ponce, commenting on GitHub Issue #9041

Rachel counters that, though.

I want express my strong support for adding masonry to display:grid. The fact that it gracefully degrades to a traditional grid is a huge benefit IMO. But also, masonry layout is already possible (with some constraints) in Grid layout today!

Naman Goel, Angel Ponce, commenting on GitHub Issue #9041

Chris mildly voiced interest in merging the two in 2020 before the debate got larger and more heated. Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but rather an acknowledgment that it could make sense:

I like the grid-template-rows: masonry; syntax because I think it clearly communicates: “You aren’t setting these rows. In fact, there aren’t even really rows at all anymore, we’ll take care of that.” Which I guess means there are no rows to inherit in subgrid, which also makes sense.

Where we at?

Collecting feedback. Rachel, Ian, and Tab published a joint call for folks like you and me to add our thoughts to the bag. That was eight days ago as of this writing. Not only is it a call to action, but it’s also an excellent overview of the two competing ideas and considerations for each one. You’ll want to add your feedback to GitHub Issue #9041.

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The leaves are shining in the most beautiful colors and pumpkins are taking over the front porches. It’s time to welcome the spookiest of all months: October! To get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season, artists and designers from across the globe once again got their ideas flowing and designed inspiring wallpapers for you to indulge in.

The wallpapers in this post come in versions with and without a calendar for October 2024 and can be downloaded for free. And since so many beautiful and unique designs evolve around our little wallpapers challenge every month (we’ve been running it for more than 13 years already, can you believe it?!), we also added some timeless October treasures from our wallpapers archives to the collection. Maybe you’ll spot one of your almost-forgotten favorites in here, too?

A huge thank you to everyone who shared their wallpapers with us this month — this post wouldn’t exist without you. Happy October!

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Happy Halloween

Designed by Ricardo Gimenes from Spain.

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Reptile Awareness Day

“Let’s celebrate reptiles and raise awareness of their vital role in ecosystems. Many species face threats, so let’s learn, appreciate, and protect these incredible creatures and their habitats!” — Designed by PopArt Studio from Serbia.

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Make Today A Good Day

“‘Make today a good day’ is a simple yet powerful reminder to take control of the present moment. It emphasizes that our attitude and actions shape our experience, encouraging positivity and purpose. Each day brings new opportunities, and by choosing to make it good, we invite growth, joy, and fulfilment into our lives.” — Designed by Hitesh Puri from Delhi, India.

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The Dungeon Master

Designed by Ricardo Gimenes from Spain.

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Happy Dussehra

“I was inspired by Dussehra’s rich symbolism and cultural significance while creating this design. The festival celebrates the triumph of good over evil. The bow and arrow become the central focus, while the bold red background, golden accents, and the temple’s silhouette add a sense of grandeur and spirituality.” — Designed by Cronix from the United States.

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The Crow And The Ghosts

“If my heart were a season, it would be autumn.” — Designed by Lívia Lénárt from Hungary.

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The Night Drive

Designed by Vlad Gerasimov from Georgia.

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Autumn’s Splendor

“The transition to autumn brings forth a rich visual tapestry of warm colors and falling leaves, making it a natural choice for a wallpaper theme.” — Designed by Farhan Srambiyan from India.

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National Fossil Day

“Join us in commemorating National Fossil Day, a day dedicated to honoring the wonders of Earth’s prehistoric past. On this special day, we invite you to step back in time and explore the remarkable world of fossils. These ancient remnants of life on our planet offer a glimpse into the evolution of life, from the tiniest microorganisms to the towering giants that once roamed the Earth.” — Designed by PopArt Studio from Serbia.

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Magical October

“‘I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.’ (L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables)” — Designed by Lívi Lénárt from Hungary.

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Bird Migration Portal

“October is a significant month for me because it is when my favorite type of bird travels south. For that reason I have chosen to write about the swallow. When I was young, I had a bird’s nest not so far from my room window. I watched the birds almost every day; because those swallows always left their nests in October. As a child, I dreamt that they all flew together to a nicer place, where they were not so cold.” — Designed by Eline Claeys from Belgium.

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Ghostbusters

Designed by Ricardo Gimenes from Spain.

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Spooky Town

Designed by Xenia Latii from Germany.

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Hello Autumn

“Did you know that squirrels don’t just eat nuts? They really like to eat fruit, too. Since apples are the seasonal fruit of October, I decided to combine both things into a beautiful image.” — Designed by Erin Troch from Belgium.

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Hanlu

“The term ‘Hanlu’ literally translates as ‘Cold Dew.’ The cold dew brings brisk mornings and evenings. Eventually the briskness will turn cold, as winter is coming soon. And chrysanthemum is the iconic flower of Cold Dew.” — Designed by Hong, ZI-Qing from Taiwan.

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Discovering The Universe

“Autumn is the best moment for discovering the universe. I am looking for a new galaxy or maybe… a UFO!” — Designed by Verónica Valenzuela from Spain.

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King Of The Pirates

Designed by Ricardo Gimenes from Spain.

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Goddess Makosh

“At the end of the kolodar, as everything begins to ripen, the village sets out to harvesting. Together with the farmers goes Makosh, the Goddess of fields and crops, ensuring a prosperous harvest. What she gave her life and health all year round is now mature and rich, thus, as a sign of gratitude, the girls bring her bread and wine. The beautiful game of the goddess makes the hard harvest easier, while the song of the farmer permeates the field.” — Designed by PopArt Studio from Serbia.

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Game Night And Hot Chocolate

“To me, October is all about cozy evenings with hot chocolate, freshly baked cookies, and a game night with friends or family.” — Designed by Lieselot Geirnaert from Belgium.

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Strange October Journey

“October makes the leaves fall to cover the land with lovely auburn colors and brings out all types of weird with them.” — Designed by Mi Ni Studio from Serbia.

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Autumn Deer

Designed by Amy Hamilton from Canada.

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Dope Code

“October is the month when the weather in Poland starts to get colder, and it gets very rainy, too. You can’t always spend your free time outside, so it’s the perfect opportunity to get some hot coffee and work on your next cool web project!” — Designed by Robert Brodziak from Poland.

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Transitions

“To me, October is a transitional month. We gradually slide from summer to autumn. That’s why I chose to use a lot of gradients. I also wanted to work with simple shapes, because I think of October as the ‘back to nature/back to basics month’.” — Designed by Jelle Denturck from Belgium.

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Autumn In The Forest

“Autumn is a wonderful time to go for walks in the forest!” — Designed by Hilda Rytteke from Sweden.

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Shades Of Gold

“We are about to experience the magical imagery of nature, with all the yellows, ochers, oranges, and reds coming our way this fall. With all the subtle sunrises and the burning sunsets before us, we feel so joyful that we are going to shout it out to the world from the top of the mountains.” — Designed by PopArt Studio from Serbia.

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Happy Fall!

“Fall is my favorite season!” — Designed by Thuy Truong from the United States.

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Ghostober

Designed by Ricardo Delgado from Mexico City.

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First Scarf And The Beach

“When I was little, my parents always took me and my sister for a walk at the beach in Nieuwpoort. We didn't really do those beach walks in the summer but always when the sky started to turn gray and the days became colder. My sister and I always took out our warmest scarfs and played in the sand while my parents walked behind us. I really loved those Saturday or Sunday mornings where we were all together. I think October (when it’s not raining) is the perfect month to go to the beach for ‘uitwaaien’ (to blow out), to walk in the wind and take a break and clear your head, relieve the stress or forget one’s problems.” — Designed by Gwen Bogaert from Belgium.

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Turtles In Space

“Finished September, with October comes the month of routines. This year we share it with turtles that explore space.” — Designed by Veronica Valenzuela from Spain.

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Roger That Rogue Rover

“The story is a mash-up of retro science fiction and zombie infection. What would happen if a Mars rover came into contact with an unknown Martian material and got infected with a virus? What if it reversed its intended purpose of research and exploration? Instead choosing a life of chaos and evil. What if they all ran rogue on Mars? Would humans ever dare to voyage to the red planet?” Designed by Frank Candamil from the United States.

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Summer, Don’t Go!

“It would be nice if we could bring summer back, wouldn’t it?” — Designed by Terezija Katona from Serbia.

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Embracing Autumn’s Beauty

“We were inspired by the breathtaking beauty of autumn, with its colorful foliage and the symbolic pumpkin, which epitomizes the season. Incorporating typography allows us to blend aesthetics and functionality, making the calendar not only visually appealing but also useful.” — Designed by WPclerks from India.

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A Positive Fall

“October is the month when fall truly begins, and many people feel tired and depressed in this season. The jumping fox wants you to be happy! Also, foxes always have reminded me of fall because of their beautiful fur colors.” — Designed by Elena Sanchez from Spain.

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