Piccalilli Newsletter - Issue #23

Welcome

Ćao! 👋

Happy Friday, everyone. It’s my last day before a nice summer holiday with my family. Because of that, this newsletter will be the last one for a couple of weeks.

In the meantime, let's enjoy some CSS together!

If you’re enjoying reading this newsletter as much as I’m enjoying creating it, please share it with your pals. It’ll be really appreciated if you do.

Enjoy!

Featured Article

How to Accessibly Split Text

This is a nice dive into some accessibility concerns that come along with splitting text into separate elements.

As always, Michelle goes into a nice amount of detail for us all.

Fancy

Khan Academy Annual Report

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Lot’s of lush shape work on this design, mixed with tasteful animations and smart typography. It very much makes my eyes smile.

GT America - Font Site

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I bloody love this site. The tiny colour palette, the clean layout and the fancy animations are to die for!

Illustration

Hamburger

This is lovely from Dora. A nice use of CSS to make up this illustration.

Fun

DragNav

There’s a reason that I joke that this newsletter is actually Adam’s newsletter. It’s because he consistently produces stunning work. This is no exception.

Go and follow him.

Sponsor

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Thank you

That’s all, folks

If you have any comments, feedback or submissions, please get in touch via Twitter or Email.

I’m also taking a short break from writing tutorials, so I’m looking to feature your work. If you have written a handy CSS utility, CSS trick or tutorial, you can submit a link over at https://submissions.piccalil.li ➡

Until the next issue, take it easy 🙂