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

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

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

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

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

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Water.css

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

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

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CSS Vertical Centering – Everything You Need To Know

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Getting content to center perfectly within an element and then ensuring it responds properly at different screen sizes is one of the biggest challenges that still face front-end designers. It is not that it is difficult, but because there are several ways to go about it, figuring out which method is best can be confusing. […]


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You Might Be Tempted to Use These CSS Tricks But Should You?

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The temptation to dive right into new and exciting CSS tricks is strong – you might even do it without knowing it through learning by example or implementing that hot new framework everyone is talking about. It is more important to fully understand new CSS classes and properties, experiment with them and learn their limitations […]


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The Power of CSS Selectors and How to Use Them

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One of the challenges of coding premium WordPress themes is the unpredictable nature of how they will be used. Compared to coding a custom website, especially one using static HTML documents where you have complete control over the markup, you have to solve problems creatively and ensure flexibility. In these cases, CSS selectors make all […]


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