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| author | bt <bt@btxx.org> | 2024-06-08 13:22:19 -0400 |
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| committer | bt <bt@btxx.org> | 2024-06-08 13:22:19 -0400 |
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diff --git a/build/macos-icon-css/index.html b/build/macos-icon-css/index.html index bed4d4b..2a7d39b 100644 --- a/build/macos-icon-css/index.html +++ b/build/macos-icon-css/index.html @@ -1,88 +1,99 @@ <!doctype html> -<html lang="en" id="top"> +<html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link rel="icon" href="data:,"> <title>Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS</title> - <link href="https://bt.ht/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for blog posts" /> - <style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{overflow:auto;}table{text-align:left;width:100%;}</style> + <link href="/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for blog posts" /> + <link href="/rss.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" title="RSS feed for blog posts" /> +<style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1.33;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{border:1px solid;overflow:auto;padding:5px;}table{text-align:left;width:100%;}.footnotes{font-size:90%;}</style> </head> <nav> - <a href="#menu">Menu ↓</a> + <a href="#menu">Menu ↓</a> </nav> <main> -<h1>Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS</h1> +<h1 id="create-a-mac-app-icon-with-pure-html-and-css">Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS</h1> + <p>2021-04-13</p> -<p>I have always been a huge fan of <a href="https://dribbble.com/bg-d">Bogdan's work on Dribbble</a> and was recently inspired to see if I could replicate one of his awesome icon designs with only HTML & CSS. What was the outcome? I think it's a half-way decent copy - of course the original will always look significantly better.</p> -<p>Don't care about reading through the tutorial? No problem! You can <a href="#demo">jump right down to the live demo</a></p> -<h2>The Comparison</h2> -<p>Let's take a look at the original Dribbble shot:</p> -<p><figure> - <img src="/public/images/e54ac9b2850f786471d7790bec3844a6.webp" alt="Big Sur Icon"> - <figcaption>The original Dribbble shot (<a href="/public/images/e54ac9b2850f786471d7790bec3844a6.webp">direct link to image</a>)</figcaption> -</figure></p> -<p>And now let's see what we will be creating with only HTML & CSS:</p> -<p><figure> - <img src="/public/images/big-sur-css.webp" alt="Big Sur Icon"> - <figcaption>What we are going to create with pure HTML & CSS (<a href="/public/images/big-sur-css.webp">direct link to image</a>)</figcaption> -</figure></p> + +<p>I have always been a huge fan of <a href="https://dribbble.com/bg-d">Bogdan’s work on Dribbble</a> and was recently inspired to see if I could replicate one of his awesome icon designs with only HTML & CSS. What was the outcome? I think it’s a half-way decent copy - of course the original will always look significantly better.</p> + +<p>Don’t care about reading through the tutorial? No problem! You can <a href="#demo">jump right down to the live demo</a></p> + +<h2 id="the-comparison">The Comparison</h2> + +<p>Let’s take a look at the original Dribbble shot:</p> + +<p>And now let’s see what we will be creating with only HTML & CSS:</p> + <p>Like I said - far from perfect but still a fun experiment!</p> -<h2>The HTML</h2> -<p>Let's jump right in and build out the main skeleton of our project:</p> -<pre><code><div class="white-square"></div> -<div class="blue-square"> - <div class="row"> - <div class="item"></div> - <div class="item"></div> - </div> - <div class="row"> - <div class="item"></div> - <div class="item"></div> - </div> - <div class="row"> - <div class="item"></div> - <div class="item"></div> - </div> - <div class="row"> - <div class="item"></div> - <div class="item"></div> - </div> - <div class="row"> - <div class="item"></div> - <div class="item"></div> - </div> - <div class="row"> - <div class="item"></div> - <div class="item"></div> - </div> - <div class="row"> - <div class="item"></div> - <div class="item"></div> - </div> -</div> -<div class="play-button"> - <div class="triangle"></div> -</div> + +<h2 id="the-html">The HTML</h2> + +<p>Let’s jump right in and build out the main skeleton of our project:</p> + +<pre><code><div class="white-square"></div> +<div class="blue-square"> + <div class="row"> + <div class="item"></div> + <div class="item"></div> + </div> + <div class="row"> + <div class="item"></div> + <div class="item"></div> + </div> + <div class="row"> + <div class="item"></div> + <div class="item"></div> + </div> + <div class="row"> + <div class="item"></div> + <div class="item"></div> + </div> + <div class="row"> + <div class="item"></div> + <div class="item"></div> + </div> + <div class="row"> + <div class="item"></div> + <div class="item"></div> + </div> + <div class="row"> + <div class="item"></div> + <div class="item"></div> + </div> +</div> +<div class="play-button"> + <div class="triangle"></div> +</div> </code></pre> -<p> - The <code>white-square</code> element is the white, rounded square in the background - - The <code>blue-square</code> is the main blue square of the icon - - The <code>row</code> elements inside the <code>blue-square</code> will be our individual <em>lines</em> spread across the icon - - The <code>play-button</code> is obviously - the play button</p> -<p> Right now it will look like nothing, but we can change that by adding the most important part...</p> -<h2>The CSS</h2> -<p>Pasting the entire CSS styling here would end up looking a little daunting. Instead, I'm just going to breakdown each individual section to make things more digestible.</p> -<h3>Defaults & the White Square</h3> + +<ul> +<li><p>The <code>white-square</code> element is the white, rounded square in the background</p></li> +<li><p>The <code>blue-square</code> is the main blue square of the icon</p></li> +<li><p>The <code>row</code> elements inside the <code>blue-square</code> will be our individual <em>lines</em> spread across the icon</p></li> +<li><p>The <code>play-button</code> is obviously - the play button</p> + +<p>Right now it will look like nothing, but we can change that by adding the most important part…</p></li> +</ul> + +<h2 id="the-css">The CSS</h2> + +<p>Pasting the entire CSS styling here would end up looking a little daunting. Instead, I’m just going to breakdown each individual section to make things more digestible.</p> + +<h3 id="defaults-the-white-square">Defaults & the White Square</h3> + <pre><code>* { box-sizing: border-box; } :root { --row-distance: 42px; } -</code></pre> -<pre><code>.white-square { + +.white-square { background: white; border-radius: 105px; box-shadow: inset 0 -5px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.25), 0 12px 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.15), 0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); @@ -94,7 +105,9 @@ width: 420px; } </code></pre> + <p>See that <code>--row-distance</code> variable? That will come into play a bit later. For now, we want to lay the Blue Square on top of this newly creating White Square:</p> + <pre><code>.blue-square { background: linear-gradient(#04BDFD 0%, #0585E4 100%); border-radius: 105px; @@ -107,8 +120,11 @@ width: 420px; } </code></pre> -<h2>Targeting the Inner Rows</h2> -<p>So far so good. The next part <em>looks</em> like a lot, but I assure you it's fairly straightforward. We need to include each row inside the Blue Square like in the original Dribbble shot (7 total). First we start with the parent <code>row</code> styling:</p> + +<h2 id="targeting-the-inner-rows">Targeting the Inner Rows</h2> + +<p>So far so good. The next part <em>looks</em> like a lot, but I assure you it’s fairly straightforward. We need to include each row inside the Blue Square like in the original Dribbble shot (7 total). First we start with the parent <code>row</code> styling:</p> + <pre><code>.blue-square .row { display: flex; height: 20px; @@ -118,7 +134,9 @@ width: 100%; } </code></pre> + <p>Now we style each individual row item via the <code>nth-of-type</code> attribute:</p> + <pre><code>.blue-square .row:nth-of-type(2) { margin-top: var(--row-distance); } .blue-square .row:nth-of-type(2) .item:nth-of-type(odd) { width: 85px; @@ -172,9 +190,13 @@ width: calc(100% - 55px); } </code></pre> -<p>Take a few moments to read everything over - it will help you better understand what's going on. Basically, we are adding two inner elements to each row element. We calculate the <code>margin-top</code> distance by using that <code>--row-distance</code> variable I mentioned earlier. The inner elements are then styled based on their placement inside the row (<code>nth-of-type</code>).</p> -<h3>The Play Button</h3> + +<p>Take a few moments to read everything over - it will help you better understand what’s going on. Basically, we are adding two inner elements to each row element. We calculate the <code>margin-top</code> distance by using that <code>--row-distance</code> variable I mentioned earlier. The inner elements are then styled based on their placement inside the row (<code>nth-of-type</code>).</p> + +<h3 id="the-play-button">The Play Button</h3> + <p>Now we finish things off with a much simpler element to style:</p> + <pre><code>.play-button { backdrop-filter: blur(6px); border-radius: 9999px; @@ -189,7 +211,7 @@ .play-button::before { background: rgba(255,255,255,0.9); border-radius: 9999px; - content:''; + content:''; filter: blur(40px); height: 150%; left: -25%; @@ -208,7 +230,7 @@ } .triangle:before, .triangle:after { - content: ''; + content: ''; position: absolute; background-color: inherit; } @@ -230,17 +252,24 @@ transform: rotate(135deg) skewY(-45deg) scale(.707,1.414) translate(50%); } </code></pre> -<p>Thanks to <a href="https://m.nintendojo.fr/@meduz/106059826445460903">meduz</a> for pointing out the <code>backdrop-filter</code> property. This allows for a frosted glass look on Chromium & Safari (although sadly not on Firefox). The <code>triangle</code> element could also be improved by using an embedded <code>SVG</code> but I was determined to use only CSS for this experiment :P</p> -<p>That's really all there is to it! You can see the embedded CodePen example below or <a href="https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/pen/bGgBRaV">check it out directly here &rarr;</a></p> -<hr /> -<h3>Special Thanks</h3> + +<p>Thanks to <a href="https://m.nintendojo.fr/@meduz/106059826445460903">meduz</a> for pointing out the <code>backdrop-filter</code> property. This allows for a frosted glass look on Chromium & Safari (although sadly not on Firefox). The <code>triangle</code> element could also be improved by using an embedded <code>SVG</code> but I was determined to use only CSS for this experiment :P</p> + +<p>That’s really all there is to it! You can see the embedded CodePen example below or <a href="https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/pen/bGgBRaV">check it out directly here →</a></p> + +<hr/> + +<h3 id="special-thanks">Special Thanks</h3> + <p>Thanks to Bogdan for letting me butcher the original Dribbble shot :D</p> + <ul> <li><a href="http://bg-d.net/">bg-d.net</a></li> <li><a href="https://dribbble.com/bg-d">Bogdan on Dribbble</a></li> </ul> -<hr /> -<p><h2 id="demo">Live Demo (CodePen)</h2></p> + +<hr/> + <p><a href="https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/pen/bGgBRaV">Live CodePen Demo</a></p> <footer role="contentinfo"> <h2>Menu Navigation</h2> |