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diff --git a/build/macos-icon-css/index.html b/build/macos-icon-css/index.html index 2a7d39b..3f2a41d 100644 --- a/build/macos-icon-css/index.html +++ b/build/macos-icon-css/index.html @@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <meta name="color-scheme" content="dark light"> <link rel="icon" href="data:,"> <title>Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS</title> <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> +<style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1.33;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}blockquote{background:rgba(0,0,0,0.1);border-left:4px solid;padding-left:5px;}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> @@ -16,25 +17,15 @@ <main> <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 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 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"> @@ -70,22 +61,16 @@ <div class="triangle"></div> </div> </code></pre> - <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; } @@ -105,9 +90,7 @@ 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; @@ -120,11 +103,8 @@ width: 420px; } </code></pre> - <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; @@ -134,9 +114,7 @@ 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; @@ -190,13 +168,9 @@ 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 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; @@ -252,24 +226,16 @@ 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 →</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><a href="https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/pen/bGgBRaV">Live CodePen Demo</a></p> <footer role="contentinfo"> <h2>Menu Navigation</h2> |