Bento Break 13 – July 9, 2021

Bento Break 13 breezes in. Color, mental health, games, and artworks that make me happy on this relaxing week of vacation. Gris An inexpensive and beautiful game Becoming Minimalist I find this refreshing Color harmony Spending time thinking about this recently

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Bento Break 12 – July 2, 2021

Bento Break 12 busts into the big time! Accessibility tips, cool tools, and lots of great artwork on Deviant Art this week. Accessible Speaking Best practices from Deque Microsoft’s Immersive Reader Very nice tool Vocal remover Seems pretty nifty

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Uncommon Design Tokens

If you’ve worked on design systems at all, more than likely you’ve heard of design tokens. If you haven’t heard of design tokens, they are the essence of what makes your system feel unique, often stored as variables in some sort of tech-agnostic format like JSON. Even this site uses a form of design tokens […]

Blue Gray Violet Wheel (from series, the Mathematical Basis of the Arts), (ca. 1934) painting in high resolution by Joseph Schillinger. Original from The Smithsonian Institution. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

Bento Break 11 – June 24, 2021

Bento Break 11 is here at last! Industry standards, CSS system colors, nice branding, and some artwork from me! I am a bit rusty, and it needed to be simple for embroidery. Used Affinity Design for the first time, and instantly fell in love with it. Very impressed, highly recommended. Top 1000 Sites’ Fonts The […]

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Bento Break 10 – June 18, 2021

Boom! Bento Break 10 coming at you. CSS Tricks has had a ton of great content recently, so every article cited is from there. And as usual some great artwork from around the web. “Sticky” comes to tables Oh thank goodness. Finally. Blank is not _Blank These A targets are different Better disabled buttons Improved […]

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Respect Font Preferences 2 – REM Isn’t the Answer

In part 1 of Respecting Font Preferences, I discussed how in almost every major browser, users have the option to adjust the font family and sizes of their fonts to meet their unique needs. However, just because one font family is set to an equivalent of 16 pixels (the common default), does not mean another […]

Lychees (1941) Chinese painting in high resolution by Ding Fuzhi. Original from The MET. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

Bento Break 9 – June 11, 2021

Breaking news, it’s Bento Break 9 broskis! Accessibility, AI, collaboration, and some slick colorwork. AI and Accessibility Thoughts on re-designing AI. Dynamic Accessible Name Issues Adrian Roselli covers some interesting gotchas. Secrets of Sustained Collaboration These work very well.