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Ever since the introduction of viewport units, people have been trying to make the font size adjust to size of the device.

I saw a post on LinkedIn by Craig Abbott on an article using math to define typography.

I was watching a comedy show the other evening and the comedian was complaining about how shoe sizes don’t make any sense.

There’s been a recent trend in having the logos of companies seem to glow.

Recently, I watched a video by Colin & Samir speaking about a situation Hank Green is currently facing.

After finishing a live show with Christine Vallaure last week, she sent me a message asking about the setup for my show.

Over the years, I’ve seen some folks choose to create tokens such as --color-black.

In the most recent Wireframe live show, Dan Abramov came on to talk about his excitement over the new AT Protocol.

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. — Melvin E.

Doomscrolling last week, I came across a post with the word “eigengrau”.

Over at the Design Systems House website, I made a small toggle for light and dark mode.

I vibe design/coded a design system in a few hours!

This weekend a project called pretext started making waves by Cheng Lou.

By the time you are reading this, my several-year-long journey in book writing has neared its end.

A large part of the role for design system maintainers is to make things for your peers.

From the days of working with design tools like Photoshop, layering compositions in 3D space on a computer has been part of the job.

I tend to take a minimalist approach when it comes to design systems.

One of the most confusing but ubiquitous patterns in design is “small text with a background color that may or may not be interactive”.

Adam Argyle made a post on Bluesky today announcing a new property called text-grow is now available in Chrome Canary 145+.

AI is everywhere in tech now.

Before Mise en Mode, I went on a journey to try to truly understand what it meant to have a design token be “semantic”.

There’s no shortage of posts that explain how to perform responsive typography.

I was speaking with a colleague recently about design system marketing.

This week I tuned into The Question by Ben Callahan, co-hosted by Natalya Shelburne.

I’ve been in the process of writing a book over the past year and the hardest part for me isn’t the writing, it’s the publishing.

For a recent episode of wireframe, I borrowed some questions from another person’s AMA.

I’m in the middle of deep thought about what a text component looks like.

First, we used pixels to describe the size of things on the web.

The concept of an accent color occurs in modern web design often, especially in minimalistic compositions of black and white.

I think many of us who work with CSS and accessibility have been looking for a solution that helps provide the right amount of contrast for a given color.

Material Design 3 (Material You) was officially unveiled at Google I/O in May of 2021.

I’m done building components. 🙅 This feeling was already strong for me.

As someone who like to think he deeply understands the CSS I’m writing, I do everything I can to avoid using CSS that can cause unintended side effects.

I released Gridless Design nearly 4 years ago as a response to a frustration I saw in the industry.

I got into an argument on LinkedIn this week about design choices.

If you told me 2 years ago that I was going to write this post, I would have scoffed at the thought.

The design systems community was buzzing a few days ago with the announcement of version 2 of the Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS).

My wife and I were having an argument about line-height.

Warning, you probably don’t want to what this post describes anywhere.

In my design system playground, one of my small goals was to have the ability to import a design token identically between CSS and JavaScript.