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Type Scale: The Practical Guide
What a type scale is, how to choose a ratio, and how one scale can drive your whole design system. Guides, worked examples, and a live tool.
16 guidesSpacing Systems & the 8pt Grid: The Practical Guide
How spacing systems work — the 8pt grid, 4pt half-steps, baseline grids, and spacing scales that grow from one formula. Guides and a live tool.
14 guidesOKLCH & Modern CSS Color: The Practical Guide
OKLCH explained for designers and developers — lightness, chroma, hue, gamuts, and why modern color tooling generates palettes in it. Guides and a live tool.
15 guidesColor Scales & UI Palettes: The Practical Guide
How color scales work — the 50–900 steps, ramps from one brand color, semantic roles, and palettes that pass contrast by construction. Guides and a live tool.
17 guidesContrast & Accessible Color: The Practical Guide
WCAG contrast ratios, APCA, color blindness and accessible palettes — what the rules require, why they exist, and how to pass them by construction.
13 guidesDesign Tokens: The Practical Guide
What design tokens are, the DTCG format, naming layers, theming and the export path from one source to CSS, Tailwind and Figma. Guides and a live tool.
12 guidesLayout Grids & Breakpoints: The Practical Guide
How layout grids work — 4/8/12 columns, gutters, margins, breakpoints and container widths, built with modern CSS instead of framework classes.
9 guidesFluid Typography & Spacing: The Practical Guide
Fluid typography with clamp() — sizes that scale smoothly with the viewport instead of jumping at breakpoints. The math, the accessibility rules, the guides.
11 guidesDark Mode Design: The Practical Guide
How dark mode actually works — derived palettes instead of inversion, chroma loss, elevation, contrast pitfalls and theme tokens. Guides and a live tool.
11 guidesBrand Colors: From One Color to a Working System
How brand colors become working systems — choosing a color, surviving accessibility, print-to-screen translation, rebrands and audits. Guides and a live tool.
12 guidesWeb Typography: Fonts, Pairing & Readability
The craft side of web typography — pairing fonts, serif vs sans, line length, readability, and what a typeface signals. Guides and a live tool.
13 guidesAI and Design Systems: The Practical Guide
AI tools build interfaces and images fast but don't hold a system. How design tokens and a named palette keep AI output on-brand — guides and a live tool.
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