Subtle text "highlighter" in pure CSS
88x31 Web Button Maker
HINT: generate the gradient here, then paste the css style above!
test highlights - underreacted
Using CSS to fix the irradiation illusion · November 29, 2025
How to adjust perceived font weight in dark mode without layout shift
Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing | CSS-Tricks
Until we get something like ::nth-letter, there are still some really cool text effects we can make from existing CSS features, like letter-spacing, ::first-word and ::first-line.
Highlighters
Realistic, customizable highlighter-pen marks for the web. Bindings for React, Vue, and Svelte.
Curved Text Along a Path | CSS-Tricks
We can flow text along a curved line with three tools built right into SVG: , and .
Free WordArt Generator - Create 90s Text Effects Online | Make WordArt
Free Online WordArt Generator - Create Nostalgic 90s Text Effects Instantly. No Photoshop needed! Download as PNG or use in iMessage, Google Docs. The original MS Office retro styles.
good-css
Strong opinions about modern CSS technique, borrowed from experts, for agents to know and reach for.
iOS 18: How to Use Safari's New Highlights Feature
Safari in iOS 18 introduces a new feature called Highlights, which is designed to enhance your browsing experience by intelligently surfacing key information from webpages. The tool uses machine learning to identify and extract the most relevant details, and present them to you in an easily...
CSS3 Patterns Gallery
The patterns themselves should work on Firefox 3.6+, Chrome, Safari 5.1, Opera 11.10+ and IE10+. However, implementation limitations might cause some of them to not be displayed correctly even on those browsers (for example at the time of writing, Gecko is quite buggy with radial gradients).
Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table
Pretext Does What CSS Can't — Measuring Text Before the DOM Even Exists | HackerNoon
Cheng Lou's Pretext library measures multiline text height without touching the DOM — unlocking layout capabilities CSS has never been able to offer.
Is there a broadly used lexicon for *book* highlights yet? (eg. for your Xteink/KOReader, or highlighted.app, highlights) (I figure this could be handy for sense-making on @semble.so, and for everyone with their new fancy xteink devices…)
