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You might have noticed that I did a big design refresh on my entire site unless you're on RSS I guess. I'll talk about aspects in detail, but at a high level there's been three big changes:

As I was playing around with contrast-color(), I got a wild idea that you could use contrast-color() to invert its return value by nesting it: contrast-color(contrast-color(var(--some-color)). When would this be useful? Uh Good question. I couldn't . ...

In my first post on contrast-color() I demo'd using color-mix() to change a background-color on hover, but I will be honest mixing black and white isn't always what you want. It would be cool and helpful to coerce contrast-color() to return either 1 ...

One predictable pain point with contrast-color() is that it only returns black and white named colors. From a design systems perspective, that's not ideal because you want your colors. You want your harmonious brand and the colors you and your team . ...

Firefox 146 added support for contrast-color() joining Safari 26 in the First Implementor's Club. For those unfamiliar, contrast-color() is a new CSS function that will take a as input and returns either white or black depending on which has the most ...

2025 was a year. And I made it to the end of that year. If you're reading this, I imagine you did too and let's celebrate that. But also not one without loss; of loved ones, of health, of relationships, of jobs, of liberties, of pursuits of happiness ...

???? Christmas time is here. Happiness and cheer. Fun for all that children call their favorite time of year.