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One of my big goals with Kelp, my UI library for people who love HTML, was build-free customization. I want to use the best of modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to let people customize the hell out it without every having to open up terminal or run a ...

Last week, we looked at how to create accessible and semantic color palettes as part of my deep dive into how I'm building Kelp, my UI library for people who love HTML. Today, I wanted to show you how I'm implementing light and dark modes. Let's dig ...

On Monday, we looked at how to create an accessible color palette. Today, we're going to learn how to take that palette and use it to create semantic color variables that we can use throughout our design system. This approach is at the heart of Kelp, ...

I'll finally be releasing some early code for Kelp UI (my UI library for people who love HTML) over the next few days. The one last thing I've been finalizing before I do is the license. I knew early on that I didn't want to release this under a ...

I've been putting the finishing touches on the color palette for Kelp, my UI library for people who love HTML. Today, I wanted to share how it works, and give you a sneak peak of the color palette generator I'm building to make theming Kelp without . ...

Over the last week, we've looked at how Kelp UI implements four different layouts with modern CSS: the container layout pattern, the cluster layout, the split layout, and the stack. Today, I wanted to show you how Kelp uses the .space-* class to ...

This week, we learn how Kelp UI implements the container layout pattern, the cluster layout, and the split layout. Today, we're going to look at one last layout pattern in Kelp: the stack. Let's dig in! The stack layout In Kelp, most elements have .. ...

On Monday, I shared how Kelp UI implements the container layout pattern. And yesterday, we learned about the cluster layout. Today, we're going to look at another layout pattern in Kelp: the split. Let's dig in! The split layout A split layout is ...

Yesterday, I shared how Kelp UI implements the container layout pattern. Today, we're going to look at another layout pattern in Kelp: the cluster. Let's dig in! The cluster layout A cluster is when you have a bunch of elements of varying widths. You ...

I've been working hard on getting Kelp, my UI library for people who love HTML, ready to share publicly. A big part of the library design has been providing layout options that are flexible and give you a lot of options, without resulting classitis . ...