Creating a Unique Letter Layout with CSS Grids

CSS grids are great for creating unique, complex and responsive layouts. I will walk you through how to create a letter grid using CSS, which can be used on your personal or brand website.

In this tutorial, we’ll be creating something that looks like this:

Prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of HTML and CSS
• Some basic knowledge of CSS grids. If you need a refresher you can read through the MDN docs.

If you want to jump straight into the code, you can view the completed example in codepen.

To start, we’ll need to define our grid. We can think of the container as something that can be broken up into a bunch of squares. For grids, the size of each row and column can be defined individually, so some may be shorter/longer than others.

I’ve chosen to break up the container into a grid with 11 columns and 4 rows. This gives each corner and letter its own cell in the grid. The image spans across two rows, but that can be easily handled using CSS grids.