Resources to Help You Create CSS Images!
If you have ever heard about CSS images, I’m sure you are curious about what it is and maybe how to get started. Here is a collection of resources that is perfect to help you along the way! 😎
What are CSS Images? 🧐
CSS images are images created with pure CSS, without the help of SVG or other image formats. This means that you create illustrations/graphics with the help of code and not with software like Illustrator or Sketch.
Why CSS Images? 🤔
CSS images can help you in many ways. Here are some of the benefits of creating CSS images:
- Fun way to learn CSS
- Practice writing CSS using CSS preprocessors
- Create images and artwork without the need for expensive software or the skills required to use such software
- Improve your overall design skills
- Discover CSS properties that you don’t or wouldn’t normally use
- Become more comfortable writing CSS
- Increase CSS writing efficiency
Here’s a great article if you’re still not convinced 😉
Articles 📚
These articles are perfect for when you are first starting out with CSS images. Take a look to learn what the process of creating CSS images is like or to see how others first started out.
Useful tools 🛠
Clippy makes creating shapes with clip-path super easy!
Find the perfect colours for your CSS images.
A collection of shapes you can create with CSS and the code to go with it!
Learn more about how Lynn Fisher creates beautiful and mind-blowing CSS images with just a single div.
Inspiration 😍
A Single Div — A project by Lynn Fisher. An image is created with only one div tag.
CodePen Collection of CSS Images — A collection of CSS images created on Codepen.
Watch me code some of my CSS images on my YouTube channel.
I hope you found this article helpful!
To share your CSS images with the world or to see what other people are creating, take a look at these hashtags on Twitter!
#cssimages, #cssimage, #dailycssimages, #30dayscssimage
This article was written as part of Frank’s Coding Night, a social coding event by CSS Frankfurt.
