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CSS Variables in the Homebrewery

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Recently someone on Discord was asking about how CSS Variables work which seemed like a good topic to cover on the blog. CSS Variables are a way to carry a defined property value to other properties across your style sheet. You define your variable with a value, and then you can use that variable elsewhere. … CSS Variables in the Homebrewery

2 New Color Palettes

In the last week I have read about and tried two new color palette tools: Poline and oklch.com. Both offer alternative methods of thinking about colors and easy to use tools for exploring those methods.

Fonts in the Homebrewery

The Homebrewery has a few different themes at this point, and each has it’s own set of fonts (or a shared set) which will likely be sufficient for many users but there may be some need to look elsewhere to achieve a particular theme. By the end of this post you should be comfortable importing … Fonts in the Homebrewery

Hosting Images

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There is a pretty good chance that in the course of creating brews in the Homebrewery you will want to use an image for a monster or item or some other thing. It might be fun to try and limit yourself to only using the two images included in the snippets (the cat warrior and … Hosting Images