This site really reminds me of Gwern's in terms of aesthetics — minimalist color theme, gorgeous, dense, and typographically thoughtful. I realize it's a bit of bike-shedding to focus on the presentation rather than the content, which is fascinating in its own right, but the resemblance struck me.
90s_dev•3d ago
1. The background flourish is created with ::before and a custom web font
2. The flourish letter is found via content: attr() on the parent element
3. The actual big letter itself is also done via custom web font & float: left
wavemode•13h ago
typesarecool•13h ago
/* Drop caps / .first-paragraph { position: relative; padding-top: 0.2em;
lkuty•2h ago