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Getting creative with versal letters

Yours truly over at CSS Tricks: “How can you style drop and initial caps to reflect a brand’s visual identity and help to tell its stories? Here’s how I do it in CSS by combining::first-letter and initial-letter with other unexpected properties, including border-image, and clip-path.

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Practical layout workshop

As well as writing for CSS Tricks I will also be running a workshop on layout design on Thursday, 18th September. I will be covering:

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July 18, 2025 • Andy Clarke • CSS Tricks
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Drawing on over thirty years of experience, I’ll show you how to uncover a company’s story, develop a distinctive visual language, and combine colour, typography, imagery, and layout to create designs that people recognise and remember.

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Free compound grid and modular grid layout generators, plus a set of HTML/CSS layout templates you can call on to make more interesting layouts, available to buy.

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