Pricing

Breathing new life into an old design meme View the project Certain cultural memes cycle and resurface as discovered by new audiences. This particular photo is one such meme. It’s one I’ve always loved, but hated the poor quality with window glare and leaning perspective. It seems like it originated over 20 years ago in Helsinki, Finland, but the exact origin may now be lost. When it popped again recently, I thought it was high time to recreate it in a more fitting manner — HTML! Design & Development The design was really about bringing some realism to the HTML. The vintage marquee letter board backing is felt and I did a quick sampling of the two main colors to get things started. The horizontal stripes are a perfect match for a repeating linear gradient via CSS, so that was a good start. In order to give the background a bit more of a fabric feel, I add an empty <div> top layer with a backdrop-filter subtle blur. This eased the hard edges of the stripes. Next I started on the text.…

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