7/1/2023 0 Comments Svg webfont generator![]() ![]() The tool is also available as a Sketch plugin and a PostCSS plugin. So Andreas Larsen has built a little editor, Easing Gradients Editor, that allows us to create and preview easing gradients in CSS. There is a way to make the gradients slightly better, with easing functions. However, linear gradients have hard edges where they start or end. With gradients, we often rely on linear gradients, transitioning from one color to another. ![]() Ah and not to forget the Animation panel in Chrome and Firefox for debugging as well. You can add steps, change sizing and position, apply transforms and color changes and get the CSS to copy-paste as well. ![]() Perfect Cubic-Bezier Curves ( Large preview)Īnd if you need basic or complex CSS animations, Keyframes.app provides a visual timeline editor similar to video-editing software. And then copy-paste the CSS snippet to plug into your project right away. With Lea Verou’s cubic-bezier, you can preview and compare animations, slow them down and even adjust them visually. Sometimes an animation just doesn’t feel right, does it? Perhaps the duration is off, or the easing is quirky, and figuring it out might take quite some time. Border Radius organic cell ( Large preview) Cubic-Bezier Curves Generator The tool is also available as CLI tool, so you can run it locally as well. Essentially, what we are creating are overlapping ellipses that build the final shape. The tool provides a visualization of not only plain round shapes, but also organic shapes, by using eight values combined. However, border-radius can be quite fancy, and fancy-border-radius generator allows you to generate them easily. When we think about border-radius, we usually think about a few straightforward values - perhaps 8px or 11px, or maybe 16px. And it gets even better: The creator of the tool, Philipp Brumm, has also released SmoothShadow as a Figma plugin, so you can optimize your workflow just like you’ve always wanted to. The little tool allows you to visually design a layered smooth box-shadow, but also tweak alpha, offset and blur with individual easing curves. Once you’ve given it a try, it will be difficult to not use it. SmoothShadow Figma plugin by Philipp Brumm ( Large preview) Inspired by an article written by Tobias Ahlin Bjerrome, this nifty tool was created to help anyone generate the code they need on the spot. Looking for a tool that’ll automatically generate CSS code for really smooth, layered box-shadows? Well, you’re going to love SmoothShadow.
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7/1/2023 0 Comments Auricula theatre pots![]() The rewards are however great and your violas will keep compact for longer and keep flowering all summer long. I can’t say I do, but then there are 180 varieties of viola to get through in our collection. Some people find deadheading very therapeutic. You can grow them individually in smaller pots for the summer if you want to create an auricula theatre type of effect, but pot your violas on into something deeper by late summer or early autumn, as their vigorous root systems will appreciate more space and a larger pot will help insulate them from winter cold. We find the plants knit together well and make a large flowering clump. All our stock pots are made up of 3 plants potted up into one 10 litre pot that is approximately 30cm (1ft) wide and deep. If growing in pots make sure they are deep pots.Feed first with a balanced feed for healthy plant growth and once established switch to a tomato feed to encourage more flowers. You can also add slow release fertiliser to the compost, or give them a liquid feed every two to three weeks to give them a boost. If growing in pots use a good quality general purpose growing medium and incorporate grit or perlite to aid drainage through winter.They are happy on clay, if garden compost has been incorporated to break it up, and on sandy soil if garden compost has been incorporated to improve moisture retention and nutrients. ![]() They like good, humus-rich garden soil.They enjoy part shade through to full sun, but will not tolerate deep shade. ![]() Violas are remarkably generous plants and easy perennials to grow, if you follow a few golden rules: We have also found them to suit more contemporary naturalistic styles of planting, particularly the cornutas, with their more delicate flowers, combining well with shorter grasses such as Stipa tennuissima and Hordeum jubatum. They combine well with many traditional cottage garden favourites such as geraniums, potentillas and astrantias. In the garden the more vigorous varieties, notably many of the cornutas and some of the hybrids such as Viola ‘Ivory Queen’, Viola ’Roscastle Black’ and Viola ‘Eastgrove Blue’ are good for under planting shrubs, but they are also lovely subjects for the front of the border, scrambling through their taller flowering neighbours. We like planting them in an old vintage container with culinary herbs or salads, as viola flowers are not only ornamental but edible too and can be used to decorate salads and cakes. You can also combine them with other plants in mixed containers. They look lovely in pots, whether potted as a collection of individual varieties (as you might do with auriculas), or mixed together. Violas are remarkably versatile and suit a range of garden situations. They then continue to flower throughout the summer and well into September. Many of the viola hybrids start flowering in April (May for the cornutas) and combine beautifully with spring bulbs such as Muscari ‘Valerie Finnis’ and Narcissus triandus ‘Hawera’. There can be few plants that can match the length of the flowering season of violas. The most common scent is of honey, but some varieties are different, such as Viola ‘Alice Kate’ with sherbet yellow flowers and a scent reminiscent of citrus and cloves, another lovely variety is Viola ‘Eris’ with frilly creamy white flowers and she has the scent of delicious vanilla custard! Their parentage is somewhat diverse and they can be striped and splashed, bicoloured or the image of simplicity itself in pure hues of white, yellow, pink, mauve, purple and black. Viola hybrids, as the name suggests, is something of a mixed bag and is the category into which the rest of our large collection is grouped. They are often recommended for ground cover, as they happily spread to make large flowering clumps under shrubs, notably roses, with which they combine extremely well. ![]() The flowers of Viola cornuta have characteristically narrow elongated petals that are so delicate, yet these are remarkably hardy robust little plants. It has long stems to hold the purple, honey scented flowers high enough above the surrounding grasses to attract the attention of passing insects. Viola cornuta is a species that originates in the meadows of the Pyrenees. The violas we grow can be loosely grouped into Viola cornutas and Viola hybrids. Laura: Violas are plants with personality, which is what attracted us to them in the first place their smiling faces and sunny disposition. I asked Laura to tell us how to grow and enjoy them in our gardens. They are all perennial types and range from some very old and precious heritage varieties to the latest, most exciting introductions. An Interview with Laura and Jack Wildgoss of Wildegoose NurseriesĪndy: Laura and Jack Wildgoss grow a lot of violas at Wildegoose Nurseries in South Shropshire, UK. ![]() 7/1/2023 0 Comments My story isnt over tattoo![]() ![]() “Tattooing is a tradition that has been alive and breathed in new life in our generation. In an interview with Welcome to Chinatown, she shares: This coincides with co-founder of Long Time Tattoo Celeste Lai’s words on the connection between tattooing and body reclamation. Indigenous communities across the globe also consider tattooing as a preservation and amplification of cultural integrity and belonging. Every tattoo was a declaration of self: “This is my body.” Similarly, Lacsamana believes that whenever a person gets a tattoo, “You are becoming more ‘I am’-more yourself.” But early in her tattoo journey, she recognized the courage that younger Wiji already had before getting inked, even while hiding. This shifted over time when Lacsamana started choosing body placements that appeared more visible to others. Lacsamana, who is also an illustrator and author, shared that growing up in a Catholic and conservative academic family, she got her tattoos in secret. We gathered to have conversations on tattooing, which began with the topic of body autonomy. One Saturday morning, I had breakfast with tattoo artists Alaga and Wiji Lacsamana at Tattoo Nebula, a tattoo and piercing studio in Manila, Philippines. For others, tattooing is a form of body liberation and healing: Choosing to mark one’s body and determining which designs to be permanently marked with is a reclamation. Tattooing is more than decorative: It is a form of devotion to one’s true self and community.Īrtistically and resolutely, many of the colonized today counteract the violence of cultural and religious erasure by getting inked. Tattooing is medicinal and sacred, symbolizing a person’s great milestones, beauty, and bravery. For most Christians, tattoos are biblically forbidden, with verses like Leviticus 19:28 instructing to “not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves.” The case is vastly different for communities outside the West-especially to Indigenous peoples. The majority of Western cultures and religious traditions have associated tattoos with criminality, primitivity, and other forms of unsophistication. Our bodies carry stories and there are many ways to tell them, with various types of ink and alternatives to paper.įor centuries, tattooing has represented much more than mere aesthetic or a tough facade. personal notes from the evening I got my first tattoo in 2022 ![]() Tattooing is a reiteration of “by wounds, am healed.” Symbolized honor, achievement, and beauty. Tattooing is a holy permanence on my brown skin,Ī deliberate reverence to Indigenous ancestors, whose tattoos While labeling the ink on our skin as dirty and demonic Tattooing is a sacred “fuck you” to colonizers and their attempted erasure of us, As opposed to the ones that violently invaded my being, ![]() |