This is a submission for Frontend Challenge v24.09.04, Glam Up My Markup: Space
But it's also a submission for Frontend Challenge v24.09.04, CSS Art: Space.
What I Built
I've built an unreadable version of the provided markup that looks like alien signals in space. That's why this is a double-submission — it also works for the CSS Art Challenge 😁
Journey
A fun way to ruin any design is to use:
* { display: contents }
This "removes the parent", so if you add it to all children of a node, there are essentially no tags, only raw content.
Before we go there, let's add some basic styles to body:
body {
aspect-ratio: 1 / 1;
background: radial-gradient(circle at center,
#1d2a30 40%,
#0B1215 75%,
#111);
container-type: inline-size;
display: grid;
margin: 0;
width: 100vw;
We set a square (aspect-ratio) as a grid, with a radial background.
Next, we set the child-elements:
:is(footer, header, section) {
* { display: contents; }
font-size: 3cqi;
grid-area: 1 / 1;
height: 25cqi;
overflow: hidden;
place-content: center;
place-self: center;
text-align: center;
width: 80cqi;
}
We use the "grid-stack" technique to place all the children in the same grid-cell.
This gives us:
What a mess! Now, let's add rotation and color:
footer { rotate: 300deg; color: #FFFD; }
header { color: #FFFA; }
section {
&:nth-of-type(1) { rotate: 60deg; color: #FFF4; }
&:nth-of-type(2) { rotate: 120deg; color: #FFF9; }
&:nth-of-type(3) { rotate: 180deg; color: #FFFE; }
&:nth-of-type(4) { rotate: 240deg; color: #FFF7; }
}
Now we get:
Almost there! All we need to do is add a weird font and a shaky animation:
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?
family=Redacted+Script&display=swap');
@keyframes shake {
0% { transform: skewY(-15deg); }
1% { transform: skewY(15deg); }
2% { transform: skewY(-15deg); }
3% { transform: skewY(15deg); }
4%, 100% { transform: skewY(0deg); translate: 0; }
5% { translate: -100vw -50vw; }
6% { translate: 100vw 50vw; }
7% { translate: 0; }
}
Demo
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