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Marie and Chris jump on to discuss some of the trends of what people are building on CodePen here, approximately halfway through 2025.
New CSS!
- Custom @functions (just landed)
- if() function
- clip-path & shape()
- corner-shape and the superellipse
- Scrolling stuff
- The attr() power up
Hot Styles
- Liquid glass (Jhey's demo, Spark)
- Hard glitch (CRT-like effect with VFX-JS, Glitchy button hover effect with VFX-JS, ❍ Cinematic Glitch Slideshow)
- Holographics (CSS Holographic Masks)
- Grainy textures (Grainy distorted interactive 1 gradient blobs)
- Innovative blurs (wavy wobbly lava orb, Bubbles Background Animation)
- New color spaces (OKLCH Swatch Example, CSS Color Functions, CSS oklch Gradation)
Hot Pens
- Petr Knoll’s Glass Button (From February, well ahead of liquid glass)
- Mike Bespalov’s Monospace ASCII art generator (known to be “vibe coded”)
- Adam Kuhn’s Severance Lumon Macrodata Refinement
- Steve Gardner’s “Who Needs Shaders”
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