~/talk

Super Hero Layouts

Talkat NDC London 2023 · 2023-01-23..01-27· [css, creative-coding]
links:none on file
slides:none on file

Recreates comic layouts using concrete techniques: a 16‑column CSS Grid with 12px gaps and grid-auto-rows for Golden Age staggered panels; multi-row spanning to mimic the Spider‑Man bridge fall; a nine‑panel Watchmen grid that keeps one image intact using an overlap container and subgrid (Firefox 2019, Safari 16; Chrome pending) or display:contents fallback; layered panels with z-index, transform and clip-path polygon for irregular shapes; text wrapping via shape-outside and vertical text with writing-mode for manga. Codepens link to live examples.

AI-written summary · about

  1. 0:00Comic book layouts on the web
  2. 5:46CSS grid for modern web
  3. 7:12Golden Age grids
  4. 10:47Bronze Age multi-row panels
  5. 13:13Modern Age subgrid layouts
  6. 21:16Layering panels in comics
  7. 26:41Breaking out of boxy layouts with clip-path
  8. 34:54CSS shapes for panels
  9. 39:48Manga text support
  10. 43:01Comic techniques for web
  11. 44:27Q&A
~/search
type to search 6,249 conferences, 138,987 speakers and 185,172 talks
~/help
cmdctrl k
search every conference, speaker and series
/
focus the filter search
h
home
c
conferences
s
speakers
e
series
t
light / dark — the status bar button does the same
?
this help
esc
close this, then clear every filter — or just the search, while you are typing in it

Ignored while you are typing. Pages without a filter rail have no search to focus.