The Plus team just released a free Figma UI Kit and Design System called Sprout. It has 1300+ Components and 250+ Pages. There are not many Figma design kits that focus on WordPress and so they wanted to make available layouts and designs that would assist in WordPress website creation.

This site is an example of CSS animation. It it uses clip path polygons to create animal shapes. Pretty cool example of what can be done with some of the emerging CSS animation support and things like polygons. Web kit browsers have full support (for polygons), it’s limited in Firefox. There is a how it’s made page that describes the technique.

New simplified syntax for media queries already at about 90% browser support.

From Kevin Powell’s podcast, his musings on the rate of adoption of different CSS features.

Here is a table showing the CSS options per Gutenberg block. If you compare it to the list from 6.1, which is linked in the post, it seems that most blocks got 2-3 additional style options.

The theme.json file, which is used in block and hybrid themes, is getting a bump to version 3 in order to account for some default font and spacing size changes.

Dave Martin is a product designer for Automattic. He created a free course on getting design feedback which includes a number of techniques and processes for feedback from different groups of people.

This proposal on the Make blog using “Bits” as dynamic tokens as a replacement for shortcodes. Bits are placeholders for content and use an HTML comments syntax.

Image resources – These days there are sites with over a million images that you can use. Here is a new one: all of the images were created with AI and are public domain.