The Kuvée: A Brilliant Gadget That Keeps Swappable Wine Canisters Fresh for a Month

Kuvée is a wine system for the thinking person's drinking person. The post The Kuvée: A Brilliant Gadget That Keeps Swappable Wine Canisters Fresh for a Month appeared first on WIRED.

Take a Trip Through the Wild New World of the Photo-Viz

In a new book out from Gestalten, data-viz guru Nicholas Felton compiles stellar examples of a burgeoning kind of infographic: photo-visualization. The post Take a Trip Through the Wild New World of the Photo-Viz appeared first on WIRED.

Ligature Icons via Pseudo Elements and Icon Fonts

The following is a guest post by Jason Jacobson, a senior engineer for Minneapolis based startup LeadPages®. Jason shows off something I didn't know was possible: turning a string into an icon. This requires an icon font, and I generally refer SVG for icons, but that doesn't stop this from being a bonafide CSS trick that is certainly worth knowing about!

Pseudo elements (i.e. ::before and ::after) have been a big help to me when creating sites, so I came up with an approach for using them alongside ligature icons to create more readable and maintainable code.

Ligature icons? Yep! That's how Google's Material Icons work.

The string "face" here literally turns into an icon of a face.

Rather than use text in the HTML though, you can use a pseudo element. That is, use the content property in CSS to inject the string into any element. Say you have this HTML:

We can append the string to that ("delete"), like this:

[data-icon]::before {

  content: attr(data-icon);

}

Then we can, through the power of magical ligatures, turn that text into an icon. That happens automatically when the font-family is set to one that does ligature icons, like Material Icons.

First you need that icon font available:

The full CSS for the psuedo element icons is more like:

[data-icon]::before {

  content: attr(data-icon);

  font-family: 'Material Icons';

  font-weight: normal;

  font-style: normal;

  font-size: 1em;

  display: inline-block;

  vertical-align: middle;

  width: 1em;

  height: 1em;

  line-height: 1;

  text-transform: none;

  letter-spacing: normal;

  word-wrap: normal;

  white-space: nowrap;

  direction: ltr;



  * Support for all WebKit browsers. */

  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;

   

  * Support for Safari and Chrome. */

  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;



  /* Support for Firefox. */

  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;



  /* Support for IE. */

  font-feature-settings: 'liga';

}

Note: we need to use the font-feature-settings property to make this work in Internet Explorer.

How about a list that shows a selected item:

  
One

  
Two

  
Three

  
Four

See the Pen Pen #01 by CSS-Tricks (@css-tricks) on CodePen.

You could also use it for displaying user states with integrations or forms.

  
Int One

  
Int Two

  
Int Three

  
Int Four

See the Pen Ligature Icons - Error Indicators by CSS-Tricks (@css-tricks) on CodePen.

Notice that for all the examples so far, I haven't added any extra CSS or HTML to get the new icons.

Here is an example of a button that has a :hover and :active state. I've added another attribute to handle the success icon. This is something that could be done with JavaScript, but since this is CSS-Tricks, I went for the pure CSS approach.

See the Pen Pen #03 by CSS-Tricks (@css-tricks) on CodePen.

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Google’s AI Wins First Game in Historic Match With Go Champion

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — After an extraordinarily close contest, Google’s artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has beaten Lee Sedol, one of the world’s top players, in the first game of their historic five-game match at Seoul’s Four Seasons hotel. Known as AlphaGo, this Google creation not only proved it can compete the game’s best, but […] The post Google's AI Wins First Game in Historic Match With Go Champion appeared first on WIRED.

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Women are being driven out or held back from careers in architecture by long hours, childcare, unequal pay and the likelihood of being passed over for promotion, according to a major new survey by the American Institute of Architects released to coincide with International Women's Day. (more…)

Kilogram Studio designs cedar-lined interior for Toronto juice bar

The interior of this juice bar in Toronto is lined with a prefabricated cedar structure that is designed to be dismantled and reconstructed in future locations (+ slideshow). (more…)