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Joe Steinbring

Tailwind CSS

A utility-first CSS framework: instead of a Button component you compose small classes onto the element. It is the deliberate opposite of Bootstrap and Bulma, trading ready-made components for control.

I have worked through Tailwind’s utility-first approach to typography, borders, shapes, and backgrounds.

Articles written
2
CodePen pens written
23
Official website
tailwindcss.com
Age
9 years (since 2017)

Experience highlights

  • Composed layouts from utility classes rather than bespoke stylesheets.
  • Compared the utility-first model against the component frameworks I use elsewhere.

From the blog

Related writing

Articles from JWS News and DEV that relate to Tailwind CSS.

  1. Learning Tailwind: Borders, Shapes and Backgrounds

    A few weeks ago, I started a series where I planned to cover Tailwind to the best of my ability. Over the years, I have used Bootstrap and Bulma a heck of a lot but I wanted to branch out a little. Today’s post is going to cover borders, shapes, and backgrounds. Let’s get starte…

  2. Learning Tailwind: Fonts and Typography

    One of my goals for this year is to become more familiar with Tailwind CSS. As part of that, I am going to post a few things on the topic to the blog. This week, I intend to focus on fonts and typography.

From CodePen

Small, self-contained Tailwind CSS examples that I published publicly.

Showing 12 of 23 examples.

  1. Tailwind 1: Fonts and Typography -- Font Family

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  2. Tailwind 1: Fonts and Typography -- Font Size

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  3. Tailwind 1: Fonts and Typography -- Font Style

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  4. Tailwind 1: Fonts and Typography -- Font Weight

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  5. Tailwind 1: Fonts and Typography -- Text Alignment

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  6. Tailwind 1: Fonts and Typography -- Text Color

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  7. Tailwind 1: Fonts and Typography -- Text Color 2

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  8. Tailwind 1: Fonts and Typography -- Text Decoration

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  9. Tailwind 1: Fonts and Typography -- Text Opacity

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  10. Tailwind 2: Borders, Shapes and Backgrounds -- 240px x 240px Ball

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  11. Tailwind 2: Borders, Shapes and Backgrounds -- 240px x 240px Gradient Ball

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  12. Tailwind 2: Borders, Shapes and Backgrounds -- 240px x 240px Red Ball

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