Cubic Bezier Design Scale

Designing in the browser with super granular control over every aspect of the design!

Discovering the use of negative animation delays in combination with the ability to access CSS vars within keyframes opened a whole set of ideas to me, that go far beyond animation.

Define the boundaries (globally or by element) you want to design in and explore them almost infinity with a single bezier curve. Works with size, color, time... whatever CSS can interpolate.

The setup

  1. Set up a @keyframe animation with at least a min 0% and a max 100%. CSS Line 90
  2. Within those keyframes set the the CSS bounderies to your desired props: ex. 0%: font-size: .1em; 100%: font-size: 7em; CSS Line 96
  3. Set a paused animation animaimation on every element you want to control. (with a duration of 10s for example). Make sure the animation repeats in alternation. CSS Line 14
  4. By setting a negative animation delay. You are now controlling where on the design curvle (animation-time) your element sits. CSS Line 69 
    example for a linear timing function:

keyframes: 0%----------------100%
value:     .1em              7em
delay:       -1s    -5s     -10s
  5. As a bonus: use CSS vars to propagate properties to a single animation, in order to have a granular control over the min and max for each element CSS Lines 61, 62
  6. Finally: Change the the timing function of the set animation to play with your design. CSS Line 17

Make sure to check the CSS tab to learn more about the technical implementation.

I'm so excited about this idea that I have trouble sleeping :D. If you ever use this for anything I would love if you let me know @meodai (or if you already have of course)

mind blown

Safari does not font-size animations in REM, make sure to use EM's

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