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Published: 2024-03-07 14:00:00


**Hey everyone** ✌️ Here's a quick look at this week's newsletter:

🌐 Explore the Web's Most Minimal Sites  
🖼️ The Hidden Structure of UI Elements  
🎨 Dive into SVG Iconography

Enjoy this week's edition 👋 - Adam at Unicorn Club.  

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To function, components require a specific structure. To appear visually — they don’t. This has been breaking handoff processes for years.

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What is a “color space?” Well first you take some colors. Red, Yellow, Blue. And then you arrange them, however you like, into some kind of space.

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**🧠 Fun Fact**

**First Graphical User Interface**  - The Xerox Alto, developed in the 1970s, was the first computer with a GUI, setting the stage for future interfaces that made technology user-friendly.

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[**View transitions: Handling aspect ratio changes**](https://jakearchibald.com/2024/view-transitions-handling-aspect-ratio-changes/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

When folks ask me for help with view transition animations that "don't quite look right", it's usually because the content changes aspect ratio.

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[**Syntax Highlighting with no spans?!**](https://frontendmasters.com/blog/syntax-highlighting-with-no-spans/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Explore over 200 optimized SVG country flag icons — Perfectly crafted on a 32px grid

[**What is Utility-First CSS?**](https://heydonworks.com/article/what-is-utility-first-css/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

You can’t really appreciate utility-first CSS until you have a decent understanding of CSS itself, so this article will principally be about that.

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