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406: Hot Trends of 2025

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Marie and Chris jump on to discuss some of the trends of what people are building on CodePen here, approximately halfway through 2025.

New CSS!
  • Custom @functions (just landed)
  • if() function
  • clip-path & shape()
  • corner-shape and the superellipse
  • Scrolling stuff
  • The attr() power up
    • Hot Styles
    • Liquid glass (Jhey's demo, Spark)
    • Hard glitch (CRT-like effect with VFX-JS, Glitchy button hover effect with VFX-JS, ❍ Cinematic Glitch Slideshow)
    • Holographics (CSS Holographic Masks)
    • Grainy textures (Grainy distorted interactive 1 gradient blobs)
    • Innovative blurs (wavy wobbly lava orb, Bubbles Background Animation)
    • New color spaces (OKLCH Swatch Example, CSS Color Functions, CSS oklch Gradation)
      • Hot Pens
      • Petr Knoll’s Glass Button (From February, well ahead of liquid glass)
      • Mike Bespalov’s Monospace ASCII art generator (known to be “vibe coded”)
      • Adam Kuhn’s Severance Lumon Macrodata Refinement
      • Steve Gardner’s “Who Needs Shaders”
        • Time Jumps
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