Tag Archive: Hue

  1. CSS Icon Backgrounds

    Screenshot of a hue wheel demonstrating the colours used in my post.

    When composing this post, I decided that each of the accompanying icons would work well against coloured discs, gradually rotating in hue as they progressed down the page. The result was something a bit like this: I opted for 12 different colours, so each icon’s hue would change by 30 (hue being measured on a scale of 0-360 degrees). After some thought, I decided to create the discs programmatically using CSS. This has the following benefits over including them as part of the icon image: If I ever decide to add, remove, or edit page content, I wouldn’t need to …