Cutting out what you draw
A field of stripes shown through two cut-outs: a disc from the nonzero rule, and a frame from the even-odd rule over two nested rectangles.
Text and shapes filled with a gradient
A gradient used as the colour something is filled with: a headline whose letters are windows onto a blend of three colours, and a panel filled with a circular one.
Painting a gradient into a box is one thing; making a gradient the colour something is filled with is another. A headline's letters then become windows onto a blend of three colours, and a panel fills with a circular one.
The gradient belongs to the page rather than to each letter, so every letter shows the part of the blend that happens to be behind it — which is why the effect reads as one continuous sweep across the word rather than as the same sweep repeated inside each glyph.
What this example shows
- A gradient used as a fill colour rather than painted directly.
- Text whose glyphs show the gradient behind them.
- The gradient pinned to the page, so it spans the whole word.
The code, in full
The same document is written twice, once in each language. Both files are shown in full, with the code coloured on the server, and can be copied in one click.
The document itself
The same document is written in each of these languages. Open the one you want to look at.
What this document weighs
| Before | 108,742 bytes |
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| Now | 38,009 bytes |
| Saved | 65.0 % |
Not one mark on the page changed. See every document measured.
Examples near this one
Transparency and blend modes
Half-transparent fills that overlap and mix, and one orange square laid over a blue bar in four different ways of mixing colours.
Gradients in a line and in a circle
Gradients in a line and in a circle painted into boxes the page cuts out: a two-colour blend across and another on the diagonal, a circular one whose outer colour is carried out to the corners, and one passing through three colours.
Content shown and hidden by layer
One floor plan on four layers a reader shows and hides: the furniture and the dimensions shown, the notes hidden until asked for, and a draft mark that is looked at but never printed.
One drawing, placed many times
One badge built as a drawing and placed eight times, plus once at half size: the file holds the drawing once, however many times it is placed.
One pattern, repeated across whatever it fills
Six panels filled with repeating patterns — bars, dots, a slant got without redrawing the pattern, a brick wall, two patterns crossing, a wider gap — and a logo whose letters are windows onto the bricks.
Glossary
- glyph
- One drawn shape of a typeface. The letter A is a character; the particular drawing of it that lands on the page is a glyph.