Are you planning to create your first CSS art for fun? Start with the basic shapes.
Here are 26 easy to hard shapes and figures you can try first 🧵👇🏻
In general, analyze any image and try to think how can you make it using different shapes.
Two concepts that you need to master
1. border-radius
2. linear-gradient
1. Circle Yellow 🔵
- Pretty simple, we just need to make a square and apply the border-radius 50% in order to give it a circular shape
2. Semi-circle First 🌓
- Create a rectangle
- Apply border-radius top left and top right same as the height of the rectangle
3. Triangle 🔺
- Creating a triangle is little bit tricky
- Set height and width as zero
- To make this, we draw a solid border and make the side border transparent
4. Trapezium
- Same as a triangle but in this case we need to set some width
5. Parallelogram 🔳
- Create a rectangle
- Apply skew in order to tilt it
6. Hexagon 💠
- Creating a hexagon is very easy
- We need to make two trapeziums of the same size but make sure that the other trapezium should be upside down
- Align them perfectly
7. Drop 💧
- Create a square
- Apply 50% border-radius to all the sides except one side
- Rotate in such a manner so that tip comes to top
8. Diamond 💎
- Combination of Trapezium and triangle
9. Cross ❎
- Create two rectangles
- Place them over each other vertically and horizontally
- Rotate 45deg
10. Egg 🥚
- Using an advanced border-radius technique
11. Star Glowing 🌟
- Create two triangle upside down
- Align the second triangle in the middle of the first one
12. Moon 🌙
- Transparent background
- Apply box-shadow
13. Coffee ☕
14. Heart ❤️
- Two rectangles with top round border-radius
15. Infinity ♾️
It may look tough but trust me I created this symbol using border-radius only
16. Arrow ▶️
Combination of the rectangle and a triangle
17. Star ⭐
Combination of two triangles
18. Magnifying glass 🔍
You guessed it right! It's just a simple circle and small rectangle
19. Pacman
20. 8 Point 🌟
Two squares overlapping each other
21. Pentagon ✒
- Create a trapezium
- Create a triangle
- Merge them both
22. Leaf 🍀
- Just the matter or border-radius
23. Yin and Yang
Looks tough but actually, it is not
24. Mobile Phone 📱
25. Headphones 🎧
26. Spectacles 👓
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