Build smarter color systems with relative colors

Relative colors are one of my favorite new features in CSS, and in this video I take a bit of time exploring why. (this video is reposted, the original one was missing the last 2 minutes!) 🔗 Links ✅ The demo: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/wB... ✅ The pragmatic guide to color, part one: https://piccalil.li/blog/a-pragmatic-... ✅ The pragmatic guide to color, part 2: https://piccalil.li/blog/a-pragmatic-... ✅ Piccalilli's courses: https://piccalil.li/courses/ ✉ Keep up to date with everything I'm up to https://www.kevinpowell.co/newsletter 💬 Come hang out with other devs in my Discord Community   / discord   ⭐ Are you a beginner? HTML & CSS for absolute beginners is for you: https://learn.kevinpowell.co 🎓 Start writing CSS with confidence with CSS Demystified: [https://cssdemystified.com](https://cssdemystified.com/) 🚀 Already mastered CSS? Check out my advanced course, Beyond CSS: https://www.beyondcss.dev/ --- Help support my channel 👨‍🎓 Get a course: https://www.kevinpowell.co/courses 👕 Buy a shirt: https://cottonbureau.com/people/kevin... 💖 Support me on Patreon:   / kevinpowell   or through YT memberships:    / @kevinpowell   --- 🧑‍💻 My editor: VS Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/ 🌈 My theme: One Dark Pro Var Night 🔤 My font: Cascadia Code --- I'm on some other places on the internet too! If you'd like a behind the scenes and previews of what's coming up on my YouTube channel: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/kevinpowell.co Codepen: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/ Github: https://github.com/kevin-powell --- And whatever you do, don't forget to keep on making your corner of the internet just a little bit more awesome! ⌚ Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 00:40 - the basics of relative colors 04:20 - why this is so powerful 06:50 - the pragmatic guide to color 07:45 - using oklch instead of hsl #css