Welcome to your holiday season CSS Layout News. I'm having my first Christmas week vacation in many years. I did pop my head over the work parapet each morning to make sure Designcember was rolling out. You might enjoy these interviews with Miriam Suzanne and Lynn Fisher that were published over the break.

I have read a few things from the comfort of my sofa, and you'll find those below.

Happy New Year!

Rachel Andrew

Learn

Honor prefers-color-scheme in the CSS Paint API with custom properties

The lengthy title says it all, but this is a neat look at how using custom properties means you can control the way a worklet renders right from CSS.

Empathetic animation

Some things to think about when adding animation to your site, to ensure it really is there to help the user.

Interesting

Alternate column scroll navigation

This is a very nice demo!

Building Designcember

A look at how the Designcember site was created from concept to implementation.