Last year I added this to the CSS Day whiteboard. Will add it again this year 😃

font-synthesis - CSS | MDN The font-synthesis shorthand CSS property lets you specify whether or not the browser may synthesize the bold, italic, small-caps, and/or subscript and superscript typefaces when they are missing in t...

I recently found the CSS property font-synthesis. Setting this to none will prevent the browser from synthesizing bold and italic styles. I think this should be default behavior and can recommend adding font-synthesis: none; to your CSS reset #CSS

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That was fun!

Great article! I've used this technique and a small downside with the before pseudo element is that it blocks text selection.

Great news!

I noticed anchor positioning doesn't work on a translated element? Are transforms ignored?

anchor-scope | CSS-Tricks The anchor-scope is a property included in the CSS Anchor Positioning module that scopes an "anchor" element to a particular selector, preventing it from

You can solve this with anchor-scope
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HTMLImageElement: sizes property - Web APIs | MDN The HTMLImageElement property sizes allows you to specify the layout width of the image for each of a list of media conditions. This provides the ability to automatically select among different images...

sizes="auto" on images developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...