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Small tools for a nicer web

SelfStartDev makes small, open-source packages for the web: backgrounds that feel designed rather than generated, and typesetting that gets the details right.

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Each one has docs and a playground to try it in, and each preview below is drawn by the package itself.

No. 01

blobscape

Seeded, organic background shapes. Same page, same blobs, every time.

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No. 02

ridgescape

Layered landscape backgrounds: ridges fading into the haze, with scroll parallax.

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No. 03

linescape

Designed background lines: bands, sweeps, wiggles, loops and swirls.

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No. 04

setwell

Typesetting for HTML: curly quotes, proper dashes, hanging punctuation and no widows, in one pass.

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SelfStartDev is Brian making the small things he wants on the web, and writing about how they work.

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