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Hi there my friend and friend.
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If you're maintaining separate variables for lighter, darker, and transparent versions of the same color, there's a much better way to work because of CSS relative colors
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that let us generate all of these variations based on a single value.
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Let's dive in and see how this works.
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I got a demo set up for us right here.
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And we can take a look.
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So you can see I have some variables set up and I have some, I'm using toast notifications for this
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because I think it's a nice example of something where we can have multiple variations of this as well
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and we can look at how we're saving a lot of time.
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So the very first thing I'm going to do is let's come in
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and sort of style the generic one and then we'll sort of fancy things up from there.
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And really quickly there, I just made the font size bigger because I think it'd look better for our demo.
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So here, let's set things up.
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I'm going to come in and we're just going to come in on this to start with and do a, I call it toast color and put a color here.
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And I'm going to use the base color for now.
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So we're going to say it's our var of base color.
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And this is going to help us a little bit out, just base like that.
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This will help us out a little bit later on.
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This could be a step that we do later.
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It could even be a step that you skip
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if this is something that you're only doing one thing of
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and you don't need a bunch of variations like we're going to have here.
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Now, next step, I'm going to do something
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that looks a little bit weird because I'm going to say we're going to color.
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I'm going to do an HSL from, and this is relative colors.
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And I'll explain the syntax of this as we write it out.
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I'm going to say var toast color.
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And then I'm going to HSL.
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and nothing really should change actually and I need a semicolon at the end
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and as you can see nothing really much has changed
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but what we're saying is the color is an HSL value
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that is coming from the toast color and this H
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and S and L are just placeholders for the hue saturation
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and lightness and we'll see why that's important in a minute just
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so we can see quickly that this is working
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if I change this over to my info we're going to see
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that the color of the text and the border has changed on all of them.
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The reason the border color is currently changing is because my border is set to two pixels solid, I haven't declared a color, and borders by default will follow the color of the text.
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But for now I'm going to keep this one as my base
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and we'll come in with the modifications for the other ones as we go through.
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Now where this gets a little bit more useful is let's come in with a background color.
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So background color, I'm going to put this on a different line just
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so we can keep it all without any horizontal scrolling.
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I'm going to say HSL from, same thing, my var of toast, you gotta spell toast right,
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toast color, and space, H space S space L, except this time if I do that I can't read my text.
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But I want it to always be based on the color of the text.
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I can just come here and actually change the lightness value.
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So I can actually say this is at like 15%, except that's going to be really dark.
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I meant to say something like 85% and go the other way around.
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And we can have the exact same color, but 85%.
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And maybe even we can come up to a 90 here, something like that.
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But we're getting that a little bit of that same color coming in in the background now.
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And this is cool, right?
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We're just replacing whatever the lightness was with it being 90% now in our HSL.
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And just for fun, we can also take this to another level
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and we can add like a box shadow here as well.
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So I'm going to actually move, we'll do the box shadow here, box shadow.
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And again, I'll do this on two lines just so we can see the entire declaration.
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And let's come in with zero offset, maybe 12 pixels, 12 pixels.
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I'm going to leave it big for now.
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Like it really is standing out obviously, but then we can come in with, and this is another really cool thing with our relative colors.
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So HSL from var toast color and my H, my S, my L, except in this case, it's really dark and I go,
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oh man, I need a shadow, but I want to lower the opacity of it.
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We can do that with relative colors, which is amazing.
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So I just do a forward slash here because this is the way the space separated syntax works in CSS.
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If you'd like to learn more about that, I talked about it last week.
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I'll put a link in the description
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and there might be a card popping up you can check
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that one out and I'll remind you at the end
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but I can just come here and say something like 0.25
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or whatever I want for the lower opacity of that same color
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and you can see that's working I want to make this a bit more subtle
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so I'm also going to give it a spread of negative
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eight just to pull it in a little bit just give
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us a little subtle shadow underneath each one of those cards
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or toasts or whatever we want to call them awesome
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so that's all working now this is where the other cool
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thing comes in here is I have my info my warning and my error here.
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And I'm just doing these with data attributes because this would be the easiest way to do it with JavaScript.
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Especially if you're, you know, instead of using a class here, I think it makes a lot more sense to do it with a data attribute because if you're setting it with JavaScript, you just set it.
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You don't have to worry about removing the info to put a warning or, you know, you just say if it's this one, the text is going to be coming in probably from JavaScript as well.
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The whole thing's going to be triggered with JavaScript and you just do the data, what toast is equal to, and you style it that way.
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So let's come down here
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and we'll start with the first one where we can say the data toast is equal to info.
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And because I was set this up with a custom property of toast color, we can just come here and say in this case, my toast color is my, did I call it info?
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Yeah, I did.
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Look at that.
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There we go.
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So my info comes in.
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Now there's a bit of a problem here.
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We're gonna solve that in a second, but let's come in with all three of them.
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So that's my info.
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And the last one will be, so info, I forget what I called them, warning and error.
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So these two, that's a warning.
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And then I can come on this one and say those are error.
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And all the colors are coming in.
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It's looking pretty cool that we can do all of this with a single color and everything is adapting automatically.
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There's
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So one problem that's coming in is like the text might
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be a little bit hard to read depending on what color you're using.
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Especially like, I don't know, I guess this one's okay, but we could definitely make it better.
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So what I'm going to do is come back up to where we declared all of this.
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And over here I want this color to actually always be dark no matter what value I'm using.
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So maybe I come in with a 20% here for the lightness on the color and then it's going to be, you know, based on the red or based on that orange yellow,
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but I know it's always going to be darker.
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my borders have sort of gotten darker too, but we just do the same thing for the border where I never actually declared one.
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I'm just going to copy and paste to speed things up, and this one will just use the original HSL.
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And I guess I could, if you're not changing the value, you could just do the Vartos color and not worry about it,
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and that would work, but this just opens up some extra doors I think.
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So we have the border color always coming in with sort of the more bright, vibrant version
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and then the text we can darken maybe 20 is a
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bit low we could try like a 35 you can play with the number
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that you want on that to just make sure
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that it's always something that's decently readable but we can do better
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and before i let you know how we can do better i just want to let you know
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that this video is inspired by an article or two articles actually
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that i wrote for picolily and
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so i'm going to link to both of those down below
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they're the pragmatic guide to modern colors discolors in css i
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think is what we called it uh there's two articles in
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there the first one is really for people who are copying
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pasting colors the second one is going a little bit further
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and diving into a lot more of the manipulations and other things
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that you can do
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and just you know we're talking about pick a lily people
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have been asking me for javascript content for a long time
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they do have a relatively new course called javascript for everyone and so
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if you're somebody who's looking to learn more about javascript i definitely would recommend going to check it out
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and no this is not a sponsored bit i just like spreading the word on good quality content
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that is out there so check out the course check out those articles
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if you're interested but now let's look at the other improvement
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that we can make to this which is
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while i have all of these set up using hsl rgb
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hex you know your copy pasting from your design software whatever it is
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and you're setting these here
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when using relative colors you can often get a little bit of a better result by using oklch
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and oklch is a newer it's like it's like came around more recently.
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But the difference between HSL and OKLCH is as you go through the different hues, it works in a much more consistent way.
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So what I mean by that really quickly is looking at this demo, I've set these both up with OKLCH and HSL.
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And if I go through the different hues, as you get to here, you can see like this text becomes harder to read.
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And it really depends on the color that we're using.
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When you get to yellows, visually it gets a lot brighter, even though the saturation and the lightness values have stayed the same.
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And the whole point of the OK LCH in general is to keep
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that consistency as you're going through the different hues in terms of the perception of the brightness of the colors.
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And so here's an example of looking at the differences between using, I've set these up exactly the same way, I just took away the gray one.
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but you have the base toast color coming in and I've set them all up with OK LCH here instead.
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The border I just set with the base color, like I said, we could do if it's staying the same.
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But one thing you'll notice here, there's two important things is if I'm doing OK LCH on the outside here, I do need to use the LCH values.
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So LCH instead of an HSL and the lightness being the first one now.
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and I've done a little bit of extra math in here
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for the background color to change the chroma a little bit
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but you can see there's a little bit more consistency between the colors coming in
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when I'm using the OKLCH versus using the HSL here with
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the the border color is perceptually looks similar the vibrancy of
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the color of the background looks much more similar whereas here
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like the difference in the border color especially I find with
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this one coming through the border looks much more faded out compared to the blue
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which one is popping so much more
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when I'm using the HSL it's not something
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that a lot of users are going to notice
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but by using OKLCH even though my base color is set to an HSL
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or whatever you know hex or RGB it doesn't really matter by using the OKLCH throughout
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and having my toast colors all set through an OKLCH rather than using an HSL and modifying it that way,
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you just get a little bit more consistency between the different colors that are being generated for you.
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So if you enjoyed this video, if you do want a bit of a primer on the space separated syntax, like I mentioned, that video should be showing up on the screen somewhere right now.
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And also if you want to dive deeper into all of this, do go and check out those two Piccadilly articles and maybe their courses as well.
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And with that, I would like to thank my enabler of awesome, Johnny, as well as all my other patrons and channel members for their monthly support.
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And of course, until next time, don't forget to make your corner of the internet just a little bit more awesome.
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Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “Build smarter color systems with relative colors”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: color, hsl, toast, border. Deze video bevat 168 zinnen en 2375 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 10:41. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 222 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 85% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| toast zelfstandig naamwoord | /toʊst/ | toost, geroosterd brood |
| hue zelfstandig naamwoord | /hju/ | schakering, kleurschakering |
| syntax zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɪn.tæks/ | syntaxis |
| pixel zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɪk.səl/ | pixel |
| declare werkwoord | /dɪˈklɛɚ/ | verklaren |
| demo zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdɛm.oʊ/ | demo, demonstratie |
| variation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/ | afwisseling, variatie |
| saturation zelfstandig naamwoord | verzadiging | |
| attribute zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæt.ɹɪˌbjut/ | attribuut, eigenschap |
| paste zelfstandig naamwoord | /peɪst/ | deeg |
| darken werkwoord | /ˈdɑɹkən/ | verduisteren, verdonkeren |
| placeholder zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpleɪsˌhoʊldɚ/ | plaatshouder, invul- |
| pragmatic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /pɹæɡˈmætɪk/ | pragmatisch |
| primer zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɹɪm.əɹ/ | abecedarium, leesplankje |
| readable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɹiː.də.bəl/ | afleesbaar, leesbaar |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken | |
| set up werkwoord | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | bereiden, voorbereiden |
| come around werkwoord | /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/ | bijkomen |
| pop up werkwoord | opduiken, te voorschijn komen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Let's dive in and see how this works.
- I'm going to say var toast color.
- I'm going to leave it big for now.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is let · is set · be based |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has changed · haven't declared · I've set |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | colors, which is · people who are · this which is |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 71 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, we're, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/, modification /ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, opacity /oʊˈpæsɪti/, semicolon /ˈsɛmikoʊlən/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/, modification /ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als toast, hue, syntax.
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