8 amazing CSS techniques to use right now

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Recent years have teased us with incredible CSS features such as Flexbox and variable fonts, but the most exciting time to be a web developer is right now as plenty of exciting new features are edging towards almost 100% support in today's web browsers. 

We originally published this piece in 2019, as we were looking ahead to new CSS techniques, but now a lot of these CSS properties and specifications are actually live, let's take another look at what's available.

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Rachel is a developer, speaker, author and co-founder of Perch CMS.
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