- UnmatchedStyle Newsletter
- Posts
- Vol_6.2.25
Website of the week:
Links of the week
You can style alt text like any other text
I like that CSS gives us plenty of opportunities to add finer details when we want them. One of those finer details is making the experience of an image not loading a little better. https://piccalil.li/blog/you-can-style-alt-text-like-any-other-text/
Styling the icon for HTML date and time types
There are several HTML <input> tags with types for dates and times. https://cassidoo.co/post/input-type-date/
 | Bold minimalism is trending again, but it’s nothing new. Explore why this confident, clean design style is resurging, and how it’s rooted in decades of visual clarity and typographic strength. |
Masonry, Item Flow, and… GULP?
There’s a layout type that web designers have been using for a long time now, and yet can’t be easily done with CSS: “masonry” layout, sometimes called “you know, like Pinterest does it” layout. https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/05/21/masonry-item-flow-and-gulp/
CSS snippets
I’ve been thinking about the kind of CSS I write by default when I start a new project. Some of it is habitual. I now use logical properties automatically. It took me a while to rewire my brain, but now seeing left or top in a style sheet looks wrong to me. https://adactio.com/journal/21896
MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0
Over the last few months, all the nerds have gotten excited about Model Context Protocol, or MCP. It's a spec that was designed by Anthropic (the Claude folks) last year to let their LLM know how to ask various apps for information or be able to interact with different systems. https://www.anildash.com/2025/05/20/mcp-web20-20/
MCP: Model-Context-Protocol https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?2103
LLC, S Corp, or Sole Proprietor? Download Besolo’s Free Guide
Each business structure has unique benefits, risks, and financial implications. Our definitive Solopreneur’s Guide breaks down LLCs, S Corps, and Sole Proprietorships in easy-to-follow terms, ensuring you’re fully informed to make strategic choices for your solo business.
Resources To Make You Better
Maximun Effort Logo
This is peak logo design. I'm not kidding.
This is the logo for Maximum Effort, Ryan Reynolds' production company and marketing agency. (The name comes from a catchphrase used in the Deadpool movie.)
It's an M and it's an E, and it looks like it was drawn by child.
It's an ironic twist on the name Maximum Effort that makes it memorable and completely appropriate for anyone who knows Ryan Reynolds' personality.
I'm sure as soon as the idea of a logo came up, he immediately thought "Well, obviously we have to put as little effort into it as possible." (Update: Thanks to Bryan Veloso for pointing out that it's the E from Comic Sans, because of course it is.)
And he was right. It's perfect. It's exactly what it needed to be, and it takes a truly iconic logo to accomplish that.
And if that's not enough proof that Ryan Reynolds is a marketing genius, there's the fact that if you go to the Maximum Effort website, the menu item for their About page sa
ys "Aboot" because he's Canadian.
VIA: LinkedIN post by James Archer
Some Favorite Things
