Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders

April 7, 2025

Gradify web interface showing a grid of blurred image gradients in the background and a centered popup. The popup explains that Gradify generates CSS gradients from prominent image colors for smoother placeholders, with buttons labeled 'Single Color' and 'Get Code'

Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!

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This is a genuinely breathtakingly clever CSS only technique for creating Low Quality Image Placeholders (LQIPs).