The `-path` of Least Resistance (Part 1)
September 8, 2025
There’s a whole layer of CSS that lives just below the surface of most interfaces. It’s not about layout, spacing, or typography. It’s about shape. About cutting through the default boxes and letting your UI move in new directions. This series is all about one such family of features, the kind that doesn’t just style your layout but gives you entirely new ways to shape, animate, and express your interface.In this first part, we’ll explore clip-path. We’ll start simple, move through the functions and syntax, and work our way up to powerful shape logic that goes way beyond the basic polygons you might be used to. And just when you think things can’t get any more dynamic, part two will kick in with offset-path, where things really start to move.
Source: The `-path` of Least Resistance (Part 1) – Frontend Masters Blog
When we think about layout for the web to do with CSS, we think about boxes because the box model is central to CSS-based layout.
But there is a way to bring non-rectangular shapes to our design. Amit Sheen explores this in this two-part series beginning with clip-path.
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