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The gra­di­ent has become a uni­ver­sal crutch. Hypocrisy, we know, con­sid­er­ing parts of this blog’s cur­rent design. Gra­di­ents have a habit of dec­o­rat­ing since the design trends intro­duced by Web 2.0 gloss. The star­burst badges and text reflec­tions may have faded into obscu­rity, but the brash gra­di­ent stuck it out.
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See the orig­i­nal post here:
Design­ing With­out Gradients