20 CSS Tags & Chips Designs

Pixel Grid

Chip background is a tiny dotted CSS pattern reading as retro/print. On hover the dot density increases via background-size transition.

Pixel Grid the 9th of 20 designs in the 20 CSS Tags & Chips Designs collection. The design is implemented in pure CSS — no JavaScript required. Copy the HTML and CSS panels below into your project. Because the demo is pure CSS, it works in any framework or templating engine you happen to use. The design honours prefers-reduced-motion and uses real semantic markup, so it ships accessibility-ready out of the box.

Live preview

The code

<a href="#" class="ctc-pixel">RETRO</a>

.ctc-pixel {
  display: inline-flex;
  align-items: center;
  padding: 9px 18px;
  border: 2px solid #f5a84a;
  border-radius: 4px;
  background-color: #1a1410;
  background-image: radial-gradient(#f5a84a 1px, transparent 1px);
  background-size: 8px 8px;
  color: #f5a84a;
  font:
    700 12px/1 ui-monospace,
    monospace;
  letter-spacing: 0.14em;
  text-decoration: none;
  transition:
    background-size 0.4s ease,
    color 0.2s ease,
    border-color 0.2s ease;
}

.ctc-pixel:hover {
  background-size: 4px 4px;
  color: #ffd479;
  border-color: #ffd479;
}