Initial Letter with Emoji – Frontend Masters Blog

In some random playing around, I saw that the ::first-letter pseudo-element is happy to match an emoji. And then initial-letter is happy to bump it up in size which feels like an easy way to make a kinda fun looking list that would survive syndication and such. Firefox doesn’t support initial-letter but whatever, it’s easily […]

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Subert-Cechy-Vol2/pages/131-initial-letter-v-with-mermaid/

A decorated letter V for a dropped capital, formally an inhabited initial, from an 1884 book about Vltava in Bohemia (Czechia). The V has a mermaid in it, & fishes & an eel swim about her. She’s naked (do mermaids wear clothes?).

Decorated initials are used in print at the start of a chapter, or at the start of a section without a title so you can find it easily.

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Initial letter V with a mermaid

She’s a naked woman from head to knee, but then her legs become a twisted knotted tail with fins at the bottom. This mermaid is wearing a wreath or headdress of roses, a garland symbolising romance

🟡 Control your drop caps with CSS initial-letter
by Jhey Tompkins @jh3yy at @ChromiumDev
#dropcap #initialletter #css #webdev

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/control-your-drop-caps-with-css-initial-letter/

Control your drop caps with CSS initial-letter - Chrome Developers

Say "Goodbye" to interesting workarounds to style your drop caps!

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