Seven links worth your time this week. Each with one line on why we saved it.
1. Huetone: color systems in OKLCH, finally usable
huetone.ardov.me: A color-tooling site that lets you generate full perceptually-uniform palettes in OKLCH and audit contrast across every step. The closest tool we’ve seen to “Material Theme Builder for grown-ups.” Free, open source.
2. Cooper Hewitt redesign
cooperhewitt.org: The Smithsonian’s design museum redesigned this month. The collection-browse pages are the most thoughtfully-paced museum site we’ve seen since the Met’s 2023 update. Note especially how each artifact’s detail page uses a single full-bleed image with a sticky metadata column.
3. Steve Schoger thread on cursor effects
twitter.com/steveschoger: A thread breaking down the recent revival of cursor effects (custom cursors, cursor-following highlights, click ripples): when they elevate a page and when they’re 2014 cosplay. Saved for the principle “if the cursor effect is the most interesting thing about your page, fix the page.”
4. The “redesigning Wikipedia” Figma file is open again
figma.com/community: Andy Cook’s well-known Wikipedia redesign Figma file got dusted off and republished with 2026 components. Still the single best teaching artifact for layout grids on dense content sites. Worth duplicating to your account just to read the layer structure.
5. Pentagram on the Slack rebrand (5 years later)
pentagram.com: Pentagram published a long retrospective on the 2019 Slack rebrand they led, with internal mood boards, killed directions, and the actual fight over the original lozenge. The kind of behind-the-scenes piece you almost never get from agencies of this size.
6. CSS text-wrap: balance is finally everywhere
caniuse.com/css-text-wrap-balance: As of this week, text-wrap: balance is supported across every evergreen browser. If you’re still hand-fixing widows in headlines with <br> tags or non-breaking spaces, stop. One CSS line solves it for every responsive size.
7. Brad Frost on Atomic Design’s tenth anniversary
bradfrost.com: Brad Frost wrote a long retrospective on Atomic Design at 10, including which parts he’d do differently. The most useful piece of design-system writing we’ve read this year, even if you’ve never used Atomic Design directly.
That’s the week. The next link roundup lands the Saturday after next.