Icons are the hardest isometric art to get right because there is so little room. At small sizes one of the three faces usually has to go, so we pick the two that best describe the object. A book keeps its cover and spine; a box keeps its top and front. Deciding early saves a lot of redrawing.
Sketches from the transforms talk
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We keep every demo in a small repository with one folder per post. Each folder has the HTML, the CSS and a short note on what we tried and dropped. Months later, when a reader asks why a tutorial does something a certain way, the note usually has the answer and saves us a long investigation.
Eli Novak
Short and useful. More quick tips like this, please.
Rosa Medina
Tiny typo in the second code block: the unit is missing on the translate value.
Nina Ahlberg
This finally made the order of rotations click for me. I had them the wrong way round for weeks.
Omar Haddad
Love the palette. Could you share the exact lightness values?
Pia Jensen
This is the clearest explanation of draw order I have read.
Theo OkaforAuthor
The templates are in the downloads section of the reference post.
Hana Sato
I teach an intro CSS class and I am going to use this as the final project.
Farah Aziz
Thanks! A follow-up is already in the drafts.
Kofi Mensah
Our designer drew the scene in Figma and I rebuilt it with your approach in an afternoon.
Ivo Petrov
Great write-up. Would love a follow-up on doing the same thing with SVG.
Theo OkaforAuthor
Good question. Usually that means something is flattening the 3D context; check for overflow hidden on a parent.
Chen Wei
Fixed now, thanks for spotting it.