Every letter in this “font” by Davor Suljic is a single div and drawn only with border
. That means employing some trickery like border-radius
with exotic syntax like border-radius: 100% 100% 0 0 / 37.5% 37.5% 0 0;
which rounds just the top of an element with a certain chillness that works here. Plus, using pseudo-elements. I love all the wacky variations with colors, shadows, and border styles, leaning into the limits of CSS.

Drawing things with CSS has long fascinated people. Icons are a popular choice (famously, Nicolas Gallagher’s Pure CSS GUI icons from 2010), since we can draw so many shapes with CSS without even needing to lean on the all-powerful clip-path
.
But as Lynn Fisher has taught us, a single div is barely a limitation at all.
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