Components

Building a component that is square on purpose

Rita Delgado 28 August 2026 1 min read

Corners are a token, not a decision made 40 times.

One token

Every component routes its corners through --retro-border-radius, so one declaration rounds the whole framework.

Pills are named for their shape, and tables ignore border-radius outright because border-collapse: collapse merges their cell borders.

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Writes about interface archaeology and the parts of the web that refuse to die.