About

A designer's resource, reborn.

CSS Crème started years ago as a destination for web designers — free website templates, icon packs, design tutorials, and a gallery celebrating the best of web design. This is that site, rebuilt for 2026.

The same DNA

The heart hasn't changed. Templates, icons, a inspiration of the best web design, and hands-on tutorials are still the core — the resources designers actually reach for. We're rebuilding each one with modern, accurate, genuinely useful content rather than republishing what came before.

Something new on top

What's new is the toolkit: fast CSS tools for gradients, shadows and glassmorphism, with more on the way. They share one rule with everything else here — they run entirely in your browser. Your code, colors and layouts never get uploaded, there's no account to create, and nothing tracks you. That privacy isn't a marketing line; it's how the tools are built.

How we work

Two principles guide what ships. We write specific, honest content — no inflated numbers, no invented reviews, no filler. And we stay in our lane: web design and front-end. That focus is what made the original useful, and it's what keeps the rebuild trustworthy.

Practically, that means a few things you'll notice. Tutorials show real, runnable code rather than vague advice. Templates are readable from top to bottom, so they teach as much as they save. And tools copy out plain CSS you could have written yourself, just faster, with no lock-in and no proprietary syntax to unlearn later.

Why a rebuild and not a reprint

Old design content ages badly. Techniques that were clever in 2009 are now one line of modern CSS, and copying stale pages forward helps nobody. So we rebuild from scratch: the topics that still matter, written for how the web works today. Grid and Flexbox instead of float hacks, custom properties instead of find-and-replace, clamp() instead of a stack of breakpoints.

The result is a site that honors where it came from without pretending it's still that decade. Same mission, current tools.

What's next

The collections grow steadily: more templates across the categories, additional icon sets, fresh tutorials, and new tools like a CSS-to-Tailwind converter and a bento-grid builder. Everything stays free and client-side.

The aim is simple: every resource here should be one we'd genuinely reach for ourselves while building a real site. If it wouldn't earn a place in our own workflow, it doesn't ship. Have a template, icon set or tutorial you'd like to see? Start with the templates or open the tools.