Chris Bongers

Posted on Mar 25, 2022 • Edited on Mar 30, 2022 • Originally published at daily-dev-tips.com

CSS Logos: Netflix logo

#css

For today's article, we'll recreate the iconic Netflix logo. While working on this logo, I found it was quite an easy one.

Super fun to try yourself 💖

Let's take a look at the logo.

Analysing the logo

The logo is built up by three sticks of the same size; however, the middle one casts a shadow and is skewed.

Then at the bottom, it's good to note the logo is a bit rounded off.

My idea is to leverage borders for the two side pillars and pseudo-elements to make the skew stick + the rounded bottom section.

Recreating the Netflix logo in CSS

Let's create a simple box and set the borders left and right to get started.

.netflix {
  height: 15rem;
  width: 3rem;
  border-left: 3rem solid #e50914;
  border-right: 3rem solid #e50914;
  position: relative;
}

It's important to note the 3rem will be the size for each stick.

So far, we get the following styled element.

Let's add a before element to add the third skew line.
The main idea is that this can be simply the width and height of the box.

&:before {
  display: block;
  content: '';
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  background: #e50914;
  transform: skewX(21.5deg);
  box-shadow: 0 0 30px black;
}

We can see we skew the element to fit the edges and add a bit of box-shadow to cast the shadow on the sticks below.

The last thing we need is the bottom rounded effect.
We'll leverage a round box that we offset from the bottom.

&:after {
  content: '';
  width: 15rem;
  height: 2rem;
  background: black;
  border-radius: 50%;
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  left: -200%;
  top: 98%;
}

Which result in the following CodePen.

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Top comments (24)

Renan Franca • Mar 25 '22

This series of CSS logos is amazing🤩
I enjoyed how you detail your approach to make decisions about which CSS options/property you will use 👏

Chris Bongers • Mar 26 '22

Nice, that was my goal so happy to hear it worked out ✊
Got a few more coming, and collecting inspiration for a new set.

Renan Franca • Mar 26 '22

You are welcome!

Got a few more coming, and collecting inspiration for a new set.

I am happy to hear that! Bring it on! 🤓

Lee • Mar 29 '22

is this a series? can we get them linked together so i can flip between cuz i’m lazy?

Chris Bongers • Mar 30 '22

I will link them together today 💖

Jackson Kasi • Mar 25 '22

Chris Bongers • Mar 26 '22

Glad you enjoyed it Jackson

Atharva Shirdhankar • Mar 25 '22

I have shared your articles on brand logo designing using CSS with my young brother and he is shocked by this amazing designs 🥳
Amazing designs Chris🎉