Finishing Touches

Finishing Touches: Finishing Touches: Rounded Corners, Shadows and Gradients.

Updated November 10, 2026

1. Finishing Touches: Rounded Corners, Shadows and Gradients (Apprentice): border-radius rounds corners, a soft layered box-shadow lifts a card off the page, linear-gradient() and radial-gradient() blend colors in a background, and opacity fades a whole element, and each looks best used sparingly.