A while back, Temani tacked a repeating grid of hexagon shapes. Well, he's updated it with modern CSS features that result in fewer magic numbers. And it's impressive!

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Modern CSS features like corner-shape, sibling-index(), and unit division enable creating responsive hexagon grids with less code and fewer magic numbers than older techniques. The approach uses flexbox with calculated margins to position hexagons in a responsive grid pattern without media queries or JavaScript. The same mathematical foundation can be adapted to create grids of other shapes like rhombuses, octagons, and circles by adjusting border-radius, aspect-ratio, and margin properties.

Responsive Hexagon Grid Using Modern CSS