Lea Verou, PhD ✓

@LeaVerou · Cambridge, MA / Athens, GR · joined 27 Feb 2009

Product, web standards, usability • @csswg Invited Expert • @w3ctag alum • CS/HCI PhD @MIT Also: 🐘 @leaverou@front-end.social • 🦋 @lea.verou.me

116 678Followers

1 301Following

39 888Posts total

66.1KViews on collected posts

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Lea Verou, PhD ✓@LeaVerou14 Sep

🎨 Ever wondered why oklch() is so odd? Why adjusting L doesn't produce good color ramps? And why TF is L=100% not white?!? I just wrote a thorough explanation of why this happens¹: https://t.co/1DdxuinI4O 👍 Upvote the GitHub issue if you want this fixed in browsers! ¹ https://

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Lea Verou, PhD ✓@LeaVerou13 Sep

Okay, that’s it. I’ve seen enough, and I’m officially smitten. 😍 Am I a fool? Probably. I’m fully aware of all the reasons this is a terrible idea. But I still want it anyway 😅 https://t.co/78L5g2yaAZ

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Lea Verou, PhD ✓@LeaVerou9 Sep

Another one for mesh gradients @nomsternom 4.1K views · 33 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Lea Verou, PhD ✓@LeaVerou7 Sep

@excalidraw time to add icons? 😀 3.9K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Lea Verou, PhD ✓@LeaVerou7 Sep

150+ hand-drawn icons that never sit still. Going to 1500. I'm giving away 20 Pro seats, free forever, to people who still make things for the joy of it! 😊 #buildinpublic Get oreo doodle icons👇 https://t.co/VCRqg8XIA2 https://t.co/ds6439j4Gz

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Lea Verou, PhD ✓@LeaVerou5 Aug

@LeaVerou I did it today when testing things. But I prefer system and use a hot key in Raycast to toggle dark mode 184 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Lea Verou, PhD ✓@LeaVerou4 Aug

@LeaVerou I always thought this should be a browser feature. Pretty the same as what you have in the inspector but for all users. 290 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Lea Verou, PhD ✓@LeaVerou4 Aug

@LeaVerou Honestly I do this on purpose sometimes, to lock in the choice so it won't flip on me later if I change my OS theme mid session. Explicit beats implicit even with zero visible change. 250 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Lea Verou, PhD ✓@LeaVerou4 Aug

📊 For websites that use a tri-state dark mode toggle (system, light, dark), have you EVER clicked on the override that matches your current system theme? E.g. going from System to Light on a light OS (which produces no visible change). Experimentation aside obvs. Poll at https:

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Lea Verou, PhD ✓@LeaVerou16 Oct 2025

Incredibly honored to have been awarded “Pathfinder for Standards” by @openjsf! 💛 Love the blurb too, made me blush! ☺️: “Lea is a rare person who has strong academic credentials, has helped create rigorous industry standards, but always focuses on the needs of real world users 12.3K views · 36 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views3 853this account6 454median for 100K–1M

Reach, %3.30%this account1.88%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.69%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	3 853	6 454	0.60×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.30%	1.88%	1.76×
Engagement rate	0.69%	1.14%	0.61×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

12.3K16 Oct

11.8K4 Aug

250

290

1845 Aug

25.9K7 Sep

3.9K

4.1K9 Sep

3.9K13 Sep

3.5K14 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.32%16 Oct

0.24%4 Aug

1.20%

0.69%

0.00%5 Aug

1.75%7 Sep

0.23%

0.83%9 Sep

0.42%13 Sep

1.28%14 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes54.0%544 in total

Reposts4.7%47 in total

Replies3.9%39 in total

Bookmarks37.4%377 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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