Clip-path: Diamond grid

Clip-path: Diamond grid.markdown

Clip-path: Diamond grid

This demo uses clipping paths to create a diamond grid.

A Pen by Karen Menezes on CodePen.

License.

index.html

		<div class="img-clip-block">
  			<div class="img-clip-row">
				    <div class="img-clip-wrap">
				    </div>
			  </div>

  			<div class="img-clip-row">
				    <a href="https://stocksnap.io/photo/J633WD7BAR" class="img-clip-wrap">
					      <div class="overlay">
						        <div class="overlay-content">Portraits
                  </div>
					      </div>
				    </a>

				    <a href="https://stocksnap.io/photo/J633WD7BAR" class="img-clip-wrap">
	    				  <div class="overlay">			
						        <div class="overlay-content">Poetry</div>
					      </div>
				    </a>
			  </div>

  			<div class="img-clip-row">
				    <a href="https://stocksnap.io/photo/J633WD7BAR" class="img-clip-wrap polygon-clip-rhombus">
				      	<div class="overlay">
						        <div class="overlay-content">Published</div>			
					      </div>
				    </a>
			  </div>
		</div> <!-- /img-clip-block -->

		<svg class="clip-svg">
			  <defs>
				    <clipPath id="clip-diamond-demo" clipPathUnits="objectBoundingBox">
					      <polygon points="0.5 0, 1 0.5, 0.5 1, 0 0.5" />
				    </clipPath>
			  </defs>	
		</svg>

style.css

body {
  font-size: 16px;
  line-height: 1.5;
  background: #fff;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

p {
  margin: 0 0 10px 0;
}

.clip-svg {
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
}

.img-clip-block {
  font-family: 'Cuprum', sans-serif;
  margin: 20px 0;
}

.img-clip-row {
  text-align: center;
}

.img-clip-row:first-of-type .img-clip-wrap {
  background-position: top;
}

.img-clip-row:nth-of-type(2) .img-clip-wrap:nth-of-type(odd) {
  background-position: left;
}

.img-clip-row:nth-of-type(2) .img-clip-wrap:nth-of-type(even) {
  background-position: right;
}

.img-clip-row:last-of-type .img-clip-wrap {
  background-position: bottom;
}

.img-clip-wrap {
  width: 300px; 
  height: 300px; 
  background-image: url("http://karenmenezes.com/shapes-polygon/clip-demo.jpg"); 
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  display: block;
  position: relative;
  -webkit-clip-path: polygon(50% 0%, 100% 50%, 50% 100%, 0% 50%);
  clip-path: polygon(50% 0%, 100% 50%, 50% 100%, 0% 50%);
  clip-path: url("#clip-diamond-demo");
}

.overlay {
  background: rgba(171, 147, 116, 0.8);
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  pointer-events: none;
  -webkit-transition: all 0.3s linear;
  transition: all 0.3s linear;
}

.overlay-content {
  color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4);
  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 180%;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  top: 50%;
  -ms-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
  -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
  transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
  text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}

.img-clip-wrap:hover .overlay {
  -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in;
  transition: all 0.4s ease-in;
  background: none;
}

.img-clip-img {
  display: block;
}

@media only screen and (min-width: 650px) {
  .img-clip-row {
    margin-top: -154px;
  }

  .img-clip-row:first-of-type {
    margin-top: auto;
  }

  .img-clip-wrap {
    display: inline-block;
  }
}