Plaiceholder

What it does

Transform your images into beautifully lightweight placeholders, with ease. Choose-your-own adventure, from pure CSS to SVG…

Beautiful image placeholders, without the hassle.

The plaiceholder project is feature complete and will now be kept in maintenance mode. If this project has been useful to you, please consider sponsoring my work (opens in a new tab) . "Plaiceholder" is a suite of server-side functions for creating low quality image placeholders (LQIP). Give each strategy a try to see what works best for your individualfrom plaiceholder.co

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  Plaiceholder, transform images into pure CSS blurred placeholders2020 · plaiceholder.co · ▲24

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