Design
The Ugliest Fonts Are Used in the East of the USA
I’ll just say Comic Sans. If you have positive memories related to this font, please send me an email. You can imagine that I don’t expect a lot of mail on that.
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Free: InVision Studio Could Kill Adobe XD, Sketch, and Framer
You love Sketch, just got the hang of Adobe XD, or pay for Framer already? InVision Studio could still win you over.
Design
Web Standards Documentation: Microsoft Joins the Mozilla Developer Network
Microsoft is busily exporting documents that deal with web standards. Target of the export is the MDN, the Mozilla Developer Network. What gives?
Design
Fontplop: Free Mac App Turns Web Fonts Into Desktop Fonts
Life can be this easy. Drag your TTF or OTF over to Fontplop, and get a web font bundle consisting of WOFF2, WOFF, TFF, SVG, and EOT in return.
Design
Bubbly Backgrounds: Moving Backgrounds for Your Website
It’s not modern if it doesn’t move. Of course, this also applies to your website’s background. Bubbly Backgrounds are at your service.
Design
Tool Tip: Moving Letters With Anime.js and CSS
Animated font effects are real eye-catchers. Used correctly, they can enhance your design. Moving Letters provides you with 16 fantastic visuals.
Business Online
Branding: The Perfect Logo Will Be Remembered
If a logo is truly clever is not decided by its pleasant design. It’s much more important that potential customers remember the logo.
Business Online
Tool Tip: Banimatic Creates Banners of All Sizes
The online banner generator Banimatic generates banners of any size fully automatically. The results can be edited, and even animated, if you want to.
Design
Roundups: The Newsletter Aggregator for Designers
Newsletters and other ways of compiling design resources are a dime a dozen. Roundups.co helps you keep an overview.
(Free) Services
Hixle: UI-Design Dissected
Design is not only about taste. Good design can be constructed, not just invented. The new service Hixle helps you do that.
Design
Creative Browsing With Vivaldi 1.12
The new project Vivaldi by the founder of Opera is gaining momentum. The feature set is slowly expanding towards creative workers.
Design
Adobe Xd is THE Prototyping Tool of 2017
Prototyping, creating a first usable model of a website or app, needs to be one thing above all else: fast. The fastest tool for this purpose is Adobe Xd.
Design
Mashup Template: 7 Free HTML/CSS Templates for Modern Websites
The small collection Mashup Template provides free templates as HTML/CSS, Sketch, and NPM. The design is very contemporary and definitely worth a look.
Boilerplates & Other Tools
Hologram: Free Mac App For a Smooth Start With WebVR
Freelancers that make their money off customer projects have little time for new technologies. With Hologram, you can get a sneak peek at WebVR, without losing entire monthly incomes in ...
Design
Font Review Journal: Designers Review Fonts For Designers
The inception of a font is a tedious task that requires hundreds of hours spent on conceptual design and creation. On the web, we’ll find the font described in half a paragraph of ...
Design
What About Ethics in Design?
Ethics and design should be looked at in context. Despite many claims to do so, this actually happens rarely.