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Browse through Dribbble or Behance, and you’ll find designers using a simple technique to add texture to an image: noise. Adding noise makes otherwise solid...
Love this grainy gradient effect. I never have figured out how to do it in Photoshop but maybe CSS and SVGs are more my speed.
A farewell to The Quick Brown Fox....
I’m finishing up a font with some extremely finicky kerning so this list of words with awkward letter combinations from the Hoefler&Co. blog is fantastic. There’s even a Github repo with PDFs.
Fontjoy helps designers choose the best font combinations. Mix and match different fonts for the perfect pairing....
This a great tool for testing out font pairings and exploring new fonts. Plus, the machine learning details are super interesting.
Make organic SVG shapes for your next design. Modify the complexity, contrast, and color, to generate unique SVG blobs every time....
This is a very cool tool for generating organic looking SVG shapes and I wish I’d known about it before making the blobs for this site from scratch like a sucker.
Have you ever wondered if your design should just be on a page instead of in a modal overlay? Here’s a framework to help you decide....
I’ve implemented so many modals over the years but never really stopped to think about why. This when to use a modal flowchart is pretty interesting.
A few months ago, I started trying to do a little design cleanup on this site and it prompted me to finally do something I probably should’ve done way back at the beginning: create a brand board. Even though it’s a little late in the game, it still turned out to be a pretty useful task. It helped weed out some patterns and colors that didn’t quite mesh with the rest of the site. It inspired some new approaches. I’ve also started doing a stripped down version for creating promo assets for my fonts.
I started out with the free template from Nesha Woolery’s great post How to create a brand board but made some changes based on my own quirks and preferences. I found it easier to use Smart Objects for patterns, wanted a more widely available font for labels, didn’t need an extra section for alternative logos, etc. Since that original template was so useful as a starting point for me, I thought I should pay it forward and offer up my version for download.
The file is available as a PSD created with Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 and you can take a look at the layout below.
These free Stipple Shading Photoshop Brushes are an awesome freebie from Spoon Graphics. I really love this effect but it’s always seemed so hard to do.
Creative Market is offering another great weekly freebie. Texture Card Builder by Uniyok is an awesome vector brush set that you can download now (week of 05/20/19).