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Photo editor online - Pixlr.com edit image. Tuts+ Network. Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials. 7 Key Principles That Make A Web Design Look Good. Oct 15 2009 By Juul Coolen Everyone and their grandfather (and dog) seems to have a website these days. The Web is getting more crowded by the day, with literally dozens of websites being added as you read this article. It is becoming harder and harder to get noticed among the masses. “Fortunately” for us designers, not everyone seems to understand what makes or breaks a Web design. So what makes something pretty? These elements are the 7 key principles that make a Web design look good: Balance,Grid,Color,Graphics,Typography,White space,Connection. 1.

Balance is all about ensuring that your design does not tip to one side or the other. Example Look at the dog in the header graphic of Khoi Vinh’s Subtraction website below. This is what we call asymmetrical balance, and this is what balance is about. Here below is another example of symmetrical balance, this one by The First Twenty. You will find that every design you think looks good has a well-constructed balance underlying it. 2. 3. 4. 5. Ellen Lupton: Thinking w/Type. 21 Most Used Fonts By Professional Designers | Fonts. The fonts are one of the most important parts of every web Project. All though there have been many other selective collection font posts around which most of the time leads to big confusions Like which typefaces is really useful for your project or how to choose your font from the list of hundred fonts. We spent last whole week reviewing dozens of font reservoirs and typography articles about fonts usability and popularity.

Finally we end up with a list of 21 Most Used Fonts by Professional Designers in Web Designing World. All the screenshots made in such a way that there is no point of confusion. The basic purpose behind this post is to show popular font types. there is no direct download link available for any font. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Other References. Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses. Thinking for a Living. Baseline - a designer framework by ProjetUrbain.com. “Real” baseline grid on the web When I first started to design Baseline, I wanted to base the grid on the work of Josef Müller-Brockmann, unfortunately some missing CSS attributes — like type leading — kept me from implementing a true grid based approach.

I then decided to another look at the basic grid used in print: the baseline grid. Most frameworks and examples of baseline grids simply put the type on a regular line-height, but one problem with this approach is that the text rarely lines up correctly between columns and headlines — H1 through H6. Baseline try to align to the font metric to correctly line up headlines, paragraphs, form labels and any other major elements on the page baseline, creating a harmonious layout. How to use Baseline Baseline can be used in many different ways. Download The .zip file includes the full set of CSS files both for development and deployment, a Photoshop base document and a full set of HTML templates and examples.

Going from 0.2 to 0.5 Version 0.5.1. Mandatory Reads - Graphicology. Astheria. Maxvoltar. Webdesign Trend Hunting – 27 Bright Websites Using Popping Colors. After The Messy Desk, The Fluid Grid Layout, and The Circle As A Design Fetish, our Trend Hunting series continues with a big roundup of cool websites designed with bright colors in mind. And in the eye :] Please leave your comments below, suggest other websites, and tell us what do you think about this trend. Muller 50.000 Beds The Other Design Agency Carsonified Change Graham Greg White Snog Home de Caramel Ryan Keiser Finely Sliced Bjango iPhone Apps Helveticons Rokkan Instrument Sketchen Ethno Port Bombay Saphire I am Lin Sofamade Wilson Miner Organic Grid Bjorn Frieze Blue Vertigo B Cube Spf Design More Want more?

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