Designmoo - A community for discovering and sharing free PSDs, vectors, textures, patterns, fonts, and more. Dragonfly Software - Stained Glass Software and Patterns. Freebies - Theme Designer. Tutorials and projects » 20 Free PowerPoint Templates that Don't Suck. Not satisfied? You can look for more free templates at these web sites (or if you’re game to design your own, here are some tips to keep in mind). If there are any sites that you like to use, don’t forget to post them in the comments section below! This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 at 2:11 am and is filed under Tutorials. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Blancer. Top 50 Free Icon Sets. Narrowing the Field: How To Bring Great Type Into Focus. « Back to Blog on Friday 3rd of May 2013 Not everyone finds choosing type easy.
In fact, it can be downright tough at times. Today, Robbie Manson (designer and all around good bloke) shares what works for him. In John Carpenter’s 1988 science-fiction-weirdo-horror flick They Live, Nada—a drifter played by the inimitable “Rowdy” Roddy Piper—finds an unassuming box of sunglasses in an abandoned church. When I began pursuing an interest in typography a number of years ago, it felt a little like I’d put Nada’s sunglasses on.
Suddenly the world looks very differentThey Live, © 1988 Universal Studios Finding the right typefaces for your projects can be tough, especially if you’re new to the field, but asking the right questions and opening your eyes to the type around you will help instill confidence in your choices. Decide what you’re looking for, and what you’re not Choosing type is an exercise in understanding your subject and interpreting its meaning in a visual form. How it feels. Clever PNG Optimization Techniques. Advertisement As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency.
It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the elder GIF image format. As a Photoshop (or any other image editor) user you might think that there is not that many options for PNG optimization, especially for truecolor PNG’s (PNG-24 in Photoshop), which doesn’t have any. Some of you may even think that this format is “unoptimizable”. Well, in this post we’ll try to debunk this myth. This post describes some techniques that may help you optimize your PNG-images. You may want to take a look at the following related articles: Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques1 The boring part Before we dive into image optimization techniques, we have to learn some technical details about the PNG format.
PNG was developed as an open-source replacement of the proprietary GIF format. More Meaningful Typography. We have all heard of the golden mean (also known as the golden ratio or golden section): the self-replicating page with a proportion of 1:1.618 that is said to be found in everything from the design of ancient Greek architecture to the growth patterns of plants.
Article Continues Below This and other meaningful ratios rooted in geometry, music, nature, and history can be expressed as modular scales and put to work on the web. Fig 1: A simple modular scale: 10@1:1.618 Fig 2: Our example page, designed using a modular scale. A modular scale is a sequence of numbers that relate to one another in a meaningful way. By using culturally relevant, historically pleasing ratios to create modular scales and basing the measurements in our compositions on values from those scales, we can achieve a visual harmony not found in layouts that use arbitrary, conventional, or easily divisible numbers.
Let’s start by looking at what modular scales are, and how they apply to web design. Conclusion#section5. Nice Web Type – How to use CSS @font-face. Code up top for quick reference, details down below—we’ll prepare typefaces for use on the web, go through @font-face CSS line-by-line, and get the experts’ take on browser support.
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