46 Sites To Get Inspired And Familiar With Hand Drawing Style As You may notice in Year 2008 hand-drawn designs became one of the most popular creative trends, people tend to add more personal look and creative feel to their sites trying to stand out between traditional web 2.0 style, boxy layout sites. Hand-drawn design not always necessarily mean sketched or hand-drawn, there can be also creative things we use everyday like pencils, erasers, stamps, notepapers, stickers – could continue so on, but I will show examples doing through detailed research – so You could understand what’s really represented with “Hand-drawn design”. And actually this trend is very natural since many designers still sketch up their sites on the paper at first and only then start to design actual site. I was really surprised when I read book “Nature Form Aesthetics” and noticed nature has already created everything, we just starting to realize it and through learning use those natural wonders for our own purposes. What did I want to tell with this?
Blog | Just another WordPress site Populaire Populaire is a hand-drawn font that mimics true handcrafted lettering. Counting 4 glyphs for each letter, the laborious kerning table ensures that the glyphs are really exchangeable. Yet, there’s a cool set of ornaments and a kind-of-magic OpenType feature. When the Populaire font is used in OpenType-savvy applications, its Contextual Alternates feature produce a striking random-like effect on glyphs distribution, achieved by cycling through alternates. Inspired by the electrifying posters from May 1968 by Atelier Populaire, this dynamic font is flexible enough to bring freshness and energy to a wide range of design applications. Used in the titles for the 2012 movie Life of Pi.
papercrop - Multi-column PDF files on 6 inch display. This program converts PDF documents such as articles, and academic papers into a PDF (or image sequence) so that it can be read on a small screen of e-book devices or smartphones. 1. Open a PDF file (by clicking Load button, or drag-and-drop) 2. Choose a preset by clicking the default preset button 3. 4. 2. 3. if results are not satisfactory, modify MIN gap, MIN text gap and margin parameters, and then click the update button. 4. 5. 2. 3. 4. 1. Open config.lua and edit "vector_PDF={600,800,..." appropriately. 2. Copy presets/one-column papers.lua to a new file (e.g. 3. Edit presets/default preset.lua. 4. The output file xxx_1.pdf is in the same folder as the input pdf (if you chose "cancel" on the file saving dialog). 5. Please install visual studio 2010 redistributable first. 6. Sorry, there is no official support for mac. - Following FAQs are irrelevant to the default "vector PDF" device. 7. Edit config.lua. 8. Edit config.lua. 9. Color pdf is usually larger. version 0.4, (Feb 1st, 2010).
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20 tools to help you create responsive web designs Building responsive design has become a huge trend in the web design world. There is a good reason for that: responsive websites are much more relevant than fixed web designs in a time where a lot of internet traffic comes from mobile devices. In this article we take a look at some of the most useful tool to help you with the creation of responsive designs. Sketching / wireframing tools First things first, responsive design need to be well-thought or you’ll get much more work than you would have otherwise. 1. A common problem you’ll run into when planning a responsive web design is to chose which devices and sizes you’ll design for. 2. Simple PDF templates to help you map out how layout sections will change in different resolutions. 3. Quickly get the CSS for creating your fluid grid website with this simple tool. 4. ProtoFluid simplifies the development of fluid layouts and adaptive CSS using Media Queries. Responsive design elements 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Templates and grids 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
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Best Responsive Website Templates Here is a collection of the best responsive web design templates of 2012. The templates include four major layout options which are desktop screen width, tablet screen, smartphone and cell phone. Responsive web design for Desktops, Tablets and Smart Phones Responsive Web Design (RWD) ensures that a web site is designed to use W3C CSS3 media queries with fluid grids, to adapt the layout to the viewing environment, and probably also flexible images. It uses feature detection (mostly on the client) to determine available device capabilities and adapts to it. Media Queries is a latest enhancement of the @media rules of CSS and the “media” attribute in HTML. With this type of design, users across a broad range of devices and browsers will have access to a single source of content, laid out so as to be easy to read and navigate with a minimum of resizing, panning and scrolling. Below are some awesome Responsive design templates : Gloria Hotel Website Template Poker Game Website Template
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