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What’s new for designers, January 2013 The January edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, API tools, design tools, content creation resources, CSS and HTML frameworks, InDesign resources, web development tools, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments. And if you have an app or other resource you’d like to see included next month, tweet it to @cameron_chapman for consideration. Apiary.io Apiary.io is a REST API tool that makes it easy to create documentation and other tools for your users to use your API. Vagrant Need a lightweight, reproducible, portable development environment? Prose Prose is a web interface for managing your text-based GituHub repository content. Fake images please? Fake images please? Maskew Apaxy Elusive Icons Profound Grid Junior

13 Free Flat Icon Sets 378 shares 9 Free Icon Sets to Diversify your Library Every designer needs to be ready to go wherever their projects take them. Read More 939 shares 10 Best New Free Fonts We’ve been on the prowl for some new free fonts to share with you.

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