Link List

Craig Abbott explains how to use math­e­mat­i­cal mod­u­lar scales to style HTML head­ings acces­si­bly and con­sis­tent­ly. The method mul­ti­plies a base font size by a fixed ratio to cre­ate visu­al­ly dis­tinct head­ing lev­els with­out rely­ing on prob­lem­at­ic tech­niques like ital­ics or col­or alone, ensur­ing read­abil­i­ty for peo­ple with dyslex­ia and col­or vision defi­cien­cies.

Font­Base is a free, cross-plat­form font man­ag­er for design­ers offer­ing pro­fes­sion­al fea­tures like col­lec­tions, Open­Type sup­port, Google Fonts inte­gra­tion, and a beau­ti­ful inter­face. It enables font acti­va­tion with­out instal­la­tion, includes a CSS play­ground for web projects, and pro­vides fast per­for­mance with auto­mat­ic updates across Mac, Win­dows, and Lin­ux.

The tool that answers the ques­tion ​“what can my font do?”

A mod­ern, brows­er-based font edi­tor for cre­at­ing and edit­ing fonts.

After­glow runs clas­sic After Dark screen saver mod­ules — Fly­ing Toast­ers, Fish!, Star­ry Sky­line, and more — native­ly on macOS, with no ROMs required.

The Bézi­er Game is an inter­ac­tive edu­ca­tion­al game designed to teach users how to mas­ter the pen tool used in graph­ic design soft­ware. Play­ers com­plete stages by cre­at­ing Bézi­er curves with the min­i­mum num­ber of nodes, earn­ing points for effi­cient solu­tions. The game includes tuto­ri­als, key­board short­cuts, and redi­rects touch device users to an alter­na­tive ver­sion called The Boolean Game.

The Spencer­ian script isn’t the most main­stream pen­man­ship style, but this sys­tem of writ­ing is more com­mon­place than you prob­a­bly real­ize! Any­one who’s ever

Spencer­ian script join­ing angles.

Design engi­neer at the inter­sec­tion of code, design and art. My own lit­tle space on the inter­net: side projects, writ­ing, pho­tog­ra­phy and post­cards.

A sim­ple site to pub­lish find­ings while cook­ing, by Josh Nes­bitt. Recipes use a tab­u­lar recipe lay­outs.

Play­write Deutsch­land Schu­laus­gangschrift Guides is a sin­gle-weight font designed to har­mo­nize seam­less­ly with its com­pan­ion.

Pre­mi­um ​‘Ultra’ Hand­writ­ing Font Ser­vice cre­ates ultra-real­is­tic True­Type hand­writ­ing fonts from your nat­ur­al writ­ing using Scrip­tal­iz­er soft­ware with up to 318 char­ac­ter vari­a­tions. Avail­able as cus­tom fonts or pre-made options, com­pat­i­ble with inkjet, laser print­ers, and pen plot­ters, with com­mer­cial licens­ing includ­ed in a sin­gle pay­ment. Sup­plied as True­Type fonts for Windows/​Mac or SVG fonts for pen plot­ters, requir­ing only the free Scrip­tal­iz­er web appli­ca­tion.

Sin­gle line hand­writ­ing font resources and soft­ware

Quan­tum Enter­pris­es — The home of the Jig­saw Doc­tor, pen plot­ter hand­writ­ing fonts, a hand­writ­ing font gen­er­a­tor, round tuits and much more.

About Sin­gle line (open con­tour) True­Type hand­writ­ing fonts for use with the NextDraw and Axidraw pen-plot­ters and oth­er CAD draw­ing and engrav­ing equip­ment.

Stroke Font Stu­dio is a brows­er-based edi­tor for cre­at­ing and mod­i­fy­ing sin­gle-line SVG fonts designed for pen plot­ters, CNC routers, and engravers. It includes bun­dled font col­lec­tions, tools for edit­ing glyphs with pan-zoom can­vas, kern­ing adjust­ment, and the abil­i­ty to trace bitmap or TTF/OTF fonts. Exports stan­dard SVG 1.1 font files and keeps all work local to your device.

Coral Pix­els is a col­or font inspired by sub­pix­el ren­der­ing tech­niques. It enhances the retro pix­el font style com­mon­ly seen in games and dig­i­tal art by adding col­or, cre­at­ing a more vivid dig­i­tal aes­thet­ic.

A huge ani­ma­tion scene with many ref­er­ences to memes, games, films, series, ani­mé, music groups

Col­lect­ed match­box labels from a col­lec­tion of 5,000 in the design archive.

A look at the CSS line height unit and how it works.

A GitHub repos­i­to­ry con­tain­ing auto-gen­er­at­ed DESIGN​.md guides cre­at­ed from real web­site ref­er­ences using the Fudge tool. The project focus­es on design sys­tems, design tokens, and design doc­u­men­ta­tion for web projects. It includes assets, scripts, and work­flows to help design­ers and devel­op­ers stan­dard­ize design prac­tices.

Gor­tonDig­i­tal is a dig­i­tal revival of the Gor­ton type­face, a 20^th-cen­tu­ry inter­war font orig­i­nal­ly used by the George Gor­ton Machine Com­pa­ny for engrav­ing machines. The repos­i­to­ry con­tains tem­plate splines and tools to gen­er­ate mul­ti­ple font weights (light, nor­mal, medi­um, bold) using Font­Forge’s stroke expan­sion. Free for non-com­mer­cial use; com­mer­cial licens­ing requires a dona­tion to a US-based edu­ca­tion­al non-prof­it.

A crit­i­cal arti­cle attack­ing Adobe as an exploita­tive, monop­o­lis­tic soft­ware com­pa­ny that forces users into expen­sive sub­scrip­tions while deliv­er­ing poor­ly opti­mized prod­ucts with bloat­ed lega­cy code. The author argues that Adobe’s dom­i­nance in cre­ative indus­tries makes their soft­ware inescapable for pro­fes­sion­als despite wide­spread frus­tra­tion with their per­for­mance and design.

My take on styling the ele­ment for an easy to colour and slight­ly more real­is­tic look­ing high­light­ing option. Uses an SVG fil­ter for the rough e…

Image Col­ors is a Craft CMS plu­g­in that auto­mat­i­cal­ly extracts dom­i­nant col­or palettes from images across six regions, offer­ing weight­ed col­ors, focal point aware­ness, and mul­ti­ple access meth­ods includ­ing a field type, Twig API, and GraphQL sup­port. Fea­tures include auto­mat­ic extrac­tion on upload, asset index swatch­es, and a con­sole com­mand for bulk pro­cess­ing. Free to use and com­pat­i­ble with Craft 5.

Stitch is an AI-pow­ered design tool that helps users cre­ate visu­als and graph­ics. It lever­ages arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to stream­line the design process.

Explains the McCol­lough Effect, a visu­al illu­sion where col­ored pat­terns induce illu­so­ry col­ors on B&W images. It’s a long-last­ing, con­tin­gent after­ef­fect.

An Open Graph image gallery with many exam­ples for inspi­ra­tion.

A plu­g­in for the Glyphs font edi­tor that enhances the Pen­cil tool with three fea­tures: draw­ing sim­pli­fied paths, redraw­ing exist­ing paths, and draw­ing closed paths. — michaelrafailyk/​PencilModifier

I stopped design­ing in Fig­ma and start­ed build­ing direct­ly in AI cod­ing uutools, shap­ing real prod­ucts in real time instead of hand­ing off mock­ups and wait­ing for inter­pre­ta­tion.