Mobile UI and Material design animations & interactions. Made in the Yalantis mobile laboratory.

Design requires free, sometimes chaotic exploration. But design also means organisation and structure. Sketch can be good in both aspects, but moving from exploration to structured layouts with text styles and unified colors is hard. Either you start clean files from scratch, or you use what you have and try to tidy it up. The Style Inventory is meant to help you with that. It gives you an overview of all your used styles and helps you to merge styles of similar layers into one. This repositiory also contains a few other helpful plugins.

This is a small command-line program for OS X that moves files or folders to the trash.

Convert HTML to fastFrag JSON structure.

Star typeface designer Tobias Frere-Jones explains the challenges of using Helvetica Neue as an operating system font.

Typewolf helps designers choose the perfect font for their next design project. This site is an independent resource that features fonts from all type foundries.

100 Best Fonts of all Time, Ranking of best, most popular, best selling typefaces. Helvetica™ · Garamond™ · Frutiger™ · Bodoni™ · Futura™ · Times™ · Akzidenz Grotesk™ · Officina™ · Gill Sans ™ · Univers™ · Optima™ …

You could build a Photoshop document that contained many different icons, with one Layer Comp set up to display each icon. You could then use that Photoshop document as a Linked Smart Object in other documents and be able to choose a specific icon by selecting the corresponding Layer Comp. Think of it as a single Smart Object that acts as a library of elements.

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The wide availability of web fonts has enabled sites to become typographical wonderlands, at the cost of increased page size and longer load times. Performance-focused developers already optimize their images and CSS; it makes sense that we should also optimize web fonts.

The good news is that doing is fairly easy: by creating your own custom font or supplying your web font hosting service with a simple variable value, you can load only the glyphs that you need for the text you have on the page, rather than the entire range of characters, numbers and symbols in the font, reducing page load times.

I got fed up with marketing speak and buzzwords often used to create the impression that a display is much better than it actually is, so I wanted to help people decide what to get with the actual numbers at hand, through an easy to use web app. Also, it was kinda fun to make. :-)

In CSS media the difference between width and device-width can be a bit muddled, so lets expound on that a bit. device-width refers to the width of the device itself, in other words, the screen resolution of the device. Lets say your screen's resolution is 1440 x 900. This means the screen is 1440 pixels across, so it has a device-width of 1440px. Most mobile phones have a device-width of 480px or lower, including the popular iPhone 4 (with device-width: 320px), despite it technically having a 640 x 960 resolution. This is due to iPhone 4's retina display, which crams two device pixels into each CSS pixel on the screen. This is true for the Ipad 3 as well; its reported device-width is 768px just like its predecessors, even though its actual screen resolution is 1536px x 2048px. In general width is more versatile when it comes to creating responsive webpages, though device-width is useful when you wish to specifically target mobile devices (and not desktops with a small browser window for example), as rarely do desktops have screen resolutions below a certain number such as 320px x 480px.

The accelerometer embedded in our smart devices is typically used to align the screen depending on the orientation of the device, i.e. when switching between portrait and landscape modes. This capability provides great opportunities to create better user experiences because it offers an additional layout with a simple turn of a device, and without pressing any buttons.

Connects a text area or js code editor to an editor with GhostText server installed, all text changes will be send from the editor to the browser and vice versa.

Use Sublime Text to write in your browser. Everything you type in the editor will be instantly updated in the browser (and vice versa).

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A content strategy must achieve a harmonic balance between business goals, editorial mission, user expectations, design vision, the content production process, and technological capabilities.

Based upon web standards and best practices, WaSP InterACT is designed to prepare students to be a web professional. Adapt and reuse our resources. Contribute your own content and ideas.

The following schools offer a wide range of projects submitted by influential designers and educators from major design institutions around the world. They illustrate some of the many ways typography can be taught effectively. For additional information, visit the school’s Web address at the end of each project description or the School Directory.

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