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Futuristic and Industrial: The Best Futuristic Fonts
8.1.2020
What does it take to create a design with a futuristic vibe? I believe each of you has its pack of tricks under your sleeves and most importantly, a...
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Building a Physics-based 3D Menu with Cannon.js and Three.js
10.12.2019
Learn the basics of doing physics in WebGL by building a 3D menu with Cannon.js and Three.js as renderer.
Building a Physics-based 3D Menu with Cannon.js and Three.js was written by Arno Di Nunzio and published on Codrops
The New Klim Type Website is Impossibly Lovely
4.12.2019
I’ve spent the last hour hunched over the new Klim Type foundry website with my arms outstretched as if it was a fire in a very dark cave. Klim Type makes and sells wondrous fonts — like Tiempos, and National 2 or Pitch — and this fresh redesign now showcases them in all their glory. Here’s...
Simplified Fluid Typography
29.11.2019
Fluid typography is the idea that font-size (and perhaps other attributes of type, like line-height) change depending on the screen size (or perhaps container queries if we had them).
The core trickery comes from viewport units. You can literally set type in viewport units (e.g. font-size: 4vw)...
Variations on Theme: Reinventing Type on the Web
20.11.2019
If anyone knows anything about me, it’s usually one of two things: that I have two outrageously fluffy dogs, or that I like fonts and typography. Like, really really like them. So while I am super excited about how well Tristan is doing with his hydrotherapy —we’re walking 50% further than he...
Electro 80s – Best Neon Fonts, Icons, Effects & Mockups
15.11.2019
When it comes to creating a retro atmosphere in design, the first thing that comes to mind is stuff from the vibrant, disco-obsessed 80s. Mario’s era is in fashion...
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Create Text in Three.js with Three-bmfont-text
10.10.2019
A short tutorial on how to create animated text in Three.js with three-bmfont-text and give it a nice look using shaders.
Create Text in Three.js with Three-bmfont-text was written by Mario Carrillo and published on Codrops
Weekly Platform News: Text Spacing Bookmarklet, Top-Level Await, New AMP Loading Indicator
5.9.2019
In this week's roundup, a handy bookmarklet for inspecting typography, using await to tinker with how JavaScript modules import one another, plus Facebook's in-app browser is only posing as one. Let's get into the news!
Check if your content breaks after increasing text spacing
Dylan Barrell from...
Styling Links with Real Underlines
30.8.2019
Before we come to how to style underlines, we should answer the question: should we underline?
In graphic design, underlines are generally seen as unsophisticated. There are nicer ways to draw emphasis, to establish hierarchy, and to demarcate titles.
That’s clear in this advice from Butterick’s...
Weekly Platform News: CSS font-style: oblique, webhin browser extension, CSS Modules V1
9.8.2019
In this week's roundup, variable fonts get oblique, a new browser extension for linting, and the very first version of CSS Modules.
Use font-style: oblique on variable fonts
Some popular variable fonts have a 'wght' (weight) axis for displaying text at different font weights and a 'slnt' (slant)...
The Guardian digital design system
29.7.2019
Here’s a fascinating look at The Guardian’s design system with a step-by-step breakdown of what's gone into it and what options are available to designers and developers. It shows us how the team treats colors, typography, layouts, and visual cues like rules and borders.
I’ve been struggling...
Telling the Story of Graphic Design
26.7.2019
Let me just frame this for you: we're going to take a piece of production UI from a Sketch file, break it down into pieces of information and then build it up into a story we tell our friends. Our friends might be hearing, or seeing, or touching the story so we are going to interpret and translate...
Juicy and Charismatic: The 11 Best Free Retro Fonts
16.7.2019
Let’s be honest, Retro is the new black today. We are obsessed with everything old. Nostalgia is an official trend. It rules the roost here, there and pretty much...
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Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans
25.6.2019
Hilarious idea by Zach Leatherman. To test if a comment is "snarky" or not, there is an npm package up to the task.
On this site, we generally just delete snarky comments, but I still run a WordPress plugin that allows me to "feature" or "bury" comments. It's old but it still works fine in...
15 Best Number Fonts for Displaying Numbers
20.6.2019
Website typography has multiple different aspects; displaying numbers on the screen is among the most important ones. There are many use cases when you might want to focus on...
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Free Vector and PhotoShop Text Effects for a Quick Makeup
1.6.2019
Typography is one of the most powerful tools in the designer’s arsenal. It’s not only an instrument to display text and convey a message, but it’s also a mean...
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A Practical Use Case for Vue Render Functions: Building a Design System Typography Grid
30.5.2019
This post covers how I built a typography grid for a design system using Vue render functions. Here’s the demo and the code. I used render functions because they allow you to create HTML with a greater level of control than regular Vue templates, yet surprisingly I couldn’t find very much when...
Code as Documentation: New Strategies with CSS Grid
24.5.2019
I work for Supercool, a fast-moving design agency that makes custom built sites for arts clients, powered by the off-the-shelf system, Craft CMS; it's high-spec graphic design with relatively demanding typography and art direction. Over the past few months we’ve been moving to CSS grid. We’re...
Collective #518
23.5.2019
Take Back Your Web * Animation Handbook * Accessible Icon Buttons * The State of Fluid Web Typography
Collective #518 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
The Serif Tax
9.4.2019
Fonts are vector. Vector art with more points makes for larger files than vector art with fewer points. Custom fonts are downloaded. So, fonts with less points in their vector art are smaller. That's the theory anyway. Shall we see if there is any merit to it?
Open Sans (top) and Garamond...