50 Beautifully Illustrated Graphics With Tips To Make You A Better Designer “Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.” Tate Linden Designers illustrate stories for their audience with the application of type, color, images and other graphic features. Like a writer when telling a story, there are specific tips and techniques that designers use to ensure the tone is correct and the messages are being brought to life. Often it’s just a matter of adjusting the size of our text, or darkening the background image image so that your message is easier to read. Here we offer 50 unique tips to help your visual story to be told with…. 01. By tightening the line height, the type is contained compositionally in a block. 02. Use scale and application of fonts to put emphasis on specific words. 03. There is a beat to which your copy is read, so make sure to break your lines of text up in a rhythmic pattern. 04. The combination of graphic elements in this graphic makes it high-impact. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
Free Icons: 50 Best Sites To Find Beautiful And Useful Free Icons Wouldn’t it be awesome if those icons were free? Well, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve scoured the interwebs to find 50 of the best sites for free, but beautiful, icons. Definitely bookmark this resource, because it’s sure to become your go-to fave when finding icons for website design, web applications, infographics, and desktops. But the uses don’t stop there. You can also use icons found on these sites to spice up your social media images, to illustrate the information on your slideshows, to enhance your business cards and stationery, to brighten up your menus, or to make your flyer pop. Did I mention that all of these icons are free to use? If a site does require attribution, you can add a link back in your footer or on your About Me page. Without further preamble, here’s a list of where to find icons for all your graphic design projects: Smashing Magazine is one of best resources for finding high quality, exclusive icons. Searching for icons is easy on Iconfinder. That’s right.
Free simple icons for your next project Follow @iconmonstr Support me ads via Carbon 3 months ago 4 months ago 5 months ago Made in Germany © 2014 iconmonstr Ask me a quick question @iconmonstr Imprint License Donate Open Iconic, a free and open icon set Displaying Open Iconic's SVGs are a snap. Just treat them like your typical image and away you go! Pro tip: Don't forget the alt attribute. SVG Sprite Open Iconic also comes in a SVG sprite which allows you to display all the icons in the set with a single request. Tip: To make your icons easily style able, we suggest adding a general class to the <svg> tag and a unique class name for each different icon in the <use> tag. <head> ... Sizing icons only needs basic CSS. Coloring icons is even easier. Font Icon fonts are a great fallback for SVG—and our font is pretty great. Head Body Bootstrap Font Use Bootstrap? Foundation Font Iconic also works for Foundation and functions just like Foundation's icon font.
60 Free Outline Icon Sets Perfect for Contemporary Designs With the ever-changing trends, it can be challenging to keep designs relevant and forward-thinking. No one wants their website or app to look like it’s stuck in the late 1990s (sorry, Comic Sans). Luckily, contemporary design trends in 2016 favor minimal and eye-pleasing simplicity in lieu of the flash graphics and bouncing 3D buttons of the past. A hugely important part of the contemporary “less-is-more” style is the use of icons. We love the simplicity of outline icons, so we’ve rounded up 60 sets of free outline icons (over 6,500 individual icons) to help you create your best designs yet. 01. This set of more than 100 education themed icons will make you feel smarter just by looking at it — double helixes, E=MC2 and more. 02. Linea is a whopper of a free set, including more than 730 icons in seven different categories such as music, ecommerce, arrows, weather and more. 03. Hawcons is another huge set including more than 500 icons. 04. 200 Sketched Social Icons 06. 198 UI Icons 07. 08.
Best Times To Post On Social Media (What 10 Studies Say) The best times to post on social media are when the people you want to see the content are on the network. That’s the easy answer. And not a useful answer. Until now. There are best practices for each social network, and the data from these 16 studies proves that posting at the best times will help you get more traffic, more engagement, and more followers. Want to use Click to Tweet on your blog? Schedule Your Social Media At The Best Times Without The Guesswork What if you didn’t have to remember all of this information while still getting the traffic, engagement, and followers your content deserves by scheduling your social media messages to send at the best times? You asked, and now it’s a possibility. …and you don’t even have to read this post to get smarter about when to share on all of your social networks. Let me repeat that: Save yourself from doing the homework of figuring out the best times to share social messages. About The 16 Social Media Studies… Let’s get to it. 1 p.m.3 p.m.9 a.m.
The Best Fonts & Colors in the Most Shareable Social Media Images If you’ve been looking to supercharge your social media strategy, you probably know a lot about the benefits of using images. But, how much do you know about actually creating scientifically shareable images? Turns out, there’s tons of actionable, research-backed advice on how to create social media images that get shared—the ideal colors, fonts, text, and more, all leveraging what we know about design, psychology and the Internet to get more shares and engagement. By the end of this article you’re going to be fully aware of how to make images that your readers can’t help but share. All backed by science. What Makes A Shareable Social Media Image? A shareable social media image is made up of five components: In the article you’re going to learn how you can take advantage of all of these elements, and put them together to create the best social images you possibly can. 1. Create Epic Content (Or Nobody Will Share It) Before I carry on, there’s one thing I do need to mention: Your images should:
Free Stock Photos: 73 Best Sites To Find Awesome Free Images Looking for the perfect stock photo for your blog or website? To help you find them, we’ve compiled a list of 74 terrific sources of high-quality, free photos. Want to use any of the photos in Canva? Before We Get Started: In order to organize the best resources, we’ll use these star ratings: ★★★★ – Near perfect ★★★☆ – Great resource ★★☆☆ – Not perfect, but still worth checking out ★☆☆☆ – Last resort, but better than clipart Alright, let’s go! 01. Wylio is an easy to use Creative Commons image finder. Searchable: Yes Membership Required: Yes Attribution Required: Sometimes Size of Gallery: 112,000,000 High Resolution: Some 123RF is a popular royalty free resource that offers over 35 million images, audio, videos, and vectors for a fee. Searchable: Yes Membership Required: Yes Attribution Required: Yes Size of Gallery: 31,165 High Resolution: No 03. 500px ★★★☆ Search for Creative Commons licensed photos on 500px, a popular photo community with impressive high quality images. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08.
60 Free Serif Fonts to Give Your Designs a Traditional Touch While Sans Serif fonts were mainly developed for computers and online work, Serif fonts are still the undisputed choice for printed work. You can easily recognize Serif fonts since they have a small line attached to each letter at the end of the stroke. Serif actually makes letters more recognizable and distinct — apart from the fact that they also make text easier to read. To help achieve that much needed traditional touch to your design, I have compiled together some of the best free serif fonts. To start using them right away, download and upload them directly to Canva. 01. First up on our list is Butler by Fabian De Smet. Download it at FabianDesmet. 02. Designed by Cyril Mikhailov, Fakedes is a rounded serif font with double lines which it make absolutely perfect for headings. Download it at Behance. 03. Inspired by classic Roman fonts, Forum was mainly developed for titles and headings, but I think it would look equally good for paragraphs as well. Download it at Google Web Fonts. 04.