A Crash Course in Typography: Principles for Combining Typefaces - Noupe Design Blog
Apr 11 2011 When combining typefaces, there are a couple of important principles you’ll need to keep in mind, namely contrast and mood. Effectively combining typefaces is a skill best learned through practice, and trial-and-error.
Responsive CSS Frameworks and Boilerplates Explained
CSS frameworks have been around for years now, but the arrival of responsive design practices has rendered many of our old favorites useless. Fortunately, lots of really talented developers have jumped in to fill the gap with the next generation of CSS frameworks and boilerplates. There’s already a ton of these things floating around. Everyone has a list, but no one really walks you through how each framework and boilerplate differs from the next so that you can make an informed decision. That’s our goal today. Follow along as we take a look at what makes each of these 22 responsive CSS frameworks and boilerplates unique.
17 Great Resources – Color Inspiration For Web Design
One of my favorite parts when creating a new design is the process of choosing a color scheme. There are times when the colors just fall into place after I have my main color, or when using a photo the colors just flow around it. But sometimes you need a little help. Whether your looking for a color scheme to base your design on or you need a little help picking out complimentary colors the generators, articles, color wheels and more below will assist and inspire your color creativity. Color Generators / Wheels <img src=" alt='colourlovers' />colourlovers is one of my favorite websites to visit.
10+ Resources For Free Professional Wordpress Themes
The following list features some of the best WordPress designers, with free portfolio, magazine and minimalist themes, amongst many others, available for download. Woo Themes Woo Themes have some of the best premium themes out there, and every now and then they generously release a theme for free. One of their best free themes of all times is Irresistible, which is perfect for those of you looking for a life-streaming WordPress theme. Their other free themes include magazine themes, and straightforward minimalist blogs. Graph Paper Press
Best of Black and White Graphic Design Layouts
Best of Black and White Graphic Design Layouts I don’t think that I have ever had such a hard time researching a topic. Believe it or not, it is very hard to find any half decent black and white designs online. I have listed a couple of dozen black and white designs. Please send in designs that you like as well.
Developing Your Own CSS Framework
Quite a few CSS frameworks have been around for a while, but most web developers avoid using them. Instead most veteran developers prefer to create their own CSS framework, which provide benefits of a personalized solution and minimizes negative aspects of depending on a third party solution. Although CSS frameworks are meant to enable rapid web development; developing your own comprehensive CSS framework may require significant amount of time and effort.
70 Typographic, Clean And Minimalist Color Scheme Web Designs
Hello there! It’s time for little inspiration and this time I wanted to showcase something different. You may know that very popular designer slogan – “More is Less”, and yes it’s often so true – unexperienced people tend to overcrowd, use too much colors in their designs.
Stunning Collection of Black and White Logo Design
Top Home » Gallery • Inspiration • Logo Design » Stunning Collection of Black and White Logo Design A logo is an emblem or the visual representation of the business. Although a logo is a small graphical element but without doubt is of great importance. Simple logo designs are always proved to be the most effective and powerful whether in terms of color selection or concept. Here is an exclusive showcase of over 40 most innovative black and white logos designed by Province Design Studio.
CSS3 Patterns
Many of you have probably seen my CSS3 patterns gallery. It became very popular throughout the year and it showed many web developers how powerful CSS3 gradients really are. But how many really understand how these patterns are created? The biggest benefit of CSS-generated backgrounds is that they can be modified directly within the style sheet. This benefit is void if we are just copying and pasting CSS code we don’t understand. We may as well use a data URI instead.
Excellent HTML Newsletter Templates – Best Of
A well designed newsletter/email template can be the difference between success an failure. Whether its to update customers about a product, or to share information, having a well designed template can be a great starting point to guide your readers and give them a clear coherent flow when they read your email. This is crucial, considering how important the first impression is.
25 Most Attractive Black & White Websites
What do you think about black and white websites? Simple, clean or outdated? Anyway, they have sprung up with a growing number.
7 Great CSS Text Effects
Time for a bit of fun with CSS!The following examples are all created using live text and the CSS text-shadow property. Apart from the Letterpress effect, all of the following examples make use of multiple shadows, and as such will only work on the following browsers. Firefox 3.1+ (Mac/Win/Lin)Safari 4+ (Mac/Win)Chrome (Mac/Win)Opera 9.5+ (Mac/Win/Lin) Unfortunately Internet Explorer (6/7/8) has no support for the text-shadow property.
