Thursday, November 30, 2017

๐Ÿ“ Issue #305: Typography in VR, Essential Design Trends, Free Duospace Font, The Science Behind Simple, and more…

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NEWSLETTER ISSUE #305 NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Give The Gift Of Comfort

With the holidays fast approaching, we see all the seasonal designs around us and we've discovered the perfect, most comfortable holiday designer socks for you. Bombas socks are engineered with Stay-Up Technology, Sure-Fit Cuffs, and none of those weird seams along your toes. These well designed socks will keep you comfortable mile after mile. Get 20% off with code DEPOT - AD

3 Essential Design Trends, December 2017

This month's design trends are all based around inventive typography. Some sites have started leaving nothing but text above the fold, others use text as a mask for images or video, some have even returned to that old favorite of text in a white box. The essential trends this month has something to inspire everyone.

10 Rules for Fonts in VR

VR is coming, and sooner or later all UI designers will need to know the basics of designing for virtual reality. You can get yourself well ahead of the pack by learning the fundamentals of typography in VR. This extensive examination of the subject contains invaluable advice, from the minimum font size in VR, to positioning text.

Clippy: CSS Clip-Path Maker

Clippy is a sensational clip-path generator for SVG. The simple online tool features a series of shapes that you can use as the basis for your mask. Select one, and see it in the preview window, each corner is draggable allowing you to fully customize your shape. Finally the CSS can be copied and pasted into your own code.

Stop Building for Chrome

A row erupted this week over the way some big sites are coding. Both Airbnb and Groupon drew scorn for advising users experiencing problems to switch to Google Chrome. Web designers jumped on this 90s style approach. All modern browsers support most HTML5, let's design for the web, not a specific browser.

Free Duospace Font

Monospaced typefaces are perfect for applications, because each glyph, from i to m occupy the same space and can therefore be seen in columns. However, monospace can feel jarring when writing, so iaWriter have released an open source duospace font; monospaced, except for the w and m, which have an extra 50% width.

7 Things You Have to Know About Accessibility

Accessibility ensures that everyone can view your site, from those with serious visual impairments, to the millennial with bleary-eyed hangover vision. And it's not just about visual issues, accessibility affects everyone to a greater or lesser degree. This guide will walk you through ensuring your UI design is accessible to all.

The Art of Wu-Tang Clan

Bands, like any other commercial enterprise, need effective design to succeed. Creative Review talks to RZA and Mathematics of the Wu-Tang Clan about the visual side of their output, from the distinctive phoenix logo, to record covers, to art-focused projects, covering much of the design work that has driven their brand.

The Science Behind Simple

Simple, uncluttered design is more effective than muddled, busy design. As designers we instinctively know this to be true. This short post by Dominic Harkness explains exactly why simple is the most effective approach, so the next time you're arguing for minimalism in a meeting you can articulate your ideas using facts.

Net Neutrality as a Constitutional Right

The battle for net neutrality rages on and on, and the outcome will define the internet for generations. With this controversial issue still undecided Hackernoon proposes Net Neutrality as a constitutional right, enshrined in US law to protect freedom of speech and more. It's a thought-provoking argument.

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