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Here is a useful collection of top 7 typography tools for you. With these tools, you can create your own fonts and then can very easily insert them into your designs by simply pasting some special code snippets or using the existing pieces of CSS code. Typography is the key component of any web design. It not only informs the visitors or potential customers but also holds a significant value in the success of any design.
With these tools, you can create the fonts as you want and then can easily embed them into your design. This has not been that much easier before. Without any further ado, here we present the complete list of 7 typography tools that would serve as the real time savers. Enjoy!
Typetester
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.
CSS Type Set
Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. It allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them. It is very useful for web developers who are looking for just the right font/style/color to use in their pages.
Font Tester
Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. dIt allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them. It is very useful for web developers who are looking for just the right font/style/color to use in their pages.
CSS Code generator for text
A very simple and useful tool for generating CSS styles.
Serif Font Identification Guide
Serif Font Identification Guide is a very clever and useful visual font identification tool.
Identifont
Identifont has become the largest independent directory of digital fonts on the Internet. It provides a range of features to help you locate fonts or find information about fonts:
CSS-Typoset Matrix
Matrix to calculate the font size and line spacing in em and px
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The use of negative space in logo design process is quite common these days. The logo designs that are designed by using negative space technique not only look visually appealing but also convey the message in a very creative manner. From the audience point of view, negative space logo designs are also very appealing as the hidden messages within them make them look quite interesting.
As we have already published a post about Negative Space Logo Designs and that was greatly appreciated by our readers. In this collection, you can find out 40 more negative space logo designs that are not only creative but visually alluring as well. The creativity used in designing these logos is simply above the par. Let’s have a closer look. Enjoy and stay creative!
Silk Skin
Hafiz Bacote
Russnast
Agni Extinguishers
Explorations
Hungry Call
Three Nuts General Contractors
Foooblr Logo Design
Lgnite
Water 10:42
Element of Sound
Gravity Custom Web
Paint the City
Arts Magazine
Learngolf Logo Design
Whitewashers
Cloak & Dagger
Tuzmadár – Firebird
Taurus Construction
Spartan Golf Club
North Construction
LAB
Gert van Duinen aka cresk
Rockit
Aranza
Williamson Pottery
Bufet
Forest Windows
Gecko
France Luminaires
Scoopads
Rimland
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PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor is a scripting language that is especially designed for the web development purpose. With the help of PHP, one can create dynamic web pages with loads of functionality. It is the general-purpose scripting language which is similar to other scripting language such as JavaScript, Ruby, Python etc. For the beginners, it may be somewhat difficult to learn but with the help of step by step tutorials, learning the scripting language also is a fun.
So, in this round up you will find some useful and detailed PHP tutorials that are especially designed from the beginners’ point of view. We hope that you will get good help from these tutorials. Enjoy!
Diving into PHP
Scanning Folders with PHP
Carbon Fiber Signup Form With PHP, jQuery and CSS3
How To Set Up A Local PHP/MySQL Development Sandbox For Windows And OS X
Introduction To PHP
Image Resizing Made Easy with PHP
How to Create a PHP/MySQL Powered Forum from Scratch
PHP Tutorial: Installation and The Basics
Resize and Crop Photos with PHP’s GD Library
PHP & MySQL File Download Counter
Quick Feedback Form With PHP And jQuery
Making A Cool Login system With PHP, MySQL & jQuery
How to Open Zip Files with PHP
Beginning PHP Part 2: Learn PHP Functions and Security
30 Best PHP Practices for Beginners
Build Your Own Captcha and Contact Form
PHP string to array
PHP Loops
PHP calculator
The Problem with PHP’s Prepared Statements
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Handwritten fonts add a natural feel to your design and make them look more appealing and enticing. This is the reason why majority of the designers prefer to use handwritten fonts in their designs. By using handwritten fonts, an ordinary design can also be converted into a truly stunning design – this is the power of typography.
In this round up, you will unearth 16 amazing and attractive handwritten fonts that are available for free download. These fonts can also be used as signature fonts. So, without any further ado, here we are presenting the complete list of 16 free handwritten fonts for you. Enjoy!
Scriptina
Estrya’s Handwriting
Penciledinh font demo
Easy Going the Font
Aerofoil
Grey Magus
Laurent HW
Brook 23 – Font
Loveable Scruff
Scribulous Scrawlin
Scratch Kit
Mskitokilla
Font Details
Rickman Script
Le Grand Saut
The Quiet Scream
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With the revised and improved edition of HTML, the authors as well as the web developers have been given some more flexibility and interoperability in order to create more interactive and creative websites. HTML5 has been proposed recently because the community believed that now it is the time to move forward and push the limitation of HTML further more in every direction.
In today’s collection, we are presenting 45 excellent examples of websites that are designed by using HTML5. With this collection, we tend to share with you variety of highly-creative, striking and most prominently inspirational designs that are coded in HTML5. Enjoy!
Hyper
Dilly Deli
Desiign
Veloster
Rally Interactive
Vivas Communication
Slavery Footprint
Hall88
Crypteks
Sony Tablet
Scandalous Dirt
Dataveyes
Jessica Caldwell
Cycle to Work Calculator
Trinity Webtech
We New
La Moulade
English Workshop
Print Discount
Web Expert
The Threepenny Editor
Cappen
Mm Studio
Elevate
PAPERPLANE
PYGMALION
MEETWEB
CENTVINGTCINQ
Touchtech
1minus1
CORPUS
Mind Epic
Nike Better World
Greater Dunnellon Historical Society
Cultural solutions uk
Youzee
An HTML5 Interactive Infographic featuring Dribbble
Green Campus Guide
255 Creative
Zeitgeistbot
South Mountain
G-FORCE
ZERO HOUR & CO
Time2project
Eyestylesllc
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Here is a collection of 25 truly amazing and wonderful Photoshop actions for you. Different types of Photoshop actions are high in demand because Photoshop actions make automating the common sequences easy for the designers and thereby increasing their efficiency and saving their precious time.
In this compilation, we have put together 25 awesome and absolutely free Photoshop actions for you that you can download for free. With these Photoshop actions, you can easily automate monotonous work and improve your work efficiency greatly. We hope that you will like this assortment. Feel free to share your opinion with us. Enjoy!
Toasted Photoshop Actions
Darker effect
Fairytale actions
Landscape action
Lith Print Action
Photoshop Action 25
005 Photoshop Action 16
Before and After
Photoshop actions soft red
UTW Dreamy Vintage Photoshop Action
Morning light FREE PS action
Photoshop sunny actions free
HDR Tools
Oscar’s Pitch Photoshop Action 1
Before and After (free photoshop action) / Autumn
BitFUUL Design Resources
Unwritten Action
Landscape Effect PS Action 0.2
My first actions set
Action 11
Old Black and White
Action 03
UTW La Chambre Photoshop Action
Photoshop Actions Pack 5
Free Photoshop action
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Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack (The World’s Biggest User Interface Elements Pack) were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack.
Winners of DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack
- Lucy Martin (Developer License)
- Matiss (Personal License)
- Regnareb (Personal License)
Impressionist is the world’s biggest user interface elements pack. It contains over 300 elements for web design that represent almost anything one can imagine. The elements are so far distributed on 5 pages. You can find here: Edit Boxes, Tabs, Buttons, Notification Windows, Menus, fast solutions for the Menu tabs, Windows, Backgrounds, Graphics, Sliders, Informational blocks and many others.
All the elements have been done in Photoshop using Shapes. This means that all the elements can be zoomed in or out without losing quality. They can be used for web design, mobile interfaces or illustrations. It all depends on your imagination.
Thanks to DesignModo for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.
If you want to conduct any contest at SmashingApps just contact us and send us all the details.
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ClZoom is a efficient, small and simple software which can be used to zoom on your desktop. It works somewhat like a magnifying glass, zooming in on the desired area of your desktop. It enables the user to zoom and enlarge the pixels of his or her desktop to a large extent. This software is extremely easy to use and in fact, usability is one of its main advantages. The fact that it is small and compact adds on to its already high feasibility. You can use this efficient and absolutely free software to magnify the pixels of your desktop to 16x times.
Features of this Free Desktop Zooming Software:
- It is a freeware which implies that you can download this software without having to spend a single penny.
- Its system requirements specifies Windows 7, Windows NT, Vista, Windows 2000, Windows 98 and Windows XP.
- This enterprising software supports multiple monitors.
- You can use the mouse wheel to increase or decrease the magnification according to your needs.
- This free software, namely, clZoom v0.01 can be used to achieve a range of magnifications, from 1x upto 16x.
- It has a timer that automatically refreshes the screen. What is more, you can also change the refresh rate according to your requirements from 5ms to as high as 10 seconds.
- It saves your preferences automatically.
- This very efficient and compact software saves the window positions automatically too.
- It is completely portable and can also be run from an USB stick.
- It is handy and very small in size.
- It requires absolutely no installation.
- If it is launched, executed and ended properly then it will not leave any entry in the registry or the file system. Or in other words it can be termed as a stealth program.
Interface:
You will find that the software consists of a single screen which shows the magnified region and which can be enlarged to full screen as well. When you right click on the screen a drop down menu appears which consists of the always on top, timer refresh, refresh rate options.
One can change the refresh rate settings from a lower limit of 5ms to an upper limit of 10 seconds. It also saves not only the size but also the position of your window. In order to specify the required area of magnification move your mouse pointer to the screen and left click on it. Now move your mouse pointer out of the window and drag it accordingly. You will find the region being magnified on the screen of the utility.
You can also check out free software to enlarge images without losing quality.
Download and Installation of this Free Desktop Zooming Software:
clZoom v0.01 comes In a handy zip package which can be downloaded from the official website. The package is also available on numerous other websites across the internet. Once you finish downloading the package you can extract it in any folder and click on the icon which says clZoom.exe.
You can also check out smart zoom to zoom in on a section of a window.
Final Verdict
If you need a small but smart utility for magnification purpose clZoom v0.01 is the right choice for you.
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- Virtual Desktop Software for free: Desktop Panorama
- Desktop Snow Software For Free: DesktopSnowOK
- Free Software to Adjust Screen Brightness: Desktop Lighter
Free Desktop Zooming Software: clZoom was originally published at I Love Free Software
