General Design Links
- a graphic design magazine that’s currently offering two interesting articles as PDFs for free to non-subscribers:
- “How to Find the Perfect Color” – deriving a colour palette from a photograph
- “Design Easy Cover Patterns” – using repeating shapes
- (via Seth’s Blog)
- an “interactive visual font search system” for when you don’t know what kind of font you’re looking for
- (via xBlog)
Typographica - Our Favorite Fonts of 2004
- it doesn’t appear that any of these fonts are free, but they are nice to look at
- (via Mezzoblue)
- online tool to make your own bitmapped TrueType font
- (spotted at Mezzoblue and LifeHacker)
- a weblog with pointers to free fonts online
- (via LifeHacker, as are the remaining links in this post)
- references and resources for online and print designers
- choose a colour by RGB or hex value, and get a palette of complementary colours
- type in the URL of a webpage you like, and get a list of hex codes for the colours used on the page
- pick two different colours and get a list of up to ten different intermediary colours
Lifehacker - Free stock photography
- a list of links to websites offering free stock photography
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