hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #458 (2024-04-25): Design Time

    Today’s Drop discusses the importance of thoughtful URL design, the exploration of avatar creation resources, and the introduction of Bento Grids as a resource for overcoming creative blocks in UX layout design. It highlights creative URL examples, avatar creation tools, and layout styles to enhance the design process.

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  • Drop #456 (2024-04-23): Typography Tuesday

    The wonk-ish edition of the Drop discusses the influential role of typography across diverse fields, exploring its impact on user experience, legal documents, and video games. It highlights typography’s power in enhancing readability, evoking emotions, and guiding user behavior. Additionally, it sheds light on the historical and developmental significance of game fonts. The insights offered…

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  • Drop #433 (2024-03-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop features the Typst Examples Book, paying tribute to renowned typographer Phil Baines, and introducing the new font Fixel. The Typst Examples Book enables easy and logical document creation with a focus on typography, while Baines’s legacy encompasses innovative designs, educational contributions, and his exploration of public lettering. Fixel, a new free font, offers…

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  • Drop #432 (2024-03-25): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    In today’s Daily Drop, we have the regular Monday grab bag of resources. We highlight Fedica, a platform for posting to Mastodon and Bluesky, the Navy’s Solar Eclipse Computer, and Vanilla Breeze, a tool for converting Tailwind-classed HTML tags to semantic CSS.

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  • Drop #430 (2024-03-21): Resources Unconstrained

    This edition of The Daily Drop highlights visual resources for creative projects. “Icônes” offers instant icon searching and filtering, while SVGRepo/svgfind provides quality open-license SVGs. Pexels hosts over 3.2 million free stock photos and videos for personal and commercial use. These resources can elevate your next creative endeavor.

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  • Drop #429 (2024-03-19): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop showcases the importance of typography in modern design, emphasizing meticulous cleaning of text, discussing the impact of typography on visual narratives, and introducing a unique connected script typeface called Dash. It highlights the significance of typography in effective communication and offers insights and resources for improving typographic endeavors.

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  • Drop #426 (2024-03-14): Design Time

    This issue is all about “design,” featuring unDraw’s open-source illustrations, Design Spells’ micro-interactions and animations, and Design System Surf’s comprehensive catalog of design systems. unDraw, created by Katerina Limpitsouni, provides a vast collection of customizable illustrations. Design Spells showcases design details to create moments of joy and wonder, while Design System Surf catalogs and organizes…

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