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Articles by Topic: Color

  • Extreme Colors

    Extreme Colors

    The beginning of the week is always tough. Coffee breaks are tedious. The aftermath of weekend is still evident. And conversations with your colleagues aren't that enlightening. Yet there is always a number of tasks you need to get done until the end of the day.... More... 25 Comments

  • Colors Reference Cards: Green

    Colors Reference Cards: Green

    Sometimes we just don’t know what color to use. Sometimes we have no idea which colors to combine in order to create a beautiful color palette which would attract the visitors of our web-sites. That’s why we’ve decided to create some kind of... More... 7 Comments

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  • Color Palettes: Real Estate

    Color Palettes: Real Estate

    What color palettes are used in the industry? What about your competitors? How to establish yourself as a new trend in the field which is dominanted by other companies? We take a look at different branches of modern life and analyze, which color patterns are... More... 2 Comments

  • Color Palettes: Health Care

    Color Palettes: Health Care

    We continue our series of articles about color trends - providing you with color palettes used in different branches of modern life. Today we take a closer look at health care-related sites. What colors are used? Which colors dominate? We deliver answers. It... More... 7 Comments

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  • Color Palettes: Insurance

    Color Palettes: Insurance

    Last week we’ve started a series of articles called “Color Palettes” - an overview of the dominating colors in modern web design. Observing the web-sites of traveling companies, we’ve found out that they tend to use Blue and Yellow -... More... Comments Off

  • Color Palettes: Traveling

    Color Palettes: Traveling

    OK. We’ve seen a lot of them. Over the last few months we observed literally hundreds of web-resources related to color and color theory. We’ve seen a lot of lists, catalogs and color resources: numerous color charts, color tools, color schemes... More... 6 Comments

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Ross Johnson discusses 8 forgotten fonts you may use in CSS. Among them are Palatino Linotype, Century Gothic, Copperplate and Gill Sans — apparently, these fonts are installed on a variety of operating systems.

Palatino

How creative can a table of contents be? Designobserver presents Thirty Tables of Contents. The collection includes excerpts from the books by Philip Larkin, Philip Roth, Paul Rand and Jan Tschichold.

Table of Contents

A set of 18 splendid and colorful looking 3D RSS-Icons. They are done with 3d Studio Max. JPG.

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In Font Clock 12 different fonts are printed within the mechanism of a clock, providing a random, mixed display of graphic language within a single time piece. Designed by Sebastian Wrong.

Font Clock

One pixel notched corners as used by Google Analytics. Instead of each option being boxed in a clickable rectangle, there is a 1px notch in each corner. It's not necessarily a curved corner, but it is a little softer than a normal box. Nice little trick.

Screenshot

Hartija is a CSS print framework which is an attempt to unite best CSS printing practices into one single CSS-file.

Rather than standard website templates, a free admin template is nearly impossible to find. This is an admin template which you can use for web applications like online-shops or CMS.

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Fully Personal Interface research is a survey where people are questioned about their interface preferences. Results: labels and icons should be placed on the left, horizontal menus are more popular than vertical ones.

Fully Personal Interface Research

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