Category: Icons & Fonts

Design Inspiration and Freebies: How Dribbble Still Makes Sense

Awesome, great work! Aside from stereotypical self-adulations, Dribbble, one of the international design community’s favorite services, does have something to offer. Even if you had already written off Dribbble, read the following article. Dribbble, Temple of the Design-Enlightened There’s something to it....

Design Inspiration and Freebies: How Dribbble Still Makes Sense

Awesome, great work! Aside from stereotypical self-adulations, Dribbble, one of the international design community’s favorite services, does have something to offer. Even if you had already written off Dribbble, read the following article. Dribbble, Temple of the Design-Enlightened There’s something to it....

The Ugliest Fonts Are Used in the East of the USA

I’ll just say Comic Sans. If you have positive memories related to this font, please send me an email. You can imagine that I don’t expect a lot of mail on that. Of course, Comic Sans is only the fontificated ugliness by word usage, but it surely is not the only ugly font that the world makes its inhabitant...

Fontplop: Free Mac App Turns Web Fonts Into Desktop Fonts

Life can be this easy. Drag your TTF or OTF over to Fontplop, and get a web font bundle consisting of WOFF2, WOFF, TFF, SVG, and EOT in return. Fontplop is a small app for macOS, available for free on Github. You can download it as source text, but also as a DMG, ready to be installed. The functionality does not requir...

Free Pictograms: Beautiful Photo Books With the Travel Icons Set

In democratic countries, our expectations when it comes to Belarus aren’t all that high. Still, you should know about the Travel Icon Set from Studio Agente. Classic Icons on The Topic of Vacation The Travel Icon Set contains 60 pictograms. All symbols are available in the formats Adobe Illustrator (AI), Encapsul...

Feather Icons: 240 Modern Free Pictograms

Feather Icons is a set of 240 symbols that are suitable for almost any project, due to their very clean design. Another reason for that is that they’re being distributed for free, under the liberal MIT license. “Feather Icons” is a project of the Californian frontend developer Cole Bemis, who has alre...

Font Review Journal: Designers Review Fonts For Designers

The inception of a font is a tedious task that requires hundreds of hours spent on conceptual design and creation. On the web, we’ll find the font described in half a paragraph of text. The Font Review Journal wants to change that. Why Does the Font X Exist and What is it Used For? The new digital magazine “...

40 Excellent SVG Tools and Dozens of Icon Sets

On one hand, the web is becoming more and more visual, and even the shortest of texts are supported by images. On the other hand, we have to pay lots of attention to loading times, in order to prevent us from scaring off visitors, or Google. With the development of the responsive web, a third component was added: a gra...

Gilbert: Get the Rainbow Flag as a Free Font

Gilbert Baker is dead. The designer of the rainbow flag, a worldwide symbol of the LGBQT movement, is being posthumously honored with a font named after him. Gilbert Baker: Type with Pride Baker created the rainbow-colored flag in 1978, for the “Gay Freedom Day” in San Francisco. Each color represents a top...

CSS Icon: Pictograms in Pure CSS, Optionally Animated

The freely usable web app “CSS Icon” does not only deliver pictograms in pure CSS for free, but it also allows you to define animated transitions between any two of the package’s symbols. Adobe Designer With Love For Detail Wenting Zhang works as a UX designer for Adobe’s Typekit. Thus, it is no...