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15 Tools To Help You Find The Perfect Color Palette

July 21, 2010 | Thoughts & Words By | 16 Comments

15 Tools To Help You Find The Perfect Color Palette

When designing a website or any other printed media a whole array of elements are vital to the overall look and feel of the project, if any of these aspects are incorrect or poorly thought out the project can suffer. Colour is one of these important parts of design. When choosing colour your initial reaction

15 Exceptional Handwritten Free Fonts

May 1, 2010 | Thoughts & Words By | 11 Comments

15 Exceptional Handwritten Free Fonts

Typography is possibly one of the most important design aspects of any project; using typography that doesn’t compliment your design can be incredibly detrimental to the design and effect usability and obviously the aesthetic properties of the project. There are thousands of fonts from many foundries available, as well as custom fonts that people wish

Inspiration – Where Do You Get Yours?

March 28, 2010 | Thoughts & Words By | 9 Comments

Inspiration – Where Do You Get Yours?

Gaining inspiration at times can be an incredibly difficult and frustrating task, like writers, designers suffer a form of "writers block" which can be a major design hurdle before you even start. You will see posts around the web "9999 Of The Best CSS Galleries" which OK they can be handy and serve a purpose,

How Do I Implement @font-face?

March 16, 2010 | Thoughts & Words By | 31 Comments

How Do I Implement @font-face?

At great risk of angering the web design overlords I need to get something off my chest, I can’t stand the term "Bulletproof." When someone decides they have come up with a "sure fire" solution they label it bulletproof, which in reality nothing ever is. @font -face is supported by the top browsers using various