Exploring web design craft

Illustrator has a fair variety of default width profiles, however you may find yourself wanting to tweak them slightly. In my case I needed to tweak one, for creating some eyelashes. It’s not apparent how to do this. So it makes for a good post to explain for anyone having a similar problem.

A look at type that features prominent cuts or tapering into the type and a variety of recommendations you can use in your designs.

Aligning to a key object in Illustrator is one of the most useful alignment options. If you’ve ever been frustrated with aligning objects centrally, then everything nudges over a few pixels. This is where align to key object comes in, read on for how to.

It’s likely you know how to align things in Illustrator, but you can never remember how to space things equally, so you resort to the tedious way of spacing them individually. If you want to align objects with an equal space between them, this quick tip will show you how.

Understand the differences between the two, along with how and when to use them.

Circular is very much in the spotlight at the moment. It has a distinct look to it that so many huge companies are using. From Google to airbnb, it’s everywhere. If you’re looking for alternatives, with different prices and through a different service, this post is for you.

If you’re looking for an alternative approach to responsive navigation, which doesn’t involve the ‘hamburger’ this may be for you.

The inline-block method is an effective float based layout alternative. It’s easier to align and removes the need to clear floats.

This post is a follow up to a different method for horizontal scrolling navigation which used inline-block. In this post, I want to cover how flexbox can be used to achieve the same thing and the benefits over the inline-block method.

I first wrote a tutorial little while back on horizontal scrolling navigation, with the intention of accommodating only mobile devices. As with every device I have come across, the usability of horizontal scrolling areas is good.

I have been recently trying to get a consistent look across my element mixin no matter the colour. That’s where scale-color comes in.

One of the frustrating things about the letter-spacing property is the addition of the letter-spacing you apply to the last letter of the text. This is fine when you have left aligned text, however if you right align or centre the text, you’re left with a little bit of space.