Design

I’ve developed some habits over the years when it comes to the display of text in a design with the aim of readability and aesthetic balance. And it feels like it could be useful to document this.

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

Our websites can offer us an important advantage when it comes to choosing colour for illustration—constraint.

There are three types of stroke alignment, so when and where is each useful?

A common part of a website is the ability to search. Depending on how important search is to your website can define much of how it looks and how it’s prioritised in the design.

Add a little extra polish to any of your designs with these tips.

It happens, sometimes you can be stuck starting a new design, here’s some tips that aim to help overcome the challenge.

In Illustrator it appears more difficult than it needs to be to export a colour palette to hex values, here’s a quick way.

Learn how to create, change and duplicate patterns as swatches.

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

You may have two shapes and want to combine them, but still want to refine the overall shape or save it for later. This post shows you two options.

Monthly design roundup #2 — the best websites, illustration, branding, and articles I found this month, with a few notes on each.