Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 9 October 2014

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.

  • How to Recognize Colors from RGB or Hexadecimal Codes

    Each num­ber denotes the strength of that par­tic­u­lar col­or – FF0000 is only red (no green, no blue), 00FF00 only green (no red, no blue). If all col­ors are present in equal strength FFFFFF, you get white, if no col­or is present 000000, you get full black.

  • 7 Tips for Metadata Magic for Self-Publishers

    Metadata—just the word alone can cause some indie authors to shake their head in dis­may. But there’s a lot more to meta­da­ta than you may know. Today, I’m very pleased to intro­duce you to my friend Betty Sargent, who has a deep and rich his­to­ry in tra­di­tion­al pub­lish­ing, and who now helps indie authors pro­duce and pro­mote their books through her BookWorks site. Today Betty has the low­down on meta­da­ta, so get ready for an enter­tain­ing and infor­ma­tive read.

  • Are You Sure You Should Be A Freelance Designer?

    And, truth be told, not every­one who works in the cre­ative field should be a design­er. The good news is, there are many oth­er pro­fes­sions which may suit you bet­ter than actu­al­ly design­ing. Perhaps you should con­sid­er work­ing toward a dif­fer­ent career: art direct­ing, pro­gram­ming, illus­trat­ing, tak­ing pho­tos, run­ning a busi­ness, etc. How do you know? Let’s fig­ure it out!

  • Hover.css – CSS3 Library With More Than 40 Hovering Effects

    Hover.css is a free CSS library to eas­i­ly apply ani­ma­tion using the hov­er effect. You can apply the hov­er in call to actions, but­tons, logos, images and much more. This library comes with over 40 effects to choose from and they’re cat­e­go­rized accord­ing to the fol­low­ing: 2D trans­forms, bor­der tran­si­tions, shad­ow and glow tran­si­tions, speech bub­bles, and page curls.

  • 5 embar­rass­ing exam­ples of bad kerning
    Warning: The fol­low­ing images may seri­ous­ly offend your eyes!