The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Why Isn’t The Sky Purple? Understanding the thermal value of colors. [Video]
3‑minute video.Tags: Photoshop photography RGB
- Designer Uses Iconic Men’s Room Symbol To Describe Different Typographic Style
Featuring 12 well-known typefaces from different typographic groups—including Didot, Helvetica and Courier—the print shows the ubiquitous men’s room symbol in stylized, font-inspired forms.
Tags: typography
- Typewolf → A Comprehensive Guide to Smart Quotes, Dashes & Other Typographic Characters
Everything you need to know about smart quotes, proper apostrophes, em dashes, en dashes, accented characters and moreTags: typography design
- Business Case Comparison – Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and ePub3 [PDF]
This document compares DPS
.folios and ePub3 from the business perspective.Tags: eprdctn epub dps - Work Sans – Open Source Font Family with 10 Weights, Built for Onscreen Type
Work Sans is a superfamily in progress based loosely on early Grotesques. The core of the fonts are optimized for on-screen medium-sized text usage (14px-48px) – but still very usable in print.
Tags: typography design
- Typography for Lawyers, a whole website and book
“[Butterick] makes his case for the importance of typography with crisp precision. Any lawyer who reads this book and continues to ignore Butterick’s good advice is foolish … I wish this book had been around when I started practicing … .” —Ernie Svenson, Ernie the Attorney
Tags: typography law lawpractice
- Shame and Survival. Monica Lewinsky on her exile and the culture of shaming on the Web.
After 10 years of self-imposed reticence, and now hoping to help victims of Internet shaming, she critiques the culture that put a 24-year-old through the wringer and calls out the feminists who joined the chorus.Tags: SocialMedia
- If rainbows are ROYGBIV, where’s the violet? [Video]
3‑minute video asks and answers several questions about the rainbow, including: why cyan is in the rainbow but not mentioned in ROYGBIV and; where is the violet we say is in the rainbow?Tags: Design Photography RGB
- In Case You Missed It, Adobe Ink and Slide (né Mighty and Napoleon) Had a Price Drop
Think of Ink and Slide as digital versions of a pen and a ruler. Ink lets you draw or write on the surface of an iPad, while Slide acts like a ruler or protractor, making it easy to draw straight lines and shapes.Tags: Drawing