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  1. CodePen Challenge #3: Results!

    CodePen Challenge #3: Results!

    Tutorial Beginner

    Last week we asked you to take part in our third CodePen Challenge: to select your favorite Google font pairs and apply them to some sample content. Over 50...

  2. CodePen Challenge #3: Favorite Google Font Pairs

    CodePen Challenge #3: Favorite Google Font Pairs

    Tutorial Beginner

    Another month, another CodePen Challenge! Last time we asked you to style a signup form and a whopping 68 of you took part. This time we want to see which...

  3. The Lazy Person’s Guide to Responsive Typography

    The Lazy Person’s Guide to Responsive Typography

    Tutorial Beginner

    Typography is arguably the most important part of any website’s design. A huge header on a blank white page might look like a minimalist’s dream come true,...

  4. Designing a Web App UI Kit‏ in Adobe Photoshop

    Designing a Web App UI Kit‏ in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Style guide driven development offers a hugely flexible approach to modern web design. In this tutorial I'll walk you through designing a UI (user interface)...

  5. How to Use Web Fonts With Adobe Muse

    How to Use Web Fonts With Adobe Muse

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial I will show you how to use web fonts in your Adobe Muse projects. We'll cover font options offered within the web font catalogue, including...

  6. Photoshop CC 2014: What’s New for Web Designers?

    Photoshop CC 2014: What’s New for Web Designers?

    Tutorial Beginner

    Last month saw the launch of the all new Photoshop CC 2014, with lots of great new features, especially for web designers, including improved Layer Comps and...

  7. Tips to Help You Properly Mix Text With Imagery

    Tips to Help You Properly Mix Text With Imagery

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this article, we will discuss five different aspects of placing text over images that will help you properly mix copy and imagery.

  8. Designing an Elegant Blog Layout in Photoshop

    Designing an Elegant Blog Layout in Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a simple, elegant blog layout in Photoshop. We'll use a strong image above the fold (wherever that may...

  9. Getting the Hang of Hanging Punctuation

    Getting the Hang of Hanging Punctuation

    Tutorial Beginner

    Hanging Punctuation is a powerful typographic tool for creating optically aligned bodies of text. Unfortunately, it has been largely forgotten on the web......

  10. Simple Visual Enhancements for Better Coding in Sublime Text

    Simple Visual Enhancements for Better Coding in Sublime Text

    Tutorial Beginner

    Sublime Text offers thousands of extensions and settings to make a personalized code editor available for everyone. Right now, I’m going to show you some...

  11. A Web Designer's Typographic Boilerplate

    A Web Designer's Typographic Boilerplate

    Tutorial Beginner

    I like to use a typography.css in my projects; a separate file which houses all the basic structural typographic styles I'll need. A lot of what's found...

  12. Figuring Out @font-face

    Figuring Out @font-face

    Tutorial Beginner

    Within the last five years, typography on the web has taken quite an about face (sorry, pun intended). It used to be that web designers were constrained to...