The jQuery foundation has created a new site showcasing designs that Use jQuery. They currently have only about 30 samples organized by effect/function category, but they do accept submissions so show off that great interface or behavior that you’ve created!
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Logo Design Inspiration
I recently stumbled upon a list of 54 Kick Ass Creative Logos which in turn led me to Logo Faves, who accept submissions from designers, and describe themselves as:
A collection of best designed logos around the web is showcased in Logo Faves. We don’t want to be like other Logo repositories, our idea is to bring you all the best of best logos.
Also relying on suggestions and entries from webmasters to compile its collection, Web2.0 categorizes over 100 logos and displays the user-ratings for each.
FontFeed took a bit of a different approach in grouping popular web logos by style, and even though the article was published in 2006, it is still a great source of information.
So what are you waiting for? Check out some of the design resources over at For Web Designers and submit your best work!
Of course, you could always just use a pre-configured generator.
21 Useful Font Utilities
Looking for the perfect font system for your design, compare different styles side-by-side, or embed non-”web-safe” typeface in the layout? There’s a web application for that.
Highlights include:
- STC fontBROWSER – an online tool for browseing varoius fonts and viewing how your selected text looks with each.
- WhatTheFont – upload any image with characters and instantly find the closest matches within their database
- Typetester - compare different fonts for the screen, up to three at a time
- Font Burner – replace text on your page with one of 1000 vector-based fonts with a simple block of code
Check out the entire list of 21 Typography and Font Web Apps You Can’t Live Without.
25 Tips to Developing with jQuery
Jon Hobbs-Smith from the UK web development firm TVI Design has compiled a list of 25 tips to making your jQuery-powered applications easier to script and faster loading. While some of the items may be considered common knowledge (such as return false; for click events to prevent default behavior) the list provides excellent links and resources to people interested in using the Write Less, Do More JavaScript Library.
Considering almost all the recent updates to the framework relate to improving speed, why not take fullest advantage of them in making your application as responsive as possible?
Ecofont: Less is More
What’s “Black and white and read GREEN all over?”
Spranq, a creative communications agency in the Netherlands taken the conservation movement to typography.
The theory behind the font face:
Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours (and coffee) this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink. Free to download, free to use.