Online Font Identification Tool
WhatTheFont is a great online tool from My Fonts for identifying fonts. Upload a scanned image of the font you want to identify and WhatTheFont will do it’s best to pull as close a match as possible from the database.
Jun 18, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: fonts, tools, web app
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Paisley Pattern Photoshop Brushes
This nice set of Paisley pattern Photoshop brushes from Mels Brushes has got a nice sketchy feel to it. The pack is free for personal/non profit use, with a licensed version for commercial projects.
The pack includes a Photoshop ABR brush file and an image pack of transparent PNGs.
Jun 17, 2009
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Tagged: brushes, Paisley patter, Photoshop
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Photoshop Brushes: Drippy Sprays
The nice people over at webdesigner depot have just released a nice set of Photoshop brushes called Drippy Sprays. There are 30 brushes in the set which was created by Grant Friedman from Colorburned and as the name suggests the style is urban and grungey.
Jun 16, 2009
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Tagged: brushes, drips, grunge, spray, urban
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Some Grunge Textures
The grungification of the web continues today with a nice little set of 24 hi-res grunge texture pictures from thinkdesign.
Jun 15, 2009
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Tagged: grunge, hi-res, photos, pictures, textures
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500 Great Pixel Icons
More icons today folks!
The LED Web Icons set is an excellent collection of 500 16 by 16px mini pixel icons. They’re ideal for web applications, GUIs or toolbars.
You can see a preview of all of the icons here.
Jun 12, 2009
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Tagged: icons, mini, pixels
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Photoshop Smoke Brushes Set
Smoke effects are pretty cool. They look great in the grungiest of designs, bringing that extra dimension of mean and moody. Yet against a light background with the right splash of colour, the opposite effect occurs. The plumes of smoke become light, airy and elegant and can enhance the freshest of designs.
Here is a great Photoshop smoke brush set for using in your projects.
Jun 11, 2009
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Tagged: brushes, Photoshop, smoke
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Glossy Black Social Network Icons
There are more than a few sets of social network icons out there these days. And damn nice some of them are too. But this set from Webtreats Etc stands out from the crowd because it ditches the usual Web 2.0 riot of colour in favour of a uniform black on a glossy circular button.
There are a total of 108 icons in the pack and while they might not fit every web site it’s nice to see an alternative to the ususal styling.
Jun 10, 2009
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Tagged: black, buttons, glossy, icons, logos
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jQuery Image Magnifier
jQZoom Evolution is a javascript image magnifier built with jQuery as an update to the original jQZoom. And evolution is a great choice of name because this really is an awesome plugin. Installation is a snap, it’s got an excellent feature set and there are plenty of variables to tweak and fiddle with making it very customisable.
Some of the things that you can do with it:
- Standard zoom
- Reverse zoom
- Position the zoom window
- Adjust zoom area
- Zoom with/without lens
- Toggle or adjust fade in/out
It is also compatible in all modern browsers and will work it’s image magnifying magic in IE6+, FF 2+, Google Chrome 1.0, Safari 2+ and Opera 9+.
Jun 9, 2009
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Tagged: Ajax, FX, jQuery, plugins, zoom
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Typography Showcase
For all those of you typography fanatics riding the current wave of interest in all things typographical and trendy, you’re going to love TypeInspire. It’s a niche gallery showcase site focussing solely on excellent typography in web and graphic design.
Jun 8, 2009
Filed Under: Inspiration
Tagged: fonts, gallery, graphics, type
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Grunge Swirl Vectors
Dead Wings has just released a nice set of grunge swirl vectors. There are ten vectors in the pack and they are free to use however you like, either for personal or commercial projects.
Jun 7, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: graphics, grunge, vectors
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