October 3, 2008 • Resources • Tags: CSS , Fonts
Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS. You can browse typographic styles. Download CSS. Compare Windows (ClearType) rendering with Apple font rendering. Each style corresponds with a “style ID”, which allows you to annotate prototypes and retrieve the css while coding.
May 21, 2008 • Resources • Tags: Performance
Pingdom Tools is web-based application that you can use for easily testing the performance of your web pages. It can give you information on the total loading time of a web page and the total number of objects required to render the page, such as images, css, scripts, etc.
May 19, 2008 • Resources • Tags: Images
A lot of Web 2.0 designs these days sport alternating colored horizontal rules, used as either section dividers or element borders. The Ribbon Rules Generator tool can easily generate your own “Ribbon Rules” using random shades of a single color, or explicit colors of your choice!
May 12, 2008 • Resources • Tags: Fonts
FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop. FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. You create ‘FontStructions’ using the ‘FontStructor’ font editor. Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.
