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Apple’s rounded-corner icons
I’ve always thought there was just something ‘different’ about Apple’s rounded corner icons. I wish I could explain it, but there’s something comfortable and soothing about Apple’s implementation of rounded corners when compared to virtually every other company that tries.
Font management best practices for macOS
Extensis has released their annual Font Management Best Practices guide for macOS. I grab the PDF every year, if for no other reason than they always provide a list of required fonts for the current Mac OS version. This allows me to remove so many fonts I don’t use and aren’t necessary to run the system.
Best & worst logo redesigns of 2016
Free OS X Security Tools
Grab a number of security apps for Mac OS X (will probably work with macOS Sierra as well), absolutely free. Some are useful to the average user, others may require you to know a bit about what you’re doing.
Superhero visual alphabet
Australia-based illustrator and designer Simon Koay’s “Superbet.” Check out the details in the larger individual letters. Very cool!
It’s a designer’s job to ask good questions
This is some fantastic advice for designers of all disciplines, but particularly web designers. Ask good questions. The right questions. This is the foundation of a good creative brief.
My personal favorite is to simply ask “what is the goal?” The article even illustrates it almost exactly how I typically phrase it.
Janice Gervais at A List Apart covers that question and more, and ends the article with a bit of design truth: “Your work reflects your level of understanding.”
Don’t apply Baseline Shift to move a paragraph up or down in Adobe InDesign
Adobe InDesign’s Baseline Shift feature is designed for moving a character up or down a little bit—and it’s great for when a bullet is too low, or a trademark symbol needs to move down, or something like that. But it was not designed for setting the vertical position of a whole line or paragraph!
David Blatner has a great run-through at InDesign Secrets on how and when to properly adjust the Baseline of your text.
The Science of color: Why is Facebook blue
Companies use color to trigger an emotion from us. Here’s a great little article about why designers choose the colors they do.
What’s new in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
Adobe has updated Photoshop to CC 2017, bringing a few new features worth taking a look at. This article provides a good rundown of them. I’m not sure if I like the brand new dialog for creating new documents, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it quickly.