#150 - Sticking to it
Hey everyone,
Welcome to issue #150, your weekly roundup of what’s happening in design, code and typography.
Thought provoking #
“Materials and dimensionality has made its way back into the interface —and every single app icon for every application and utility that Apple ships with macOS has been redesigned with depth, textures and lighting. This is a big deal. Probably bigger than what most people realise.” Michael Flarup in The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design.
“What blows me away most of all, is that the really good designers stand up to the misfortune of a killed idea. They take away the lesson of what went wrong, and come back with something that much stronger. Or, if not stronger, something different but equally good.” Jeffrey Zeldman in Sticking To It.
Design and Code #
Websites that spark joy. Max Böck’s latest project is The Whimsical Web, a curated list of sites with an extra bit of fun, “designed to showcase how a more personal web could look like, and hopefully give you some inspiration to make your own corner of the web a bit weirder.”
CSS News July 2020. Rachel Andrew takes a look at some of the interesting CSS features that are making their way into browsers right now.
Smashing Podcast Episode 19 With Andy Bell: What Is CUBE CSS? …and how does it differ from approaches such as BEM, SMACSS, and OOCSS?
Monetizing Your Blog With Coil. Chen Hui Jing demonstrates how is it easy to start earning money for the content you create.
10 modern layouts in 1 line of CSS. Una Kravets goes over the power of modern CSS layout techniques by highlighting a few key terms and how much detail can be described in a single line of code.
Typography #
Plus Jakarta Sans is a versatile modern open source type family designed by Tokotype for +Jakarta City Branding. Each glyph has its own varieties with its own different characteristics. Available in both Display and Text styles.
CSS Animated Google Fonts. A quick tutorial from Jhey Tompkins that shows you how to get started with variable font animations.
Jeffrey Zeldman on the release of two more great flavors of Adelle; Adelle Mono & Adelle Mono Flex.
Twitter loves Milton Glaser: the highlights. A tribute to the master of graphic design who passed away on his 91st birthday, the 26th of June, in Manhattan.
A narrow sans serif, FUD Grotesk was inspired by brutalist architecture and modernist typography. There is a subtle stroke contrast, many inktraps, and even some microserifs.
Something to watch #
Build it in Figma: Design a Cohesive Icon Set. Jump in and create a cohesive icon set for a mobile app alongside Noah Jacobus from Metalab and Designer Advocate Rogie King.