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Dark Mode and Accessibility: Finding the Right Balance

Accessibility / 22 Jan 2025

Dark Mode and Accessibility: Finding the Right Balance

It didn’t take long for the “dark mode” to become a requirement for every user interface design. What started out as a design trend turned into a must-have feature for offering a comfortable user experience.

Due to its popularity, every type of design, from the UIs of operating systems on computers to websites, mobile apps, and even print designs now features a dark mode option.

According to a survey by Android Authority, 81.2% of 2,514 users claimed they prefer dark mode on their phones over light mode. It’s quite effective on desktop as well. After switching to a dark mode theme, a company was able to reduce the bounce rate by 60% and boost pageviews by 170% on their website.

But not everyone gets it right. Dark mode design is more than about adding a black background to a design. It’s about improving accessibility while balancing aesthetics at the same time. This process comes with some challenges as well.

In this post, we explore the importance of implementing dark mode in designs and discuss the benefits and the challenges that come with it. Let’s dive in.

30+ Best Pirate Fonts in 2025 (Free & Pro)

Font Collections / 22 Jan 2025

30+ Best Pirate Fonts in 2025 (Free & Pro)

When it comes to adding a sense of adventure, whimsy, and excitement, a pirate font is a perfect choice for your designs.

From Peter Pan to Sinbad and Pirates of the Caribbean, there are many pirate-themed movies, books, and cartoons loved by people of all ages. Mainly because we love to feel that same freedom and imagine ourselves exploring the high seas battling ships and occasional sea monsters.

A great pirate font will help you bring out that same feeling with a bit of nostalgia in people through your designs. Whether it’s a book cover, poster, or even a YouTube thumbnail, pirate fonts fit perfectly with many different designs.

Look through our handpicked collection of pirate fonts to find the perfect typeface for your projects.

120+ Best Microsoft Word Brochure Templates 2025

Brochure Templates / 22 Jan 2025

120+ Best Microsoft Word Brochure Templates 2025

Today, we’re bringing you a set of professionally designed Microsoft Word brochure templates to help you get a head start on your next brochure project.

Every designer has a collection of pre-designed templates. These templates not only allow you to enhance your workflow but also save hours of time otherwise spent searching for an inspiring starting point.

Whether you’re working on a brochure for a business, a case study, report, or a project proposal, you’ll find plenty of options to choose from in this collection of templates (and even more with our quick brochure design tips, and our full series on brochure templates!)

35+ Best DaVinci Resolve Logo Templates (Animated Logo Reveals) 2025

DaVinci Resolve Templates / 21 Jan 2025

35+ Best DaVinci Resolve Logo Templates (Animated Logo Reveals) 2025

One of the most important elements of creating branded video content is the logo reveal.

The logo reveal, or logo sting, is how you introduce and promote your brand through your video content. Almost every successful channel on YouTube uses unique logo reveal designs. And today we’ll help you create one for your own branded video projects.

In this collection, we bring you some of the most professional logo reveal templates for Davinci Resolve. They are easy to customize and allow you to create logo stings with cool animations and effects in just a few clicks.

There are logo templates with many different styles of designs for business, corporate, creative, and all kinds of creators out there, including free templates. Let’s jump right into the templates collection.

35+ Best Modern eBook Templates in 2025 (Free & Pro)

Business Templates / 21 Jan 2025

35+ Best Modern eBook Templates in 2025 (Free & Pro)

Writing a book is surely a difficult process. Then also coming up with a great design for your eBook is a challenge of its own. But you won’t have to worry about that, thanks to our collection of eBook templates.

Many businesses, brands, and even bloggers know that eBooks are a powerful marketing tool for promoting products and services. It’s also a popular incentive for growing your email lists.

With this collection of eBook templates, putting together a modern-looking eBook for your marketing needs will get much simpler. Here, you’ll find templates for all sorts of purposes.

These templates are easy to customize and you can just copy-paste your book content into the template and have it ready to download within minutes. Have a look.

Responsive Email Templates: Why They’re More Important Than Ever

Layouts / 21 Jan 2025

Responsive Email Templates: Why They’re More Important Than Ever

Email used to be a tool we used on computers to communicate with others. Today, it has evolved into a powerful method of marketing that has spread across multiple platforms.

Research and surveys have found that up to 78% of emails are viewed on mobile devices. This is especially true for the young generations as 67% of Gen-Zers claim they mainly use email on their phones.

Optimizing your emails for mobile devices is no longer optional, it’s now a requirement!

In today’s post, we want to highlight the importance of creating emails that are accessible across multiple platforms. And how you can create such emails using responsive email templates.

Let’s dive in.

45+ Best Psychedelic Fonts in 2025 (Free & Pro)

Font Collections / 20 Jan 2025

45+ Best Psychedelic Fonts in 2025 (Free & Pro)

One of the key elements of psychedelic design is the groovy fonts they use. So, we’ve found the perfect collection of psychedelic fonts for your next design project.

Psychedelic design has a long history that goes back to the 1960s. Inspired by the hippie culture, it influenced many forms of designs back in the day from artworks, paintings, posters, fashion designs, interior design, and more.

Today, we’re seeing psychedelic designs coming back as a modern design trend. The combination of vibrant colors and mellow typography is what makes this design trend more attractive to modern-day audiences.

We made sure to pick some of the grooviest psychedelic fonts for our collection. These fonts will help you craft far-out designs with peaceful vibes. Check them out below.

10 Poster Design Ideas & Inspiration

Poster Design / 20 Jan 2025

10 Poster Design Ideas & Inspiration

Creating a poster can be one of the most fun – or frustrating – design projects that you ever take on. Posters are a highly visible, public design project that can lead people to attend an event or generate buzz about something.

These designs are often large in scale and there’s nothing like seeing something you create in a physical form.

Here, we’ve rounded up some great poster design ideas and inspiration to get you excited about your next poster design project.

40+ Best Invoice Templates for Word (Free & Pro) 2025

Microsoft Word Templates / 20 Jan 2025

40+ Best Invoice Templates for Word (Free & Pro) 2025

Most businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers don’t pay much attention to the design of their invoices. For them, even an automatically generated invoice is enough as long as it gets the job done.

But the important thing to keep in mind is that even your invoice is part of your brand. So using a professionally-designed invoice that fits your brand identity is crucial to delivering a memorable experience to clients.

The good news is that you don’t have to look too far to find a great-looking invoice for your business. With the help of MS Word invoice templates, you can easily create an on-brand invoice without having to spend hours designing one from scratch.

In this collection, we bring you lots of choices for finding the best Word invoice template to get started. They are fully customizable, printable, and come in various styles of designs.

Grab a template and start making some money!

120+ Logo Mockup Templates (PSD & Vector) 2025

Logo Templates / 19 Jan 2025

120+ Logo Mockup Templates (PSD & Vector) 2025

Logo design plays a crucial role when it comes to the success of a business. And great logo mockup templates not only help you better present your logo design but can also make your logo design process more streamlined and efficient.

In order to help you present a logo design to your client in a super-polished way, we’ve gathered the best logo mockup templates from across the web.

All of these logo mockups are easy to use and can present your logo beautifully. Some are free, while others cost a few dollars.

Are you in the middle of a logo design project? Don’t forget to check out our in-depth guide on how to design a logo!

30+ Best Chalkboard Fonts 2025

Font Collections / 18 Jan 2025

30+ Best Chalkboard Fonts 2025

Chalkboard fonts are quite a popular choice among marketers, especially when it comes to making explainer videos, infographics, and social media posts. We handpicked a collection of the best chalkboard fonts just for you.

Since chalkboard fonts require extra work to design, great-looking chalk fonts are hard to find. There are only very few chalkboard fonts out there you can use with your professional projects.

We scoured the web to find some of those best chalk fonts and gathered them all in one place in this collection.

You’ll find both free and premium options to choose from to design various types of marketing, promotional, and educational content.

15 Tips for Creating a Great Website Footer

Layouts / 17 Jan 2025

15 Tips for Creating a Great Website Footer

One of the most important locations on your website is the footer. Yes, seriously. It may not be the area of the greatest design or most impressive content but it is a place where users frequently look for information. So it is vitally important that you don’t neglect this area when planning a web design project.

But what elements should you include? How can you keep the footer organized and in line with your overall aesthetic without being obtrusive? You’ve come to the right place. Here we’ll look at tips for creating a great footer with examples of some websites that are doing it well.

50+ Best Free Photoshop Brushes 2025

Photoshop Brushes / 17 Jan 2025

50+ Best Free Photoshop Brushes 2025

If you’re a professional designer or an illustrator who use Photoshop for design work you’ll find this collection of free Photoshop brushes quite valuable.

With the right set of brushes, you can go beyond your imagination to create unique graphic designs, illustrations, effects, backgrounds, and so much more using Photoshop. Of course, you don’t always have to pay to get the best brushes.

We scoured the web to find the best free Photoshop brushes and divided them into a few popular categories. Have a look.

50+ Best After Effects Title Templates 2025

After Effects Templates / 17 Jan 2025

50+ Best After Effects Title Templates 2025

Today we’re bringing you a collection of After Effects title templates featuring stunning visual effects and animations you can use in your own videos.

We handpicked these After Effects templates to feature titles of all kinds, including title scenes for YouTube openers, product promotions, social media videos, business videos, trailers, and much more.

All of these templates are from Envato Elements, where you can download all of these templates and more than a million other design elements for a single monthly subscription.

Have a look and start downloading.

30+ School Newsletter Templates 2025

Inspiration / 16 Jan 2025

30+ School Newsletter Templates 2025

A school newsletter template can help you create an effective way to bridge the gap between teachers, students, and parents to keep everyone updated on the latest news and upcoming events.

If your school don’t have a newsletter yet or planning on revamping your old newsletter design, use these easy to use school newsletter templates to instantly craft a more professional and attractive newsletter.

This collection includes customizable newsletter templates for all kinds of schools, colleges, and universities. You can download and edit the templates using Adobe InDesign to personalize the design to match your school branding. Plus, we’re sharing some helpful tips for designing a school newsletter to help get you started.

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