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Trends / 3 Oct 2022

Design Trend: Creative Scroll Arrows

Scroll arrows are a common design element with many sites using a small icon to help users navigate down the page. It’s nothing new, and it’s been around as a visual indicator for decades.

What’s new is that more designers are experimenting with more creative ways to use these elements to create additional engagement and visual interest. Whether it’s the design of the scroll arrow itself, it’s placement, or animation and visual effects. There’s a lot of creativity at work!

Here’s a look at the creative scroll arrows design trend and ways to make it work in your projects.

Keynote Templates / 30 Sep 2022

20+ Keynote Pitch Deck Templates (Business Plan Pitches)

When you’re pitching your great business idea, you’ll often be faced with tough competition. You’ve got to tell the growth story of your company so that you add investors and employees to your company. A Keynote pitch deck can help convey your message.

Pitch decks introduce your business plan to potential investors. Keynote pitch deck templates are the best way for you to succeed. Polish leads to a successful pitch presentation. That’s why it’s critical to stand out with an amazing pitch deck presentation.

Check out these fantastic, and professionally designed Keynote templates that have been specifically built for a business presentation or investor pitch and are ready to download and customize at the click of a button.

Font Collections / 29 Sep 2022

25+ Fun Kids Fonts for Children’s Designs

When it comes to designing graphics for kids, typography plays an important role. Kids love reading and spelling out words. But the key to getting their attention is the design of the letters.

If letters look boring, kids will immediately lose focus and attention. As a designer, it’s your job to make those titles and text look as fun as possible for kids.

Today, we have some of the coolest kids fonts you can use to create fun graphic designs for children. You can use these fonts to design bright and attractive book covers, product packaging designs, clothing items, and much more.

Have a look and start downloading. There are a few free fonts in the list too.

Inspiration / 28 Sep 2022

20+ Best Wix Portfolio Templates (Photography, Graphic Design, Art, UX & More)

Wix is one of the best platforms you can use to show off your work with an online portfolio website.

Wix is much more affordable than other online website-building platforms and it offers an impressive collection of pre-made portfolio site templates for you to find the perfect design.

Today, we handpicked the very best of Wix portfolio templates. This collection will help you find inspiration to design your own portfolio website. It includes Wix portfolio examples for all kinds of creatives and professionals.

Explore all the templates below and be sure to check out the guide at the end to learn how to create a portfolio website on Wix.

How to Design a Logo / 28 Sep 2022

60+ Best Fonts for Logo Design

Crafting the perfect logo often takes a lot of hard work and time. You have to come up with a design outline, pick the right colors, and find the perfect logo font to match the branding. Don’t worry. We’re here to make that process a bit easier for you.

No need to spend hours surfing the web to find a great font for your logo design, we’ve already picked the best ones for you. Have a look at this handpicked collection of the best logo fonts and choose the one that works best for your project!

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!

Business / 27 Sep 2022

How Often Do You Need to Redesign Your Website? (7 Ways to Know It Is Time)

Does it seem like as soon as you finally get your website design right, it’s time for a change?

You are not alone. With the speed at which technology – and design trends – are changing, that’s a common feeling. But how often do you really need a redesign? When do you know that it is time?

It’s a balancing act. You don’t want to waste resources on an unnecessary redesign, but equally you don’t want to fall behind and risk a dated online presence.

Let’s walk through the answers to those questions with some website template examples from Envato Elements to help jumpstart your design thinking.

Inspiration / 27 Sep 2022

20+ Best Wix Blog Templates & Examples (Create a Blog on Wix)

Setting up a blog using Wix is quite easy. In fact, it will only take you a few minutes to go from registering a Wix account to having a full-featured blog up and running.

The only task that will likely take up most of your time is finding a great template for your blog design. Because there are tons of templates in the Wix library. So we wanted to help you save your time by picking out the best of the best Wix blog templates for you.

In this post, you’ll find some of the most beautiful and professional-looking Wix blog templates you can use to setup a blog. There are many different styles of blog template designs in this collection so be sure to explore them all.

If you’re new to Wix, read the guide on how to create a blog on Wix at the end of the post.

PowerPoint Templates / 26 Sep 2022

50+ Best Minimal PowerPoint Templates 2022

Delivering a minimalist PowerPoint presentation can clearly convey your message, and remove any clutter. This collection of modern, minimal PowerPoint templates is a great place to start—they put the focus on you as the speaker, and what you have to convey!

These files are all fully editable and can be easily tweaked according to your needs. Most come with hundreds of example slides with graphs, tables, images, text, and more. They’re perfect for giving that next presentation a special touch.

Embrace the minimal design philosophy, choose a stunning PowerPoint template for your next presentation that has clean lines, subtle design, and a simple, professional look-and-feel.

Font Collections / 26 Sep 2022

50+ Best Condensed & Narrow Fonts of 2022

Contrary to popular belief, condensed and narrow fonts don’t make your text cramped or crowded. You just have to know the appropriate time and place to use the font. Condensed fonts are widely used these days for headlines and portraying bold messages, and when deployed in the right place, they can give stunning impact!

It takes a lot of testing and experimenting to find the perfect font for a design, but our tips for choosing and working with condensed and narrow fonts will help get you off to a great start!

Features / 23 Sep 2022

Font Collections

This is our series of beautiful, inspiring collections of fonts and typefaces. These articles feature bold poster fonts, decorative scripts, and everything in-between! Find the perfect font for your next design project with one of these collections.

Whether you’re looking for a particular type of font or a style of typeface that matches an event or theme, we’ve got you covered. Some of these fonts are free, others are included in an Envato Elements subscriptions, and many cost just a few dollars. The typeface makes the design, and these fonts can elevate your work to a whole new level!

Font Collections / 23 Sep 2022

20+ Best Horror Style Fonts (Horror + Scary Movie Fonts)

The font you choose for any horror-related project holds a lot of weight – both metaphorically and quite often physically on the page too. The fun you can have with typography design when it comes to horror is immense, because this is one theme that is far more extreme than most and can be handled accordingly.

Horror demands attention, aims to make your heart beat ever quicker in your chest and fill you with a range of emotions from fear, anxiety and stress, to sadness, strength, shock, mystery and more.

As a design theme it is the worst and the very best and there is no shortage of great fonts to help you conjure up the emotion you’re searching for.

In this article we’ve rounded up the best horror fonts we’ve found lurking in the dark for your scary projects.

Keynote Templates / 22 Sep 2022

60+ Best Free Keynote Templates 2022

Today we’re bringing you a collection of the best free Keynote templates for making all kinds of presentation slideshows, including business, creative, agency, and startup pitch decks.

Keynote is a great tool for making effective presentations. But, let’s face it, when it comes to the default templates included, your options are limited. Luckily you can still download and use Keynote templates made by other designers. For this collection, we handpicked some of the best free Keynote templates just for you.

Sure, these templates might not have the polish of premium Keynote templates you can spend a few dollars on. But, for the very low price of free, these will give you more than enough to design a stand-out slideshow.

Business / 22 Sep 2022

9 Tips for a Great Newsletter Signup Design

If newsletter signups are one of the desired conversions on your website, a great design is vital to achieving success. A clear, well-designed newsletter signup form will help draw attention to the element on the page, and encourage people to use it.

This form is often see as a small element in the overall website design, but it can pack a big punch. So don’t overlook it in your design process!

Here are nine tips to help you make the most of your email newsletter signup design.

Font Collections / 22 Sep 2022

20+ Best Nautical Fonts (Sea + Sailing Style Fonts)

The nautical style of design is one of the most popular trends used in many different types of designs, including logos, labels, greeting cards, and especially children’s designs.

A key element of a great nautical-themed design is typography. Whether it’s a sailing or pirate-style design, you need the right nautical font to make your overall design look the part.

Well, you don’t have to go anywhere to find the perfect font for your nautical design. We did the work for you. In this post, we feature a collection of fantastic nautical fonts. There are many different styles of sea, sailing, and pirate fonts in this collection to suit all kinds of design projects.

You’ll find both premium and free nautical fonts in this list. Be sure to download them all!