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Typography / 31 Jan 2023

The 2023 Guide to Responsive Typography Sizing and Scales

The true responsiveness of your website design is more than a framework that scales to each device, it also requires that typography adjusts to optimum readability as well.

Responsive typography will adjust so that text elements also change size and scale on websites. While that’s the technical answer, there’s also a greater design approach that is equally important, because just changing the size of a text element isn’t always enough.

Let’s dive into responsive typography best practices, a few guidelines, and some tools to help you create great type at any size.

Font Collections / 31 Jan 2023

25+ Best Bubble & Balloon Fonts (Free & Premium)

Bubble and balloon fonts are the ideal choices for designing titles and headings with kid-like fun outlooks. They usually go perfectly well together with greeting cards, banners, posters, and so many different types of designs.

Today, we are showing you how fun and wild these bubble fonts can really get with our handpicked collection. We found bubble and balloon fonts with some weird and wild letter designs. You’ll definitely want to download them all.

If you want to design typography with a fun and playful look, you can’t go wrong with a bubble font. Be sure to check out the free fonts in the mix too.

Microsoft Word Templates / 31 Jan 2023

35+ Best Business & Project Proposal Templates for Microsoft Word 2023

Microsoft Word is the perfect tool for quickly putting together a professional brochure or a proposal in a very short amount of time. What makes it even better is the ability to use templates.

With Word templates, you can instantly produce a high-quality brochure design without having to spend hours perfecting it. They simply help cut your work time in half.

In this post, we feature some of the best proposal templates for Word that you can use to create beautiful brochures for various types of business proposals. Be sure to keep a few of these templates saved on your computer to use whenever you need to create a quick project proposal.

Flyer Templates / 31 Jan 2023

50+ Best Fonts for Flyers 2023

When it comes to flyer design, choosing the right font can make a big difference. This collection of the best fonts for flyers can help you find a unique typeface for your next design project.

Whether you’re working on a flyer design for a business event, a party, a music festival, or a club event, it’s important to pick a font that matches the overall theme of the flyer and the business.

You need to find a font that suits the design of the flyer, the message of the event, and the target audience.

Luckily, you don’t have to spend hours searching for that perfect font. We’ve done the heavy work for you and handpicked the fonts in this collection to match all those types of flyer designs (and more!).

We’re also sharing our tips for choosing a flyer font to help guide you through the process.

Photoshop Brushes / 30 Jan 2023

65+ Best Photoshop Brushes of 2023

Today, we’re bringing you a collection of the best Photoshop brushes for creating amazing designs like a pro without having to break the bank.

We know for a fact that designers love to collect all kinds of brushes. That’s why we made sure to include a mix of Photoshop brushes in this post that will be useful in creating various types of designs, including everything from drawing to painting, coloring, texturing, shading, and much more.

We’ve collected a mix of free Photoshop brushes, and high-end premium options, for every budget.

Final Cut Pro Templates / 30 Jan 2023

40+ Best Final Cut Pro Intro Templates 2023

Crafting an attractive intro is the toughest part of making a video. However, if you’re using Final Cut Pro, you can now skip all that work and get your video made within half the time. All thanks to Final Cut Pro intro templates.

The opening scene or the intro of a video needs to be able to not only grab the attention of your audience but also to get them interested in watching the rest of the video. It’s a tough art to master, especially if you’re new to Final Cut Pro.

When using Final Cut Pro intro templates, you don’t have to worry about any of that. You can easily import a beautifully animated intro scene to your video, edit it to add your own titles and content, and export.

We rounded up some amazing intro and opener templates you can use with Final Cut Pro. You’ll find plenty of free and premium templates in the list below. Be sure to download them all.

Mockup Templates / 30 Jan 2023

70+ Best Scene and Mockup Generators of 2023

It isn’t always easy to find the right mockup for your header or feature image. Using a mockup generator can help you tweak and customize a mockup to match your needs perfectly.

Mostly because high-quality stock photos and images are hard to find, and can come with hefty price tags. Even when you do find a great image, you later discover that someone else is using that exact same image on a different website. Which brings you back to square one. However, there’s a simpler solution to this problem: Scene generators!

Scene and mockup generators are bundles of elements and objects, which you can use to create your own unique header images, product mockup scenes, and custom graphics however you like. The best part is that you’ll be able to use these scene generators to create all the images you need for various projects.

Software / 30 Jan 2023

10 Ideas for Using ChatGPT as a Web Designer

ChatGPT might be one of the most talked-about tools of 2023 so far. It has academics worried about cheating in classrooms, writers worried about their jobs, and everyone concerned about the authenticity of online interactions.

But it does have some value, even for web designers. We’ll take a look at how ChatGPT might be useful for you, ways it might not, and what an AI dialogue and writing tool can actually do for website designers and developers.

Let’s explore what this next stage in the AI revolution can mean for you, as a web designer.

Premiere Pro Templates / 29 Jan 2023

75+ Best Premiere Pro Templates 2023

Today we’re featuring a collection of easy to use Adobe Premiere Pro templates you can use to quickly craft professional-looking scenes for your videos.

Whether you’re looking to make an opening scene for your YouTube channel, a title sequence for a video, slideshows, or even product promotions, this list of Adobe Premiere Pro templates has it all.

We’ve included a mix of free Premiere Pro templates and top-notch premium options too. So there’s something for every budget!

InDesign Templates / 28 Jan 2023

24+ Best InDesign Portfolio Templates + Examples 2023

One of the few occasions you’re expected to show off is when presenting your portfolio. In fact, landing your next client will depend on how well you can showcase your skills with your portfolio.

Today, we want to help you show off bigger than ever with an amazing portfolio brochure. We handpicked a collection of InDesign portfolio templates to help you find that perfect layout to highlight your skills and experience through your best work.

Whether you’re a freelancer, graphic designer, photographer, architect, or agency this list has all types of portfolio examples and templates to find inspiration to make your own portfolio layout. Have a look.

PowerPoint Templates / 27 Jan 2023

25+ Best Fashion + Style PowerPoint Templates (On Trend for 2023)

Looking for the perfect PowerPoint template to showcase your fashion designs or create a lookbook-style presentation? Then you’ve come to the right place!

We found some of the best fashion PowerPoint templates you can use to make presentations for all kinds of lifestyle and fashion-themed projects.

Whether you’re working on a fashion catalog, lookbook slideshow, introducing a new product lineup, or presenting a new fashion brand, there are templates in this collection for all kinds of purposes.

These templates are full of color, style, and animations. You’ll probably want to download them all. Go ahead, have a look.

PowerPoint Templates / 27 Jan 2023

60+ Best Minimal PowerPoint Templates 2023

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.

Microsoft Word Templates / 26 Jan 2023

22+ Best Business Plan Templates for Word 2023

Are you writing a business plan for a brand new startup? Or updating an old business plan for an established brand? Then this collection of MS Word business plan templates will definitely come in handy.

The key to making an effective business plan brochure that wins over investors and inspires employees is to use a modern and attractive design.

No one wants to read through a 100-page brochure that looks like a VCR manual from the 1960s. Today, people prefer cleaner brochure layouts with proper paragraph formatting that offer a much smoother reading experience.

Designing such modern business plan documents is not that difficult. In fact, you can easily create them using Word templates.

In this post, we showcase high-quality business plan templates for Word that have been designed by professionals. They feature modern designs and clean layouts that are perfect for all kinds of startups, businesses, and corporate companies. Have a look.

Inspiration / 26 Jan 2023

What Is Modern Web Design in 2023? 20+ Stunning Examples

What are the characteristics of a modern website design? It’s a pretty common question.

From clients asking at the start of web projects to designers trying to figure out how to incorporate the newest and trendy elements, figuring out what modern web design looks like is one of our greatest challenges.

The reality is that it is easy to say what modern web design is not. You know an outdated design when you see it for sure. Here, we’ve collected 23 examples of modern web designs to help shape a better idea of what it looks like in 2023. Enjoy!