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Procreate Brushes / 18 Dec 2024

60+ Best Procreate Brushes 2025 (Free & Pro)

If you’re a digital artist searching for the perfect Procreate brush to craft stunning illustrations or to design unique website header images, we’ve got a great collection of professional Procreate brushes just for you.

Procreate is amongst the most popular drawing apps available for iPad Pro. It’s actually more than just a simple drawing app. With the Apple Pencil stylus and the right set of brushes, this app can help you craft amazing digital drawings and paintings.

The app comes with over 130 basic brushes. But, many people don’t realize that they can expand this collection with custom brushes that have been carefully created by professionals. We’ve handpicked some of the best custom brushes you can use with your Procreate app.

Inspiration / 17 Dec 2024

65+ Best Food & Drink Menu Templates 2025

Using a pre-made menu template can be a great starting point for your restaurant or cafe. This is our collection of the best food and drink menu templates out there, to give you some delicious inspiration!

If you’re a restaurant owner or a designer working for the food industry, it can be helpful to start with a template (rather than beginning from scratch). These menu templates are easy to customize and can be a lifesaver in situations where you have to meet a tight deadline.

Most of these cover a full three-course menu, along with separate wine and coffee templates. All starting from just a couple of dollars!

We’ve also curated a list of menu design tips, to help you out with your menu project.

Font Collections / 17 Dec 2024

55+ Best YouTube Fonts (For Thumbnails + Videos) 2025

Designing the thumbnails and video titles is an important part of creating a professional YouTube channel. We’re here to guide you through the design process by helping you pick the best YouTube font for your channel branding, as well as individual videos.

In this post, we feature a collection of the best YouTube fonts you can use to design eye-catching video thumbnails, titles, YouTube covers, logos, and much more.

We made sure to handpick fonts with unique styles as well as professional character designs to make sure your YouTube titles look unlike any other on the video blogging platform.

Plus, we’re sharing a few YouTube font tips for finding just the right typeface for your next video.

Layouts / 17 Dec 2024

Breaking Monotony: The Role of Surprise in Effective Design

We all love a good surprise. We’re not just talking about birthdays, weddings, and special events, but it’s also an effective strategy used in design to create more memorable websites, marketing campaigns, and even user interfaces.

Think of any website you thought was so cool and it would undoubtedly feature a surprise element. Whether it’s an attractive animation, an interactive widget, or an uncommon layout, the designs that surprise you are the ones that stay in your memory.

Today, we explore this topic to uncover the role of surprise in creative design to help you craft unique creations that break the norms. Let’s dive in.

Poster Design / 16 Dec 2024

100+ Best Poster Mockup Templates 2025

Without the right poster mockup to showcase your work professionally, your poster design doesn’t have the chance to stand out from the crowd. It’s often easy to overlook the way you present and showcase your poster designs! That’s why it’s worth investing in a set of useful poster mockup templates, to showcase your work in a beautiful setting.

If you’re working on a poster design right now, you’re in luck. Because we’ve picked out a collection of the absolute best poster mockups from all over the web, which you can use for presenting your work.

Whatever your poster style, theme, or size, we’ll have something in this collection for you.

We’re also featuring tips for modern poster design to help you with your poster design project!

Layouts / 16 Dec 2024

8 Rules for Creating an Effective Responsive Website or App

Users are spending a lot of time interacting with websites on mobile devices, rather than desktops. And that number seems to be growing daily. According to eMarketer, adults in the U.S. spend an average of 3 hours and 35 minutes on their phones, and the amount of time engaging on these devices is expected to pass TV viewing next year.

That has significant implications for all web designers and developers. You must be creating effective responsive websites or apps to meet this need. Today, we’re exploring eight rules to make sure you follow whenever you’re designing a responsive experience (whether for a website or an app).

PowerPoint Templates / 16 Dec 2024

40+ Real Estate PowerPoint Templates (For Property Listings) 2025

Real estate listing presentations are a key part of winning over clients and selling properties. And the main component of a successful presentation is a great-looking PowerPoint slideshow.

Today, we handpicked a collection of real estate listing presentation templates for PowerPoint. You can download and use these templates to quickly put together a killer presentation to showcase your property listings without needing any graphic design or presentation design skills.

There are many different types of PowerPoint templates in this list for presenting both big and small properties as well as luxury villas and apartment complexes. There are templates for promoting your real estate agency and services as well.

Be sure to download them all, including the free PowerPoint templates we’ve included just for you.

Font Collections / 15 Dec 2024

90+ Best Slab Serif Fonts of 2025

Slab serif fonts can be used for a variety of purposes, ranging from general body text to headlines, to display copy. It’s a typography variant that has been used widely for digital as well as print purposes, and devices such as Amazon Kindle even use a slab serif as their default font.

In order to celebrate this amazing subtype, we have gathered 50+ amazing slab serif fonts that you can use for your next design project.

They’re bold, beautiful, and carry plenty of impact. All of the font packs included consist of different variants and weights that give you plenty of scope to experiment in your designs. Let’s take a look!

Font Collections / 14 Dec 2024

40+ Best Tropical Fonts (Free & Pro) for 2025

Tropical fonts encapsulate the essence of sun-drenched beaches, lush jungles, and island paradises, making them perfect for projects that require a touch of exotic flair.

In this post, we explore a curated collection of the best tropical fonts available. These fonts are selected for their ability to convey the carefree, adventurous spirit of the tropics through their design.

Whether you’re designing for a beach resort, creating promotional materials for a summer festival, or looking to add an element of relaxation and fun to your branding, the tropical fonts in this list will offer a breezy, artistic vibe that transports viewers to their dream vacation. Have a look.

Flyer Templates / 13 Dec 2024

How to Design an Awesome Flyer (Even if You’re Not a Designer)

This article will walk you through the process and logic of designing a basic but attractive flyer. We’ll look at how you can plan your content, find and implement some quality images and handle the alignment of a significant amount of content while not sacrificing too much of the visual appeal.

Design Shack reader Abigail submitted a Design Dilemma to ask about flyer design. After reading through our tips on designing presentations, she wanted to know how she could apply similar advice to flyer design. In our presentation article, we advised designers to keep their slides painfully simple, but flyers understandably must contain more information than a simple headline.

We’re going to answer Abigail’s question with a full-on flyer design project that you can either browse through for general design advice or follow along with for some solid experience.

InDesign Templates / 13 Dec 2024

55+ Best InDesign Templates 2025 (For Brochures, Flyers, Books & More)

InDesign is a piece of software that can be used for all manner of design and publishing. With the help of pre-made InDesign templates, you can take full advantage of this software to supercharge your workflow and complete projects in record time.

Whether you’re working on a brochure design, flyer design, book, or magazine design, you can easily get a head start in your design process when using an InDesign template that’s already been designed and formatted by professionals.

In this post, we’re featuring a hand-picked selection of various InDesign templates you can use with all kinds of projects. If you’re looking for inspiration, these designs will help you get a few new ideas as well.

Font Collections / 12 Dec 2024

50+ Best Retro Fonts in 2025 (Free & Premium)

Retro design is everywhere. Thanks to people’s craving for nostalgia, there’s a growing demand for logo designs, badges, and even brand identities that uses this stylish design trend.

You can never go wrong with a good retro design. But, you need to find the perfect retro font to make your retro designs more attractive.

If you look at any successful retro design, you’ll notice that that the key element in every one of them is a great-looking retro font. It’s the typography that adds a truly retro look to the designs.

In this collection, we bring you many different styles of retro fonts to help you get a head-start in your retro design projects. Pick a font from the list below.