100 Types
A gathering of information on specific typefaces.
Adobe Indesign
Adobe
product that is the industry standard for page layouts and design (posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books). For professionals and high end projects but for personal or smaller projects, there are other programs with a lower learning curve.
Adobe Pagemaker
While
not on the level of Adobe InDesign, it is an effective page layout
program for the non-professional. Includes predesigned templates that
can be modified.
Adobe Kuler
Find complementary color palettes using a color wheel.
Axure
Design software interactive HTML website wireframe.
Balsamiq
Design software, a quick starter for wireframing tool.
Butterick's Practical Typography
Everything font-related including kerning, spacing, formatting, and more.
Commarts
"Inspiration for graphic
designers, art directors, design firms, corporate design departments, advertising
agencies, interactive designers, illustrators and photographers—everyone involved
in visual communication."
Design Thinking
Blog by Tim Brown about Design issues. Brown is author of Change by Design.
Font Feed
A "daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world."
Font dragr
Browser based tool that checks for web-friendly fonts. Just drag and drop.
Font Shop
This link takes you to the design section of the website where you can "improve your design skills with typography tips and tutorials. FontShop
Education docs are formatted for easy downloading and printing, perfect
for the classroom or studio." There's also a healthy glossary section, among other things.
How Design
This site seeks to meet the "business, creativity and technology needs of graphic designers."
Idea Mag
Japanese design magazine.
Indesign
See Adobe Indesign
Keynotopia
Design software.
QuarkXpress
Page
layouts for Mac or PC.Alternative to Adobe InDesign.
Lucid Press
Page
layouts for the non-professional to design flyers, newsletters, etc.
Markup Wand
Photoshop to HTML/CSS converter. Strip down Photoshop files (.psd) and convert them to embeddable HTML or CSS code.
PagePlus
Page
layouts for Mac.
Page Stream
Page
layouts for the non-professional to design flyers, newsletters, etc.
Society for News Design
Columns and tips on design, workshop schedule, membership database and more.
Society of Publication Designers
OmniGraffle
Design software. Industry standard.
Print Mag
Design tips, education, resources from Print Magazine, a bimonthly magazine about visual culture and design.
Scribus
Page
layouts. Alternative to Adobe InDesign.
What the Font
Figures out what font you are looking at.
