20 Best Free Official Fonts, license-free, by vitaly friedman
A curated guide to the best free official fonts available for designers and developers.
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Information on Border Slants
This guide demonstrates a CSS technique called "slants" that uses colored borders of varying widths to create geometric shapes like triangles, trapezoids, and polygons in pure HTML and CSS, with applications ranging from decorative elements to complex constructions like stars and arbitrary lines. The method exploits how browser rendering combines borders at different angles, though it has limitations—triangles must have at least one horizontal or vertical edge, and angles below 90 degrees require workarounds like transparent borders or overlapping shapes. The author illustrates how these basic building blocks can be combined and manipulated to create more sophisticated visual effects and even dynamic drawings with JavaScript.
Media types
CSS enables different style sheets or style rules to apply to different output media—such as screens, print, braille devices, or speech synthesizers—by using @media and @import at-rules or media attributes in HTML markup. Different media types often need different values for the same property (like font-size), since a document displayed on screen requires different formatting than the same document on paper. CSS defines nine recognized media types (screen, print, handheld, braille, speech, projection, etc.) and organizes properties into media groups based on whether they apply to continuous or paged media, visual or audio content, and interactive or static devices.
XHTML Character Entity Reference
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Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen
Typetester is a browser-based tool for testing and comparing web fonts from a library of over 2800 options, letting designers preview typography in real-time without switching between design software and browsers. The platform generates exportable HTML and CSS code for responsive typographic designs, eliminating the need for coding knowledge and making it easy to share projects or hand off specifications to developers.
start · The Design Encyclopedia
A comprehensive encyclopedic reference covering design principles, history, and practices across disciplines.
ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox
A free web-based tool for creating and matching color palettes and combinations.
Styled Checkboxes
A guide to creating custom-styled checkboxes using CSS to enhance form design beyond default browser elements.
Font guide for webmasters
A guide to selecting and implementing fonts for websites.
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wow factor
A collection or guide focused on creating impressive, eye-catching elements or experiences that leave a memorable impact.
Xaraya :: Xaraya Theme Competition!
A competition for creating themes for the Xaraya web framework.
stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site
A free stock photography website offering images for creative and commercial use.
Notes on suggesting link styles
This guide explains how to write CSS selectors for styling different link states (unvisited, visited, hovered, focused, and active) in a way that works correctly across browsers with varying CSS support levels. The author recommends using selectors like `:link`, `:visited`, `:link:hover`, `:visited:hover`, and `:link:active, :visited:active` rather than simpler alternatives, detailing why common approaches fail in specific browsers and why the proposed method degrades gracefully. The document includes browser-by-browser compatibility notes, recognizing quirks in Internet Explorer, Opera, and Netscape that would cause incorrect styling if other selector patterns were used.
DaFONT :: Top 100 downloads
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Mandarin Design: Text Tricks
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