Collective #157
Inspirational Website of the Week: Dogstudio
Our pick this week has a fantastic color scheme, some interesting effects and a great layout.
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Chrome Experiment #1000
Be part of the 1000 Chrome experiments celebration with this awesome interactive visualization.
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Unicoder.js
Convert any text to fancy Unicode alphabet letters. A project by Tim Holman.
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The Nice and Serious UI Icon Set (AI)
96 elegant and clean icons by Nice and Serious.
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Extending the Color Cascade with the CSS currentColor Variable
An in-depth article on the CSS currentColor variable and how to use it by Sara Soueidan on the Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog.
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Mini Camping Icon Set (AI)
A lovely icon set with a camping theme made by Justas Galaburda.
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Free Font: Geomanist Regular
An elegant font family for a clean look designed by Atipo Fonts. The regular style is for free (pay with a tweet or like) and you decide the price for the whole family.
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Create a halftone texture pattern in Illustrator
A tutorial by master illustrator Veerle Pieters on how to create a beautiful halftone texture pattern in Adobe Illustrator.
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Clocks
Donovan Hutchinson's in-depth tutorial on how to create clocks with CSS animations and JavaScript.
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Making and Faking Ordinals on Web Pages
Dudley Storey explains the several possible solutions for showing ordinals on a website.
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Colorable
In case you missed it: Colorable is a color combination contrast tester that helps finding safe color combinations. Made by Brent Jackson.
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Secondary Sliding Navigation
A high quality resource from CodyHouse: a smart seconday sliding navigation by Claudia Romano.
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Stampsy
Besides showing off a stunning website, Stampsy allows for the creation of photo stories, mood boards, visual essays and more.
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Progressive Enhancement is not about JavaScript availability
Christian Heilmann reminds us what progressive enhancement really is.
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Swiper
A modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions and native behavior. Made by iDangero.us.
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Frontend stuff
A curated collection of useful tools and resources related to front-end development. By Moritz Klack.
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Up your CSS-Game with Math
Get creative with the nth-child selector and learn some tricks. An article by Patrick Goethe.
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Modern Flat Preloader Set (GIF, AEP)
12 stunning animated flat preloaders that will give a special touch to your app. Made by Pixel Buddha.
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CSS Space Shooter
Michael Bromley's old-school arcade-style 3D shoot-em-up implemented in CSS and HTML.
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Plyr
A gorgeous looking HTML5 media player with custom controls and WebVTT captions. By the folks from Selz.
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Free Font: XPLOR
Jimmy Kalman designed this unique and playful typeface and offers it for free.
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