Bi-Weekly Frontend News

Collective #31

Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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No one better than Adobe to move the web forward, not only when it comes to typography: they are offering a free web fonts service in partnership with Google Web Fonts.

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Inspirational Website of the Week

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Cool effects, brilliant typography and an impressive slider make the web presence of Hipstamatic our pick this week.

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Lenticular.js: Tilt-controlled Images

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The creator of Photon, Tom Giannattasio, gives us yet another jaw-dropping experiment: lenticular.js creates tilt-controlled images for mobile devices.

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The Web Aesthetic

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Paul Robert Lloyd tells us to embrace not only the technical side of the responsive web but also the aesthetic one, i.e. the design part.

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Free Font: 400ml

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Marco Terre is offering this beautiful and super-creative typeface for free.

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Payhip: Sell Your eBooks

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With Payhip you can upload and sell your e-books directly to your fans and followers and get paid instantly via PayPal.

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Colorful Tags (PSD)

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Nicola Armellini designed these slick and colorful tags for you to use in your next design project.

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Jetstrap: Interface-building Tool for Twitter Bootstrap

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Jetstrap is a web-based interface building tool for Twitter Bootstrap. You can rapidly build web apps by using HTML snippets and create advanced components easily.

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App Tooltip (PSD)

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A great freebie from Pixeden: a super-slick tooltip or contextual menu designed with iOS apps in mind.

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Wilderness Survival Vectors (AI, EPS, PDF)

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Some versatile wilderness survival vectors by James Viola, maybe for your next Zombie-apocalypse project! Comes in EPS, AI and PDF.

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Getting Started with CSS Custom Filters

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Learn about the futuristic new CSS feature that will be a definite game-changer: CSS custom filters (formerly known as CSS shaders) are a new browser feature for applying user-created visual effects HTML elements. Note that this feature is not yet implemented in most of the browsers (try it in Chrome Canary).

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Free Font: Alt Matey V2

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And here is another creative free font; it's called Alt Matey V2 and was designed by Andreas Leonidou who creates some unique typefaces.

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CSSHórus: CSS Framework

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CSSHórus is a CSS framework by João Firmino for easy and fast development of responsive and mobile websites. It contains 16 grid columns and basic element styles for your web project.

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CSS Flexbox Please!

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Learn about the CSS Flexible Box Layout Model by experimenting with it! Eiji Kitamura created this little web tool that will allow you to edit the flexbox values in see it in action.

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HTML5 Blank WordPress Theme

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HTML5 Blank by Todd Motto is, like the name says, a blank WordPress theme that you can use for rapid WordPress project and theme development.

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Free Font: Beams

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Beams is a capital typeface designed by Altay Dagistan with a futuristic look.

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MobileMozaic

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MobileMozaic is a gallery site that collects the best designed iPhone apps. A very nice feature is the UI pattern filter.

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Kittydar: Face Detection for Cats

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If you haven't used it yet, you might want to: Kittydar will detect the faces of cats in a picture! :)

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Free Font: Pathway

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William Suckling created Pathway, a script-like font with an artistic touch, free to download.

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Free Android Icons

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Coşkun Deniz created these pixel-perfect Android icons in several formats for you to use freely.

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CSSrefresh: Automatic CSS refresh

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CSSrefresh is a small JavaScript file that monitors the CSS files included in your webpage. As soon as you save a CSS file, the changes are directly implemented, without having to refresh your browser.

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Mural.ly: Social Mind Mapping Tool

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If you haven't heard of it yet: Mural.ly is much more than just a social mind mapping tool. It let's you collect, share and collaborate on aggregated data and media.

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Free Font: Civita Light

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Civita is a gorgeous new "Modern Type" designed by Dieter Hofrichter of Hoftype. The light version is for free.

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