Radiant Orchid is a captivating, magical, enigmatic purple that has a harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones. It is an expressive, creative and embracing purple—one that draws you in with its beguiling charm.
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I call these my “funky san serif” font collection, just because they don’t quite fit into the button-up society of the San Serif and Serif families, or the grace of the scripts. They’re just, for a lack of better word, funky!
As designers, we can never have “too much” of a color inspiration. Here are a few tools/sites that can aid in the pursuit of the perfect color combination! As you will come to see, each of these sites has a particularly strong point; a powerful tool that works exceptionally well for a specific need. And using a combination of them should give you the right resource for any situation when you find yourself lacking in color inspiration.
This is one of the leading free web-based apps for color palette creation. With this tool, you can browse color themes that have already been created, view and store your own creations and upload images to extract color schemes from. It has several interactive and intuitive tools to build color themes, as well as modify existing ones and search, share and rate other designers’ themes within the Kuler community. One of the most convenient features of this app is that it integrates with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (CS6 and CC).
New & Best Feature: You can now grab color on the go through Kuler’s free app for the iPhone. It pulls colors from your surroundings and extracts a series of colors, which enables you to use it on your design program like Photoshop CS6 & CC as an extension!
Here comes the “readable type” of print! (Unlike san serif fonts, which are the choice for legibility on the web). Serifed fonts (also known as the “Roman” typeface) are widely used for body text because they are considered easier to read than sans-serif fonts in print (not a scientific study).
Our naming convention of colors cannot be duller than the primary red, blue and yellow and secondary colors of purple, green and orange. Thanks to the advent of the web and its coloring system (RGB and Hex codes) and Crayola, here are a few more names that can add pizzaz and flash to your color vocabulary.
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Strike while the iron is hot (and still available) until Oct. 30, 2013 @ 11:59 PDT.
Want to learn about Google Analytics (GA) without muddling through it yourself? Here’s the course (created by Google), which I just completed online (for free) and got a certificate to show. Learn it now before GA evolves into Universal Analytics!
Learn how GA works and why it is important to first set up a measurement plan, how to create a GA account: setting up properties, filters, goals, e-commerce tracking, how to collect campaign data, and how to read the reports and what each segmented report can do for your business. (After that, it’s all practice and experimentation to see what fits your business best!)
San serif fonts are one of my favorite go-to fonts when designing because of its clean lines and simplicity. This in turn allows the design it accompanies to shine through instead of overpowering it. Here are a few new san serif fonts that are worth looking into and adding to your font vault. What’s more, these are FREE fonts, and we know nothing beats FREE!
nb: One solid font family – Nanami – on sale too
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