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An energetic upright from Type Together, a geometric sans by Lucas Sharp, a neutral sans from Wordshape, a graceful script by Giuseppe Salerno, a family full of character from Exljbris, a good humoured face by OurType, a Japanese inspired family…

Emphasis on typography, roomy widgets, muted color palette, one-colored or blurred background, grid or horizontal stripe layout, inornate graphics, 2d illustrations– all these can be easily attributed to flat style, that recently got its second rebirth. Microsoft’s “Metro” aesthetic has…

Last month we announced that Adobe, in collaboration with Google and FreeType, contributed its CFF font rasterizer technology to FreeType. Today we are happy to let everyone know that the Adobe CFF Engine has been accepted by FreeType and the…

Kim Hatton asked:
“I’ve read your articles on design pricing but don’t see any reference to non-profits. Do you believe that the same design pricing principles apply?”

Photo by billyvoo
There are a few options I think about:

A percentage…

We always hear about the freelancing vs. working for someone else argument.But why are the two ideas always mutually exclusive?I know tons of freelancers who started freelancing on the side of a full-time job and once ends could meet without…

Somewhere around 18% of the web is powered by WordPress. The humble blogging platform has grown into a web-titan of monster proportions. Substantially fewer sites are hosting on WordPress.com — Automattic’s free, hosted solution for WordPress blogs — but it’s…

Going green, whether intentionally as part of a conscious policy on the part of a eco-friendly freelancer or whether automatically thanks to more efficient technological trends, is easier than it has ever been. And today, there are more resources, gadgets…

There are far more unpaid speaking gigs in the world than there are paid opportunities. Even major events like TED don’t pay their speakers. Yet taking an unpaid speaking gig isn’t necessarily a bad idea. The reason that there are…

July 1st marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the bloody battle of Gettysburg in which soldiers from the Union and Confederacy fought non-stop for three days in Pennsylvania. We at SPD value our American history and what better…

Most of us already have seen the keynote from Apple in which they announced the new operating system for their portable devices, iOS 7. As people have been discussing for a long time, Jony Ive’s team flattened the interface and…

Back in January this year jQuery announced a new plugins registry, so now seemed like a great time to write a tutorial combining building a jQuery plugin with my passion – realtime web technologies. Realtime web technologies make it really…

While I love the holiday season and spending time with (most of) my relatives, that magical time of year also includes a lot of things I don’t love—namely, crowded shopping centers, low checking account figures and, most of all, gift…

The definition of minimal design has never changed, and probably never will. It is truly a timeless technique.
Having said that, minimal design does seem to have evolved ever so slightly over the last few years, especially within web design.…

To Read Alone or Not to Read Alone, an #infographic project by Soonyi Goh See it here: http://ow.ly/m8JQo…

Firefox OS… (also known by its codename “Boot to Gecko” or “B2G”) is an open source mobile operating system of Mozilla based on Linux and their Gecko technology. The first version was released last February 2013 with codename TEF and

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