The Creative Box #2 - September 2021
A value-packed newsletter with practical Design tips, tricks, and tools to level up your design!
Hello friend,
Welcome to #2 of The Creative Box, I hope it finds you doing well and striving!
Thank you for the overwhelming feedback for #1! Hopefully, we can replicate the same level of value in this newsletter. As always, all the tips and tools I think are worth sharing that can speed up your creative flow!
Here’s how the newsletter will flow:
Newsletter Summary
3 Useful Tools
3 Quick & Practical Design Tips
1 Awesome & Free To Use Font
3 Useful Tools
Want a new name for a project? Try this. You enter keywords associated with your project and It suggests unique names all around.
Animockup is a great browser tool that allows you to showcase videos or GIFs on mockup! Works best if you have some type of screen recordings in your designs.
A tool that can capture screenshots of web pages, tweets, or any other public website in full-length high-resolution PNG format?!? Uhh, YESS!
3 Quick & Practical Design Tips
Use uppercase for short words
If you have a short phrase or a mini-title, put it in uppercase as they tend to work best. Additionally, add some color to it to add some contrast! But, avoid it in long sentences as it becomes difficult to read.
Keep your sentences short
Keep the length of your paragraphs short. Long sentences = More focus & willpower to read. Don’t make anyone go through that :( Anywhere between 45-75 characters should be good!
Use a complex shape to create contrast
Extreme shapes = Extreme attention
Shape contrast means making notable changes in your shape's physical appearance like adding spikes or squiggles. Use this as a design element or even an image masking in your design
1 Awesome & Free Font To Use
The font for this month is Black Grounds. A perfect font to showcase your artistic and personal side in your designs. Good choice for titles and headlines! Do keep in mind this is a free-to-use font for personal use.
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