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Mono Moment: Slanted's helpful reference guide to magical monospaced fonts

Creative Boom

In design, art, coding – even on our identification documents. A new book published by Slanted celebrates these hardworking fonts and offers a source of inspiration for graphic designers and typographers looking for a helpful reference guide. Monospaced fonts are not just fascinating; they're everywhere we look.

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32 affordable tools to keep costs down when you first go freelance

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Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher each offer a close approximation to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, respectively. Based in the browser, Google Docs is a cloud-based word processor that allows collaborative writing, editing, and sharing of documents in real-time. Reedsy Want to publish your own book?

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10+ Best Desktop Publishing Software (2023)

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Discover the best desktop publishing software in 2023. Desktop publishing software is used to create visual communications, such as brochures, business cards, greeting cards, posters, web pages for professional or personal printing online or on-screen. We’ve reviewed & ranked them for you. Let us discuss each one in detail.

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Documenting API error codes and responses

UX Collective

Designing API error codes and responses Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash What is an error code and a status response? A status code that you get as part of a response indicates whether the request you’ve just sent has been successfully completed. In turn, an error code lets you know that your request has failed.

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Fresh tools to help creatives run their freelance practice in 2024

Creative Boom

Then you'll love Obsidian: a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files, allowing you to quickly capture notes and link between them, visualise connections in a graph view, and publish notes to the web. This recommendation comes from graphic designer Rohit Sharma.

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (February 2024)

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Bundown Bundown transforms Markdown documents by allowing the execution of code in various programming languages directly within the content. Additionally, it supports pretty-printing and syncs code across a wide range of languages, including c , php , and go , offering a versatile platform for documentation and coding.

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Design systems in Figma: how to be more productive

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allowing you to apply them consistently across designs, code, tools, and platforms. And this applies not only to the design but also to the code: since design tokens are stored in JSON form, you can easily synchronize them between the design and the code. For example, you can document everything directly in Figma.