This Week’s Tabs

BETTER EMAIL BRAULIO from Thundertiger on Vimeo.

Some fun posters, cards, and stick­ers with great type — Fifty Five Hi’s

Type Fight — Two let­ters enter, one let­ter leaves.

Colin Tierney — Awesome port­fo­lio with some great lettering

84 high qual­i­ty scans of wood type alphabets

How well do you know your brand blues? (And other hues)

Harpoon — Freelance finan­cial plan­ning and met­rics looks promis­ing, along with a good newslet­ter to other free­lanc­ing articles.

5 Signs It’s Time to Make the Switch From Employee to Freelancer (via Harpoon newsletter)

Good arti­cle, even bet­ter design. This is web jour­nal­ism tak­ing advan­tage of tech­nol­o­gy to tell a story.

I’m think­ing about run­ning my own Dropbox-style serv­er with ownCloud. Another promis­ing piece of soft­ware to check out.

Christmas is right around the cor­ner, maybe you need some free fes­tive icons.

Two javascript plu­g­ins for draw­ing charts — chart.js uses HTML5 can­vas while Pizza takes an unordered list and pro­duces an SVG

Typesense is a sim­ple, respon­sive and content-centric WordPress theme from Mathieu Mayer-Mazzoli.