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.

Magazines are not dead. Especially when they are well designed. Digest and Codex #3 are great examples.

A great behind the scenes by Elliot Jay Stocks on Digest’s typog­ra­phy & grid.

Two great typog­ra­phy Tumblrs — Type Novel and Type Hunting

What level web devel­op­er are you? Find out at Dungeons & Developers

How about cir­cles in web design? First is cir­cu­lar nav­i­ga­tion from CSS transforms.

Then, cir­cu­lar hover effects from CSS tran­si­tions. (via Veerle)

Glitched out jpegs are total­ly a thing right now. (via Sidebar)

How much money is your mil­lion dol­lar idea going to make you? Find out at What do you stand to make?

I was total­ly look­ing for some­thing like this last year. I did­n’t Google the right key­words. Network Link Conditioner

You can always have more icons. 50 Icon Sets with Stroked Icons via Iconfinder.

Macaw Sneak Peek from Macaw on Vimeo.

Want a quick cheat sheet of CSS3 Animations? Here it is.

Speaking of ani­ma­tion, a nice exam­ple of a fixed head­er bar that scales on scrolling.

A genius UI con­cept, move load­ing indi­ca­tors into the action that trig­gered it.

More code — Slide and push menus that appear from off page.

Even more code — Gridism by Coby Chapple. A sim­ple, respon­sive CSS grid.

Matthew Butterick has pub­lished a web-based book — Butterick’s Practical Typography. Great tips (or reminders) of what good typog­ra­phy means. (via Sidebar)

Another Sidebar find — The Hipster Logo Design Guide. Six steps to the per­fect logo.

Similar advice from Webdesigner Depot — 12 Signs You’re a Trendy Designer. Beware…

Are long shad­ows the next phase of flat design?

Heritage UI vec­tors by Ryan Putnam. Really, you should check out every­thing he does. Rype Arts, Vector Mill, Vectips. Prolific would be a good descrip­tive word.

The most min­i­mal­ist WordPress theme I’ve ever seen — Clutterless by One Page Love

Let’s fin­ish with anoth­er video, Underlight — Ale Paul meets Tomás García by Author’s Bay.

Adrift from Simon Christen on Vimeo.

A day in the life of a type design­er — a lit­tle to the left, a lit­tle to the right

Ready to Inspire Conference — design, type, code (also check out last year’s videos)

Pen and ink let­ter­ing — qual­i­ty, robust, serendip­i­ty, tactile

screensiz.es — great ref­er­ence for width, height, den­si­ty, and aspect ratio

430+ FREE sto­ry­board illus­tra­tions — Not for com­mer­cial use, but still a great inspi­ra­tion for sketching

Adam Whitcroft — check out the cou­ple of projects he has released

colourco.de — an awe­some way to build color palettes

Designers Like to Complain — love the tum­blr theme

The Secret Handshake — help­ful, inspi­ra­tional tips for cre­ative individuals

I’ve seri­ous­ly got too many tabs open of things I want to share. So here is a quick list of cool, insight­ful, and/or fun things to check out.

Subtle Patterns Photoshop Plugin — (the robot siren is awe­some, too)

Designing Blogs for Readers — a great reminder for focus­ing on content

Do you real­ly need a free­lance port­fo­lio? — a great reminder for focus­ing on clients

Stacked Font by Denise Chandler — land­ing page extraordinaire

Ductus by Thomas Jockin — this is going to show up on next mon­th’s head­line heads up

100 Pixelated Camera Illustrations — some are a lit­tle blob­by, but there are some real gems

David Bushell’s opin­ion on design­ing in the brows­er vs mockups

BitTorrent Sync — def­i­nite­ly going to find some­thing to imple­ment this

Starters Guide to iOS Design — a well designed overview of what to look for­ward to