May 2005
Also from Manmade, a really nice Color scheme generator. Much more flexible than the simple one I made 3 or 4 years ago.
UsableType: Web Typography Guide is a great collection of articles on all things typographical for the web, from measurements units in CSS to sIFR. (via)
Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work is an in-depth explanation of why working long hours is ineffective. Ironically, I’m reading this article from work on a holiday because I work too hard. (via)
A collection of instructions and art from late-midcentury Monster Model kits. (via)
GUI / Graphical User Interface is basically a diorama version of the PSD interface, with no obvious reason to exist. The nit-picker in me has to point out that the document window actually floats behind the application menu bar (to my regular chagrin). (via)
This seems obvious enough that someone must have already thought of it, but… Photoshop and Illustrator (and probably most programs) really need variables. For example, if I’m laying out a page and I’ve made 5 elements on the page the same persimmon color, it would be so very sweet to be able to change the color in one place rather than having to go select each element separately and change its color. Is that something you can do with actions?
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Amazon has a new tab style:
