
Featured image of the wearable [Pixel Mirror](https://www.yankodesign.com/2024/07/04/this-crystal-fragment-turns-everything-you-see-into-8-bit-pixel-art-and-its-fascinating/), a crystal that reduces the resolution of what’s behind it – regardless of distance and movement – leaving you with a pixel art of what you are looking at.

## Links of the week ending 12 July 2024

[Accessible form validation from scratch: preparing for validation - tutorial](https://uxdesign.cc/accessible-form-validation-from-scratch-preparing-for-validation-6fc9e5b98d68)

[4 Major Patterns for Accessible Drag and Drop](https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/4-major-patterns-for-accessible-drag-and-drop-1d43f64ebf09)

[6-month free trial of Affinity… even if you’ve tried it before!](https://affinity.serif.com/en-g)

[How to create great UI animations - Emil Kowalski](https://emilkowal.ski/ui/great-animations)

✨ and,

[Pixel Mirror - Turns everything you see into 8-bit pixel art](https://www.yankodesign.com/2024/07/04/this-crystal-fragment-turns-everything-you-see-into-8-bit-pixel-art-and-its-fascinating/)


Links of The Week

426 - 12 July 2024 (accessibility, kanban and pixel mirror)


Featured image of how a monochrome Linux penguin mascot mock-up will look in the new Linux 6.11 update

## Links of the week ending 5 July 2024

[Noel Gallagher's football font makes a mockery of typography, claims design lecturer](https://www.creativebloq.com/design/fonts-typography/noel-gallaghers-football-font-makes-a-mockery-of-typography-claims-design-lecturer)

[Folio: A Simple, Solid, Open-Source Markdown Note App](https://news.itsfoss.com/folio/)

[The best AI note-taking tools for meetings](https://time.com/charter/6987522/the-best-ai-note-taking-tools-for-meetings/)

[Crucible’s Aleissia Laidacker on how to improve web3 user experiences](https://www.blockchaingamer.biz/features/interviews/33065/crucible-aleissia-laidacker-onimprove-web3-ux/)

[The best new logo designs of 2024 (so far)](https://www.creativebloq.com/design/logos-icons/the-best-logo-designs-of-2024-so-far)

✨ and,

[DRM Panic "Screen of Death" To Gain Monochrome Logo Support In Linux 6.11](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Panic-Monochrome-Logo)


425 - 5 July 2024 (logos, note taking and drm panic)


Featured image of from the Beyond Monospace article describing making braces as curvy as they are at the top of the image is a matter of taste

## Links of the week ending 28 June 2024

[Beyond monospace: the search for the perfect coding font](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/beyond-monospace-the-search-for-the-perfect-coding-font) - by Evil Martians

[FiftyFifty Spotlights Typography’s Power to Unite Us](https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/fiftyfifty-typography-exhibition/)

[Typography - Letterform Archive](https://oa.letterformarchive.org/)

[Disorder - Chris Ashworth, Graphic Designer](https://vol.co/collections/disorder)

[Splash of city colours hope to entice visitors](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevvw55vgeko)

[The Euro 2024 logo is packed with clever Easter eggs](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/euro-2024-logo-design)

[I tried colour analysis and it was much harder than it looks](https://www.varsity.co.uk/fashion/27835)

[Rocketicons](https://rocketicons.io/en/icons) - A funny way handling icons

✨ and,

[CoverJunkie - A celebration of creative covers & their ace designers](https://coverjunkie.com/) 


424 - 28 June 2024 (graphic design, typography and coverjunkie)


Featured image from the [Daily Dungeon](https://dailydungeon.net/) browser game. A randomised dungeon crawler with puzzles that changes every day.

## Links of the week ending 21 June 2024

[Threema - Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now!](https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/stop-chat-control)

[Linux Cinnamon 6.2 Desktop Environment Released, Here’s What’s New](https://linuxiac.com/cinnamon-6-2-desktop-environment/)

[The 2024 AToMiC Awards: When font design takes on a life of its own](https://strategyonline.ca/2024/03/05/the-2024-atomic-awards-when-font-design-takes-on-a-life-of-its-own/)

[The best new typefaces for June from leading foundries and designers](https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/top-new-typefaces-for-june-from-leading-foundries-and-designers/)

[From Aptos to Helvetica—here’s how fonts get their unusual names](https://www.fastcompany.com/90929143/from-aptos-to-helvetica-heres-how-fonts-get-their-unusual-names)

[How Generative AI Is Remaking UI/UX Design](https://a16z.com/how-generative-ai-is-remaking-ui-ux-design/)

[Integrating UI/UX Design in Agile Scrum Methodology](https://hackernoon.com/integrating-uiux-design-in-agile-scrum-methodology)

[100+ ways to tell someone goodbye](https://www.are.na/meg-miller/good-sign-offs)

✨ and,

[Daily Dungeon](https://dailydungeon.net/)


423 - 21 June 2024 (privacy, fonts and daily dungeon


Featured image of a teaser image banner of [Omakub](https://omakub.org/), an Omakase Developer Setup for Ubuntu by DHH

## Links of the week ending 14 June 2024

[Omakub - Creator of Ruby on Rails shows off his new Ubuntu setup, and lets you copy his setup with one command](https://omakub.org/)

[Creature Feature: The Oral History of ‘Gremlins’](https://www.theringer.com/movies/2024/6/6/24171434/gremlins-movie-oral-history-gizmo)

[“Big, bold typography is key”: Squarespace’s Brand Design Director on how to make your website stand out](https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/big-bold-typography-is-key-squarespaces-brand-design-director-how-to-make-your-website-stand-out)

[Bauhaus Typography at 100 Tour - Aug 20 at 12:30PM - 1:30PM Aspen, USA](https://www.aspendailynews.com/local-events/?_evDiscoveryPath=/event/2468723--bauhaus-typography-at-100-tour)

[Metallica headlines Fortnite, as it introduces a new music-themed battle mode and fresh concert](https://www.eurogamer.net/metallica-headlines-fortnite-as-it-introduces-a-new-music-themed-battle-mode-and-fresh-concert)

[The illustration library for Trivago is influenced by 00s animated sitcoms](https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/niceshit-trivago-illustration-project-130624)

[Kagaku Manga Survival TV Anime Reveals October 2024 Premiere, Teaser Visual](https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2024/6/13/kagaku-manga-survival-anime-october-2024-release-date-teaser-visual-staff)

✨ and,

[AnimeCon UK 2024 - The UK'S largest Manga Expo - 15-16 June 2024 at the NEC Birmingham](https://animeconuk.com/)

422 - 14 June 2024 (ubuntu, gremlims and animecon)


Featured image of [POLYMONO](https://otherwherecollective.com/poly-mono/) the world's first mega-ligature, mono-space, multi-color shape font.

## Links of the week ending 7 June 2024

[Inspired by the prints of Karel Martens and 8-bit video games, POLY(color) MONO(space) explores the possibilities of what a font can be](https://martens-martens.com/)

[Mother Design's rebrand for Air Up explores the tension between maturity and playfulness](https://www.creativeboom.com/news/mother-air-up-rebrand/)

[Mario Carpe’s Joyful Three-Volume Type & Visual Exploration](https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/mario-carpes-joyful-three-volume-type-visual-exploration/)

[data.to.design Figma plugin - Use your data from Google Sheets, CSV, JSON, Airtable or Notion](https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1133729773197702197/data-to-design-use-your-data-from-google-sheets-csv-json-airtable-or-notion)

[AI-driven fundraising webinar from Torchbox - Thursday, June 20 at 1:30 - 2:30pm GMT+1](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-driven-fundraising-webinar-tickets-909664229197)

[Siteimprove browser extensions - Powerful accessibility checker extension](https://www.siteimprove.com/integrations/browser-extensions/)

[The WCAG Explained - Simplified and actionable explanations of every WCAG 2.2 criteria](https://www.getstark.co/wcag-explained/)

[Cult/UI - Ready-to-use components for your React apps. Shadcn compatible. Styled with Tailwindcss](https://www.cult-ui.com/)

[Puck - The visual editor for React](https://puckeditor.com/)

[HEX to Tailwind](https://hextotailwind.com/)

✨ and,

[Kingdom of Loathing game - a sort of pseudo-mmo kind of thing](https://www.kingdomofloathing.com/)

all posts

426 - 12 July 2024 (accessibility, kanban and pixel mirror)

425 - 5 July 2024 (logos, note taking and drm panic)

424 - 28 June 2024 (graphic design, typography and coverjunkie)

423 - 21 June 2024 (privacy, fonts and daily dungeon

422 - 14 June 2024 (ubuntu, gremlims and animecon)

421 - 7 June 2024 (typography, accessibility and loathing)