
Featured image of How to Design Fonts book by Blaze Type available at [Lulu.com](https://www.lulu.com/shop/l%C3%A9on-hugues-and-matthieu-salvaggio-and-blaze-type/blaze-type-how-to-design-fonts/paperback/product-5z5829.html?page=1\&pageSize=4)

## Links of the week ending 24 May 2024

[Emoji Recently Added, v16.0β](https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts-16.0/emoji-released.html)

[How to Design Fonts: Has Blaze Type created the most accessible typography guide?](https://www.creativeboom.com/features/how-to-design-fonts/)

[FreeTube - The Private YouTube Client](https://freetubeapp.io/)

[How to make your social media creative more accessible](https://torchbox.com/blog/how-to-make-your-social-media-creative-more-accessible/)

🔥 [AI-driven fundraising webinar by Torchbox - Thursday, June 20 · 12:30 - 1:30pm UTC](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-driven-fundraising-webinar-tickets-909664229197?f24_pid=217e6aaf-5adb-44d8-a0db-ffd2171dee66)

[Graphic design gets a sense of humour in new Netflix campaign](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/netflix-joke-campaign)

[Celebrate the Art of Typography With the Autotype x House Industries Collection](https://design-milk.com/celebrate-the-art-of-typography-with-the-autotype-x-house-industries-collection/)

[Typefaces help brands communicate more than just words](https://www.fastcompany.com/91129729/typefaces-help-brands-communicate-more-than-just-words)

[Spotify launches new bespoke typeface with Dinamo: Spotify Mix](https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/spotify-dinamo-new-typeface-spotify-mix-project-230524)

[Interior designers say these 5 colors should never be paired with white](https://www.homesandgardens.com/interior-design/colors-to-never-pair-with-white)

[Type design in branding: find a brand’s voiceprint to make it truly unique](https://designwanted.com/type-design-branding-brand-unique/)

✨ and,

[xkcd.com - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language](https://xkcd.com/)


Links of The Week

419 - 24 May 2024 (typography, colour and xkcd)


Featured image from the UI component.gallery

## Links of the week ending 27 May 2022

[Designed to be a reference for anyone building component-based user interfaces, The Component Gallery is an up-to-date repository of interface components based on examples from the world of design systems](https://component.gallery/)

[Decentralization, off the shelf design patterns](https://decentpatterns.xyz/)

[Accessible Social - discover how to make your social media content accessible](https://www.accessible-social.com/)

[Giving a damn about accessibility - A candid and practical handbook for designers (PDF)](https://www.accessibility.uxdesign.cc/)

[A new visual universe for Proton (mail, vpn, calendar, drive)](https://proton.me/news/new-visual-universe)

✨ and,

[Intensifying Emoji Generator](https://tholman.com/emoji-intensifies/)


315 - 27 May 2022 (accessibility, component ui and emoji)


Animation of one most important UI animations of all time

## Links of the week ending 5 July 2019

[The 8 most important UI animations of all time](https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/the-8-most-important-ui-animations-of-all-time/)

[Emojicode is a full-blown programming language consisting of emojis.](https://www.emojicode.org/)

[How UX research will up your mobile app design game](https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/ux-research-mobile-app/)

[How to Design an App Icon: the 5 Aspects that Matter](https://tapptitude.com/blog/how-to-design-app-icon-5-aspects-matter/)

[How to Design a Great App Icon for App Store Optimization?](https://www.apptamin.com/blog/aso-app-icon-design/)

[Eye-Catching App Icon Design: How To](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/01/designing-better-app-icons/)

[App Icon Tester - Preview, test, resize and make App Icons for iOS](http://www.appsparky.com/)

✨ and,

[iOS Icon Gallery](https://www.iosicongallery.com/)


164 - 5 July 2019 (emojicode, ux research and icons)


Image of Rick Sanchez’s Szechuan dipping sauce

## Links of the week ending 19 January 2018

[10 designers reimagine Rick and Morty](https://www.invisionapp.com/blog/rick-morty-design)

[The Making of Apple’s Emoji](https://medium.com/@agzmn/the-making-of-apples-emoji-how-designing-these-tiny-icons-changed-my-life-16317250a9ee)

[How To Digest Books Above Your “Level” And Increase Your Intelligence](https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-to-digest-books-above-your-level-and-increase-your-intelligence-a11bd134da13)

[Finding Dead CSS](https://csswizardry.com/2018/01/finding-dead-css)

✨ and,

[Building Production Apps 100% in the browser](https://blog.kentcdodds.com/building-production-apps-100-in-the-browser-a8b5da7faf3)

88 - 19 January 2018 (rick and morty, dead css and apple emoji)


Feature image of Sing For Your Supper (oil on canvas / 110 x 160 cm) by John Fox

## Links of the week ending 3 November 2017

[Inside The Great Poop Emoji Feud](https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/inside-the-great-poop-emoji-feud)

[Soul of a Giant / Jon Fox](http://www.soulofagiant.com/image/stalemates)

[Especially when you have a lot to do, how do you focus?](https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-do-you-focus-cbc3d6d78463)

[developers.at.work Why a Personal Brand is Necessary For Today’s Developer](https://builttoadapt.io/why-a-personal-brand-is-necessary-for-todays-developer-f0f18bfaa033)

✨ and,

[Augmented Reality Calligraphy](https://learncalligraphy.today/)


77 - 3 November 2017 (emoji poop, branding and ar)


Featured image of that weird levitating ska businessman emoji

## Links of the week ending 9 September 2017

[The Secret Ska History of That Weird Levitating Businessman Emoji](http://www.newsweek.com/2016/05/06/secret-ska-history-man-business-suit-levitating-emoji-442192.html)

[Designers: It’s our job to make things less terrible.](https://medium.com/@jasonogle/designers-its-our-job-to-make-things-less-terrible-55f79a7fff69)

[Cloud Storage Face-off: iCloud vs Google Drive vs OneDrive vs Dropbox](http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/icloud-gdrive-onedrive-dropbox/)

[Top 10 JavaScript Shorthands for Beginners](http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/javascript-shorthands/)

[Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/)

✨ and,

[Panda 5 is The Smart News Reader Designers & Developers Will Love](http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/smart-news-reader-designers-developers-panda-5/)

Links of the week ending 8 September 2017

69 - 8 September 2017 (ska emoji, whitespace and cloud storage)


Featured image of DJ Strange

## Links of the week ending 30 June 2017

[DJ Strange](https://twitter.com/suekichiii/status/880398065571516419/photo/1)

[Join the fight to protect our free, open, weird internet](https://vimeo.com/blog/post/join-the-fight-net-neutrality-2017)

[Hellen Jo, Image Comics](https://www.instagram.com/helllllenjjjjjo/) 

[Search Emojis in Gboard Using Doodles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0vg4HUEIyk)

✨ and,

[WhatsApp Launches 3 New Features - Albums, Filters & Reply Shortcuts](http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/whatsapp-albums-filters-reply-shortcuts-ios/)