
Featured image of scroll bars from Evolution of the Scrollbar website

## Links of the week ending 3 March 2023

[Artist Shantell Martin Releases Her New Signature Style Font Shantell Sans](https://artplugged.co.uk/artist-shantell-martin-releases-her-new-signature-style-font-shantell-sans/)

[14 fonts to fall in love with: trending typefaces that designers adore](https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/14-trending-typefaces-to-fall-in-love-with/)

[My Word! Design Patents on a Typeface](https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a8c317e6-cfbd-4f5c-8626-da2c61d26d0f)

[Product Design vs UX Design: The Differences and Similarities](https://www.wales247.co.uk/product-design-vs-ux-design-the-differences-and-similarities)

✨ and,

[Evolution of the Scrollbar](https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/)


Links of The Week

355 - 3 March 2023 (typography, fonts and scrollbars)


Featured image of a Berlin Wall graffiti typeface

## Links of the week ending 15 November 2020

[Berlin Wall graffiti is made into a typeface to warn how “division is freedom’s biggest threat”](https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/heimat-berlin-voice-of-the-wall-typeface-graphic-design-121119)

[NY Times - So the internet didn’t turn out the way we hoped.](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/14/magazine/internet-future-dream.html)

[The frontend Tooling Survey 2019 - Results](https://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2019-results)

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[Our favourite new Figma plugins - by mono.company](https://mono.company/design/our-favorite-new-figma-plugins/)

Links of the week ending 15 November 2019

184 - 15 November 2019 (typeface, internet and figma)


Featured image of an accessible colour palette

## Links of the week ending 25 October 2019

[Designing accessible color systems](https://stripe.com/gb/blog/accessible-color-systems)

[Visually distorted - when symmetrical UI looks all wrong](https://www.mobilespoon.net/2019/08/visually-distorted-when-ui-looks-all.html)

[Ikea unveils its latest toy creatures based on kids drawings](https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/ikea-sagoskatt-soft-toys-based-on-kids-drawings-illustration-product-design-161019)

[Bringing new life to Figma’s brand](https://www.figma.com/blog/bringing-new-life-to-figmas-brand/)

[Edit podcast audio by editing text.](https://www.descript.com/)

[Variable fonts & the new Google fonts API](https://rwt.io/typography-tips/variable-fonts-new-google-fonts-api)

✨ and,

[This typeface hides a secret in plain sight. And that’s the point](https://www.fastcompany.com/90395836/this-typeface-hides-a-secret-in-plain-sight-and-thats-the-point)

180 - 25 October 2019 (accessibility and colour)


Image of Marvin Visions, a typeface originally designed by Michael Chave in 1969

## Links of the week ending 18 January 2019

[Marvin Visions is a modern and consistent reinterpretation of Marvin, a typeface originally designed by Michael Chave in 1969](https://www.readvisions.com/marvin?)

[Jan Regnart’s Abstract Landscape Paintings](https://www.instagram.com/janregnart/)

[From Twitter “My favorite part of every brand guidelines is the precious “Logo Misuse” section.”](https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/1085678304143716354/photo/1)

✨ and,

[9 ridiculously good examples of kinetic typography](https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/kinetic-typography-examples/)


140 - 18 January 2019 (typeface, painting, twitter and typography)


Image of Optician Sans typeface

## Links of the week ending 8 December 2018

[The UX Blurry-eye Test](https://uxdesign.cc/the-blurry-eye-test-1bd12bc6c3f8)

[Optician Sans - a free font based on the historical eye charts and optotypes used by opticians world wide](https://optician-sans.com/)

[Five Whys of Web Font Loading Performance](https://www.zachleat.com/web/five-whys/)

✨ and,

[The Letter “A”](https://medium.com/design-guidance/the-letter-a-the-architecture-behind-56ed39a0c125)

134 - 7 December 2018 (blurry eye test and loading)


Featured image of turse koozy covers

## Links of the week ending 27 April 2018

[Zak Parsons’ Four Finger Press](https://fourfingerpress.com/collections/all)

[The Feminist Letters is a typeface created to amplify the message advocating for gender equality](http://thefeministletters.com/about/)

[Ten good books on brand design](https://brandpad.io/books/)

[The Brilliant and Absurd Time-Lapse Photography of Pelle Cass](https://www.booooooom.com/2018/04/11/crowded-fields-by-photographer-pelle-cass/)

[Solis for iOS; workflow hardships quashed? Solis for Mac is a Live Design Output that integrates seamlessly with your favourite code editor](https://solisapp.com/).

✨ and,

[Smugmug aquires Flickr](https://www.smugmug.com/together/)

102 - 27 April 2018 (flickr, brand, design and gender)


Featured image of the Braille Neue font

## Links of the week ending 20 April 2018

[Braille Nue - a typeface with Braille built in](http://brailleneue.com/)

[The (Basquiat style influenced) work of Eddie Love](https://www.instagram.com/forthouston/?hl=en)

[UI - Color Contrast Crash Course for Interface Design](https://medium.com/@mds/color-contrast-crash-course-for-interface-design-a69c987abe1b)

[Nine Inch Nails: Gave Up (1992) on YT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpw1SwJRBI)

[Why you should use Google Font Superfamilies](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/low-hanging-design-fruit-why-you-should-use-google-font-superfamilies-1dae04b2fc50)

✨ and,

[American Express is showing off a new logo. Can you tell?](https://www.invisionapp.com/blog/american-express-logo)

101 - 20 April 2018 (braille, typeface and american express logo)


Featured image of a white dot on a black canvas

## Links of the week ending 18 November 2017

[Matthew Feyld | Hunted Projects](http://www.huntedprojects.com/matthewfeyld)

[Metropolis; a modern, free, geometric typeface](https://github.com/chrismsimpson/Metropolis)

[iPhone X: You love your wallpaper. You hate the notch.](https://uncrate.com/article/notcho/)

[Principle of Proximity: Gestalt Theory for UX Design](https://uxplanet.org/gestalt-theory-for-ux-design-principle-of-proximity-e56b136d52d1)

[Extraordinary UX: What’s the line between a well-designed user experience and an extraordinary one?](https://medium.com/@austincoleschafer/extraordinary-ux-whats-the-line-between-a-well-designed-user-experience-and-an-extraordinary-one-f0a472c85968)

✨ and,

[The Morality of Manipulation by author of “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”](https://medium.com/the-mission/the-morality-of-manipulation-c3115fb2bb3d)

Links of the week ending 18 November 2017