Inspo
Web Design and Frontend Dev-related Inspirational Resources
Typography
These are the links for nice typeface other than Google Fonts. (Google Fonts are great but tends to be over-used.)
Open Source:
- Studio Feixen: Studio Feixen is a swiss based design company. They are committed to creating good looking stuff to make the world a better place.
- Extraset: Extraset is an independent Swiss type foundry established in Geneva.
- Collletttivo: Collletttivo is an Open-Source type foundry established in 2017 in Milan, a network of people promoting the practice of type design through mutual exchange and collaboration.
- Bad Type Club: Bad Type Club is an experimental type foundry established in 2017, located in Covington, Kentucky.
CLosed Source:
- Adobe Fonts: Who doesn’t go to Adobe Fonts.
- Pangram Pangram: Pangram Pangram was established in 2018. Located in Canada. Their PP Editorial Old is used in this site!
- Grilli Type: Grilli Type is founded in late 2009, located in Switzerland. I love GT Alpina.
- Heofler&Co: Who doesn’t admire Hoefler.
- Klim Typ eFoundry (Klim): Founded in 2005 and is based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Pitch is a cute family.
- Lost Type: Operated and Managed by Riley Cran (and originally co-founded with Tyler Galpin), Lost Type is the first of its kind, a Pay-What-You-Want type foundry.
- Margot Lévêque: Margot Lévêque is a French Type Designer and Type Strategist currently based in New York. Three typefaces area available, and they are elegant and legible.
- MCKL: Los Angeles-based independent type foundry and design studio founded in 2012 by Jeremy Mickel. Some of their typefaces are available on Adobe fonts.
Color Palette
Color palette generator and sites to help check color pairing.
Generator
Go-To Platform
These are the links to platforms to check out what is out there.
Curated Platform:
Awards site:
My Picks
These are the links for inspirational websites I found.
- Swiss in CSS animation: Done by Jon Yablonski
- Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R): Transition animation.
- Jordan Gilroy: Nuanced animation, transition experience.
- Anastasia Vakarenko: Feel-good animation, color control.
- Felix Hieronimus: Delicate typography, hover effect, animation.
- Antoine Wodniack: Bold color & typography, smooth animation & cadence.
- Steven Hanley: Big, bold case study.
- Demilade Olaleye: Print texture on text.
- Francesca Moura: Case study cadence.
- Druhin Tarafder: Fun transition experience and hover effect.
- Rumsey Taylor: Interactive case study, corresponding text and imagery, and scroll animation. He works for NYT (duh!)
- Smart Business: Stacking/overlapping sections.
- Hoodzpah: Color shifting background, animation, framing.
- Won J You: Animation, typography, bold aesthetic.
- Magneti Marelli 100 anniversary: Scroll animation and beautiful design.
- Nippori Seminar / 日暮里ゼミナール: JP + EN, interesting typography, scroll animation. (Their English is not perfect.)
- Ao Dai: This is really cool. Shout out to Vivian!
- Schultzschultz: Strong bold visuals. They have custom made free-to-use browser-based tools as well.
- Web Font Stylebook: Japanese typography on WEB.
- Uncommon Fruits
- Milez: Scroll animation, aesthetic
- Harken: Swiper?