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quip iii: 5 Best Web Design References

In Web Design on November 3, 2011 at 7:07 pm

1. Color Scheme Designer:

Provides a great way of putting together a color scheme quickly by letting you tweak colors so that they are properly complemented and generate a palette. It also provides many options for the color scheme, in case the single color default one bores you. Has a neat feature that allows you to export your colors into HTML and CSS immediately, or grab them as XML or text.

2. Kuler:

The Adobe-run Kuler is also a great resource for color schemes. Instead of forcing you to tweak your own, Adobe also provides the most popular color schemes in use so its easy for you to pick. However, it’s a giant pain to get the colors off of the site and more of a pain to tweak them.

Every website needs an awesome font, whether for the heading, logo, or body. That font needs to be free for commercial use, if you plan to take your website anywhere.  Font Squirrel gives the user a collection of fonts they can use anywhere. It also provides the CSS to get the custom fonts onto your site if you need it.

4. CSS3.me:

For the past few years, CSS3 has been all the craze. But it’s still annoying because of its cross-compatibility issues between browsers. Have no fear: this website will get you all of the CSS3 goodness in the form of sliders and pickers, which is then converted into plain old CSS.

5. Favicon Generator:

See the icon next to the name of the website in your browser? Want your own? Favicon Generator will make one for you out of a standard picture file and will provide you with the CSS to get it into your website.


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