Finding the right font is the most important part of book design. It not only plays a key role in improving readability but also helps make your book look more professional. In this collection, we're featuring some of the best fonts you can use to design books. It's always good practice to use at least […]

Laravel eCommerce Group Buy allows the admin to give the liberty to their customers to buy the product at a discounted price. For buying the product at a discounted price, the logged-in customer can create a group or can get it by joining the existing group. The details of another customer can be seen by [...]

We humans are quite adept at quickly assessing whatever happens to be in front of us. I'm sure it has something to do with that ancient "fight or flight" response.... The post Why We Unfairly Judge Other Designers appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

We have collected 50 Bootstrap templates for you to use freely in your next project. We have purposefully omitted all of those starter, straightforward and unstyled templates from this round-up,... The post 50 Free Bootstrap Templates & Themes appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Watermarking is an important part of making a piece of art your own. Whether you're an artist, designer, or photographer, you should have a unique watermark to protect your work from being stolen. If you don't have your own watermark yet, creating one from scratch is very easy. In this short guide, we'll show you […]

This week's Designer News - No 584 - includes Emoji Cloud SVG Library, Glassmorphism UI, Why Should Type Be Fluid, Anyway?, CSS Auditing Tools, Awesome Cheatsheets, Why Does a Design Look Good?, System Fonts Don't Have to Be Ugly and so much more! The post Weekly News for Designers No 584 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

An hour ago I created a new release of Magic Cloud. This is a humungously large and important release, with hundreds of stabilising fixes and features. However, its primary feature that I suspect a lot of my regular readers will love, is that Magic now automatically wires up foreign keys for you. This implies that if one of your tables have a foreign key pointing into another table, it will display one string field from the other table, instead of just some dumb guid or auto incremented integer value. To understand the feature, take a look at the following screenshot. The "film_actor" table from Oracle's Sakila database is a many to many link table between an actor and a film. Such many to many table allows you to populate a film with as many actors as you wish. In previous releases of Magic, the above "film_id" was simply displayed as an integer value. Displaying such foreign keys as their integer or guid value is of course meaningless, and this required manual work after the CRUD generator had done its job in order to get things right and useful. Typically this also required a lot of manual work unfortunately. In this release Magic Cloud will read your foreign keys as it generates your backend, and allow you to declare which lookup field you want to use in the foreign table to display such fields. To understand look at the following screenshot that is taken from the CRUD generator in the Magic Dashboard.

The key to creating authentic looking vintage artwork-whether it’s logos, packaging, or T-shirt designs-is selecting the perfect font combinations that represent the lettering style from previous centuries. The fonts featured in this collection aren’t just individual typefaces, they are collections of several font styles that perfectly complement each other. Each collection contains a vintage brush […] The post The Best Fonts For Creating Vintage Logos and Designs appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Every designer wants their designs to stand out and look different. Yet they keep using the same fonts in their projects. The only way to create unique designs is to think outside the box and leverage new trends. So what if you used a 3D font in your next design project? 3D fonts aren't new […]

When we think about a slider, we usually imagine an image gallery slider, or the infamous carousel, or perhaps off-canvas navigation, with the overlay sliding in from the side. However, this article is not about those kinds of sliders. Instead, we'll look into the fine details of designing better slider controls for selecting a value or a range of values. Think of price range sliders, 360-degree-view sliders, timeline sliders, health insurance quote calculators, or build-your-own-mobile-plan features. In all of these use cases, a slider is helpful because it allows users to explore a wide range of options quickly. For precise input, a slider can never beat a regular input field, but we can use a slider to nudge our customers to explore available options and, hence, aid them in making an informed decision. After a close look at perfect accordions and date and time pickers, let's turn our attention to sliders, with do's and don'ts and things to keep in mind when designing one. But first, we need to figure out when a slider makes sense in the first place. (Please note: that article is quite large, and contains many animations and videos.)The post Designing The Perfect Slider appeared first on Smashing Magazine.