Blackwing x PMA Diana Pencils

Get the E6 ukulele chord diagram and 4 variations. To play the E6 chord, place the index finger on the 1st fret of the top g-string, middle finger on the 1st fret of the C-string, and ring finger on the 2nd fret of the bottom A-string. Let the other string ring open.

When you capture a screenshot on your Mac, it will be saved in the PNG-32 format, with support for 16 million distinct colors and transparency. This means that the screenshot will perfectly capture every pixel on your screen, but having four 8-bit channels for red, green, blue and alpha (transparency) for every pixel makes the file very large. If you're interested, you can verify this yourself using pngcheck.

The first step is to reduce the color palette of the screenshot. This is a type of lossy compression called color quantization, which will reduce the number of distinct colors in the image. The pngquant command line utility is the perfect tool for this job

In 2013, Google released zopfli, which claimed to improve compression by 3-8% compared to zlib. The trade off for this improvement: waiting an extra 1-2 seconds. (There is no decompression penalty when viewing the compressed image).

pngquant 64 --skip-if-larger --strip --ext=.png --force "$1" zopflipng -y "$1" "$1"

One of the biggest problems in building fast loading websites is that a lot of times you’re stuck using third party assets that are — to be brutally frank — utter and total shite. Topping the list of…

This is the official Task styleguide for Taskfile.yml files.

Task is a task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than, for example, GNU Make.

Since it's written in Go, Task is just a single binary and has no other dependencies, which means you don't need to mess with any complicated install setups just to use a build tool.

Wails is a project that enables you to write desktop apps using Go and web technologies.

Consider it a lightweight and fast Electron alternative for Go. You can easily build applications with the flexibility and power of Go, combined with a rich, modern frontend.

Also:
https://fyne.io

Spectrum’s colors are mapped to our design tokens, which are all the values needed to construct and maintain a design system—such as spacing, color, typography, object styles, and animation—represented as data. Our naming decisions for Spectrum leverage industry terminology and commonly known terms whenever possible, so we avoid choosing names for colors that wouldn’t be recognizable beyond the design and development community. We also avoid names that are trendy, subjective, or in languages other than U.S. English.

https://spectrum.adobe.com/page/color-system/
https://spectrum.adobe.com/page/color-palette/
https://uxdesign.cc/how-should-you-name-your-colors-in-a-design-system-3086513476df

A curated gallery of patterns, textures & visuals by awesome designers & illustrators

pollen - book-publishing system

Research means more than fact-checking

When I first used GitHub Copilot, I said it “essen­tially tasks you with correcting a 12-year-old’s home­work … I have no idea how this is prefer­able to just doing the home­work your­self.” What I meant is that often, the focus of program­ming is not merely producing code that solves a problem. Rather, the code tends to be the side effect of a deeper process, which is to learn and under­stand enough about the problem to write the code. The authors of the famous MIT program­ming text­book Struc­ture and Inter­pre­ta­tion of Computer Programs call this virtuous cycle proce­dural epis­te­mology. We could also call it by its less exotic name: research.

This notebook was created as a learning exercise to teach myself about color theory. I have interleaved some lightly altered prose from a variety of sources which I found informative, which I have made a best attempt to cite in the References section at the end of the notebook. I would like to extend my thanks to the cited authors for their work. Munsell color system Albert Munsell, an artist and professor of art at the Massachusetts Normal Art School wanted to create a rational way to describe color

Munsell color system

A set of rules that will improve your typography 10x.

Use Traditional Point Sizes

Display     Double Canon    4.666
Heading 1   Canon   3.999
Heading 2   Double Great Primer 2.999
Heading 3   Double English  2.333
Heading 4   Double Pica 2.000
Heading 5   Paragon 1.666
Heading 6   English 1.166
Body        Pica    1.000
Fine Print 1    Small Pica  0.916
Fine Print 2    Bourgeois   0.750

Use Serif for Italic Text

Reduce Heading Spacing

The spacing between a heading and a paragraph should be less than the regular paragraph spacing. If regular paragraph spacing is used instead, the heading would seem too far away from the paragraph.

Use Thin Space

Thin Space might be the most underrated HTML entity. It can be used for a name like J. K. Simmons. Without spacing, the J and K would seem too close together; with a regular space, they seem too far apart. Insert a thin space and it is just perfect.

The HTML code is  . You can go even further with Hair Space  

Don’t Use Helvetica, Inter, & Roboto

I think the biggest bang for your buck is to learn OKLCH (or, “Oklachroma”)

• It’s based on human perception
• It can define any color
• the chroma value is a number between 0 and 0.37

Finished! Ready for the next generation of pencil sharpening! I made a full restoration video of the project which can be found at the link below.
https://youtu.be/EZUwunWWCLA

Give your portraits a professional, polished glow in just a few minutes

The pitas you make at home are worlds apart from the stuff you buy in stores, and watching them puff to glorious heights in your oven or on your stovetop is culinary magic at its best. Here’s how we do it.

SVG to EMF Converter - CloudConvert is a free & fast online file conversion service.

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/60996/illustrator-emf-export-loses-precision

Looking for an easy DIY project? You won't believe these before-and-after spray paint photos!

A skeleton boilerplate built with Eleventy. Contribute to josephdyer/skeleventy development by creating an account on GitHub.

Why they don’t read it

I’m a bit of a perfectionist. Several years ago, I believed the best documentation should be nicely formatted, concise, well-illustrated, and written in clear language — and this is not wrong. But all these features make little sense if the documentation isn’t regularly used by those for whom it has been created.

If the team doesn’t react to anything you publish, I have bad news: this documentation (specs, reports, guidelines, etc.) might be already “dead.” Here are several typical scenarios of what may have gone wrong:

1. “Approved and forgotten” — design guidelines were created without team involvement and then approved by stakeholders. After the official presentation, someone checked them out, while others didn’t. Since the guidelines were comprehensive, they looked like a huge reading that would take a lot of time.

2. “A perfect monolog” — amazing design knowledge base inspired lots of team ideas and questions, but commenting was either absent in the tool or disabled. As a result, the discussion occurred elsewhere, in Slack or MS Teams, and soon this chat became a more valuable “source of truth” than the knowledge base itself.

3. “Lone warrior” — design system documentation was detailed and well-structured but didn’t include any links to what other team members (engineers, QAs, UX researchers, etc.) were doing. As a result, it remained just the designers’ resource, and designers had to answer the same repeated questions in the chat or team meetings.

Documentation is a digital product no less than the actual product you are designing and being paid for.