A look at the colour trend taking the world by storm
The modern web is full of colour-from subtle to bright ‘in your face’ tones. I’ll be taking a look at the latter. Meet duotone-the hottest colour style of 2016.

Pure duotone & other tonal groupings

Love it or loathe it-duotone is everywhere right now. As the name suggests, duotone is an image made up of two colours, usually vibrant shades are used but you can select more subdued ones if you wish.

It has come to my attention that one of the more noticeable traits in my design work is my willingness to use what is perceived to be an excessive number of typefaces. I’ve seen countless articles written on typeface pairing and systems, and nearly all of them push towards using fewer families in any given design. I’ve seen similar comments made towards my own work, implying that they are pleasing despite the number of typefaces they use.

To help further this exploration, Reas and his colleague Ben Fry (a principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy in Boston) in 2001 developed their own software, called Processing, that bridges the divide between programming and art, making both processes more intuitive.

How’s it going, compadres? This month’s roundup hand-picked from all across the web includes icons, design assets, illustrations, vector artwork, UI kits, some really cool code snippets, fonts, templates, some awesome tools, and much much more.

By developing your taste and ability to identify strengths and weaknesses in designs, you end up setting a high bar for your work.

Invisible space in the story of ‘The Purloined Letter’. Focused on the relationship between events, characters and the signifier

Nice perspective and I love the radio.

Speaking about using sharp angles and shapes, Tokyo-based illustrator Jun Takahashi uses this technique to create geometric sports characters.

Google fonts