It’s a perfectly reductive elegant choice for paragraph type and captions. It also works well writ large, especially with ample letter-spacing and in the lightest version. You can also use it as any mono-space computer font, for writing code.

What makes Supply Mono stand out as an elegant choice is the use of some curves and rounded elements in the font design — this makes the design appear less boxy and clunky compared to some other mono-space fonts. The font comes in five weights making it versatile for a range of projects.

Supply Mono is free for Personal Use. Commercial licenses can also be purchased at their website.

FIND SUPPLY MONO HERE

Art Palette, new from Google’s Art & Culture, goes beyond being a novelty app and can be a useful tool for both artists and designers in exploring and discovering color and its relationships. Like most Google apps, Art Palette is a vast repository of works in a variety of styles and from multiple eras. The selection of images are from collections of artwork and antiques from museums and archives from around the world.

Google Art Palette

Google Art Palette

Google Art Palette

Users can select for complementary or incongruous palettes. When you mouse over a color swatch its hexadecimal value is displayed — this makes it simple to add the colors to a website or mobile project. You can also allow the app to generate color palettes for you or upload an image to glean color from as well.

When clicking through ‘Surprise Me’ the app generates palettes and it seems to gravitate towards warm and earth colors, most probably due to the age of some of the more ancient artifacts in the collection. It seems as if the more varied the palettes and the ones with brighter and saturated colors display more diverse types of artworks and more contemporary choices.

To see the app, just visit https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/artpalette/.

The book is a very small publication created for Tai Tak Takeo Fine Paper to feature Mohawk Superfine printing paper. It has all the other fine print accoutrements also like embossed titles, printed paper edges, and a black hardcover.

Superfine Defined is more than a conversation piece too. It’s designed and conceived by Creative Director Toby Ng around the concept of super fine as in most refined or top quality. The book includes new Hong Kong artists from a variety of creative disciplines sharing their insights on what it means to create work that is the finest.

Artists and designers who get the book can use it as a source of instant encouragement and inspiration; and at the same time they can also learn about and promote the thriving creative scene in Hong Kong.

The Superfine Defined Miniature Book

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from Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawings

A lesser-known fact about Hokusai is that in addition to being a prolific artist he was also a teacher who created educational books about art. An insightful and useful book series he wrote is Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawings. The lessons are broken down into three volumes. Volume one is about drawing basic geometric shapes; volume two explores contour; and volume three analyzes different types of brush strokes and how to apply them.

from Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawings

from Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawings

from Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawings

The lessons are written in Japanese but are also presented pictorially, making them possible to follow for non-Japanese speakers. Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawings is a treasure for any drawing student or professional artist interested in learning the craft from one of the most respected artists of all time.

Volume One: Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing

Volume Two: Quick Lessons in Simplifed Drawing

Volume Three: Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing

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• Get Inspired
• Find Your Audience
• Create Great Content
• Develop Your Style
• Build Effective Habits
• Grow Your Audience

Although nice to read front to back, the ebook’s format makes it easy to jump around and discover nuggets of wisdom. The Perfect Grid includes constructive tips and actionable items that creatives can use immediately to improve the effectiveness of their social media presence. At the same time, the book also explores Instagram as a social and cultural phenomena, so those interested in exploring the big picture view of social media will also find much.

The Perfect Grid is written by Ales Nesetril a 24 year old designer from the Czech Republic who is the Creative Director of STRV and has collaborated on projects featured in Forbes, Vogue, Face Company, and Hype Beast.

Visit The Perfect Grid to learn more and download the ebook.

Colus is the first font created by designer Stan Partalev from Sofia Bulgaria and is offered as a free font from the well-respected foundry Font Fabric. The font has support for over 130 languages making it extremely versatile. It also includes extended Latin characters, localizations, and old style figures. As Font Fabric states, “Colus pro scriptum est!”

DOWNLOAD COLUS HERE

For both budget-conscious freelancers and those with plenty of resources it truly is a top choice for running a business. Today over 90,000 businesses use the app and it’s been featured in publications like Fast Company, TechCrunch, and Quartz.

Some of the best features of the app include:

• Invoices that are automatically generated based on contracts and projects.
• Ability to accept a variety of payment types with reasonable transaction fees.
• Magic tasks that create your to do list based on information you’ve already entered for deadlines and in contracts
• Easy customization too. It’s simple to update or change anything.

To learn and download the app visit www.and.co. While you’re there you may also want to check out and download Welcome to Your Independence their excellent ebook for freelancers for how to be successful in the gig economy.

Osgard Pro is an artful display type that’s both classic and fashion-forward. The typeface blends the bold black letter with the flowing Romanesque style effortlessly. The end result is a high-quality impressive display type excellently suited for book cover design, editorial headlines, posters, and typographic art prints.

The typeface is fully-featured with 1000 swashes, stylistic alternates, contextual alternates, and conjunction ligatures. The type designer has included a separate TTF file with just the swashes, to make it easier to create beautifully ornate compositions.

Osgard Pro is $30 but an edited free version can be found at James’ Behance page.

DOWNLOAD HERE

PixelSnap is a useful new app that simplifies the process of measuring elements and space on web pages. Now you can simply drag and select to find out the scale of anything on a page. So, if you come across a site that has a layout you like you can find out the scale of the modules on the page and get a sense how other designers are scaling buttons, boxes, and text. You can measure the distance between elements and learn about how to use white space in a design as well.

The app also has features like tolerance modes to help it measure nuanced features like gradients and shadows. You can also set up a global hotkey to make quick assessments of scale in a snap. The app supports Retina and is very light-weight so it performs quickly and integrates effortlessly into a designer’s workflow.

The app costs $15 but you can get a $5 discount with the code PRODUCTHUNT at checkout. To learn more visit their website www.getpixelsnap.com.

Advertising design works across mediums and has so many applications. Over time it has become more screen-based as the world has embraced the digital. it’s helpful for designers working today to understand advertising design now in 2018 and how it’s been affected by digital technology and platforms.

That’s why Ogilvy & Mather’s new book is a key read right now for advertisers and advertising designers. Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age, written by Ogilvy chairman Miles Young, includes useful strategies and insights for how to work within the current environment. The book is a sequel to David Ogilvy’s bestseller Ogilvy on Advertising and explores features of the modern marketing era and how to harness the digital in smart and effective ways.

One of the key takeaways from the book is that there has been this long held idea that there is a big difference between digital and traditional advertising. However in today’s world, advertising professionals need to differentiate less and think more about how to apply both and utilize the effectiveness of each in ways that harness their specific potential. In this way modern advertisers can come up with unique and adept strategies for products and brands.

Find Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age at Amazon.