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Color Contrast for Better Readability
March 3, 2015 - Are you checking color contrast in your design for optimal readability? Learn more from @troz's simple method.
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Color Matters
Picture a grayscale web—like black and white television of the mid-twentieth century. It’s hard to imagine, but there was once a time when computer displays only rendered in one color. Sure, computers were usable, but they were also incredibly binary. Today, everything…
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Giving Colors More Colorful Names
October 6, 2014 - If you’ve been following closely, you’ve seen us play with extending the Viget color palette to a full spectrum of colors and grays. Problem Now that we have a whole rainbow it makes referencing difficult beyond hex values. In other words, the colors need an equivalent…
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From Darkness to Light: Color Versatility Using Tints, Tones, and Shades
November 5, 2014 - In my last article, I wrote about how using more specific names can be useful when referencing colors. Several people shared how this is doubly useful when mapping to SASS variables—and I agree. This time around I want to share how to use more specific color names when…
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3 Super Useful Color Tools for UI Design
June 13, 2018 - Learn about 3 useful color tools to assist your user interface design needs.
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Building Accessible Public Health Tools
July 16, 2021 - A look at how we built Vaxfinder – a vaccine locator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – with accessibility in mind.
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How To: Make the Viget Inspire Background
May 30, 2008 - Building the nature-based Viget Inspire background in Photoshop, using stock photos and textures.
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Typography Tuesday: Legibility
June 10, 2008 - What is Typography Tuesday? It is no secret that I love Typography. Typography is the cornerstone of design. In situations that don't afforded the luxury of other graphical elements such as photography or illustration, typography can carry the design. Strip away all the bells…
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Typography Tuesday: Hierarchy
June 17, 2008 - Unlike print, the web is interactive; establishing a visual hierarchy through typography is essential in guiding the user to the information they are seeking online. Visual Hierarchy is the arrangement of elements in a gradual series in order of importance, enticing users to…
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Load Selections with Channels in Photoshop
October 28, 2008 - I was working on a project the other day that took advantage of a technique very similar to the one used in the image above, and I realized that I haven't seen any tutorials online that really explained this process, so I figured I would share it in the case that you're ever…