Design tutorials and tips
Color and accessibility
- Choosing Color for Accessibility: blog post from Tara Koger, Ohio State
- Color Theory for Non-Designers: blog post from Angela Gunder, University of Arizona
- Colorable Text Demo: a super cool way to gauge color accessibility for web / screen
- Signal vs. Noise: Color as a Wayfinding Tool: blog post from Tom Osborne, Viget
- Color Contrast for Better Readability: blog post from Tom Osborne, Viget
- Coolors: color palette generator
- Colorable Matrix Testing: tool to test the contrast accessibility of many colors at once
- Adobe Color CC: Color palette builder from Adobe
- Color Tinter-Shader: a cool tool to help locate tints and shades
- Color: a color matching game.
Type / Font
- A Visual Guide to the Anatomy of Typography from Orana Velarde, Visme
- Font Pair: pair Google Fonts together
- 20 Perfect Font Pairings from Creative Bloq
- Font Squirrel: free fonts!
- Dafont.com: more fonts!
- Losttype.com: even more fonts!
Design Sets / Templates
- Slides Carnival: free slides templates
- Accessible Syllabus: Resources for creating accessible syllabi - including suggestions for images, text, rhetoric and course policies. A MERLOT Classics Award for Exemplary Learning Material - Teacher Education, presented at OLC Innovate 2017.
Dessert!
Check out All the Free Stock for links to free images, fonts, illustrations, patterns, templates, etc.!