Free Fonts Revolution!

Free Font are not always good fonts, the The League of Moveable Type wants to change that. “We’re done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won’t have it. It’s time to raise our standards. Here, you’ll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts. Like any revolution, we aim to make progress, and we need help. If you want to be a part of this free, open-source type movement, you should join us and contribute. If you have any questions about The League or the movement, get in touch.” Free Fonts at The League of Moveable...

Pictaculous Color Palette Generator

I found this wonderful color picking tool at notcot today.  Those smart guys over at mailchimp created an online tool that generates  a  color palette from any photo that you upload.  I tested with a bunch of images and was happy with the results.  It does not show you all the colors used, but seems to average the most common colors and produces the palette from that. A great tool for brainstorming a new project or color matching a project to your images.  You can do the same thing in photoshop by running the cutout effect under the artistic filter, and you can pick how many colors you want to reduce the image to.  After that just use your eyedropper to select the images you want. For the Frank Frazetta image  Pictaculous created this palette. Try it for...