Animated SVG Radial Progress Bars

Dave Rupert shows us all how to animate radial progress bars in SVG with a tiny script alongside the stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset properties:

For a client project we tasked ourselves with building out one of those cool radial progress bars. In the past, we’ve used entire Canvas-based charting libraries (156k/44k gzip), but that seemed like overkill. I looked at Airbnb’s Lottie project where you export After Effects animations as JSON. This is cool for complex animations, but the dependencies seemed …

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20+ Best 3D Logo Mockup Templates

Choosing the right mockup template to showcase your logo design is a key way to impress your client. Choosing a logo template with depth, texture, and realism can really help set your design apart. Clients want to see how your logo design will look on a finished product. Whether you’re working on a logo design […]
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Ruby Sass to be put to pasture on March 26, 2019

There have long been multiple implementations of Sass. Most notably, the canonical Ruby version, now at 3.5.6. Then there is LibSass, the C++ version, which is at version 3.4 and…

Current LibSass 3.4 should be compatible with Sass 3.4.

LibSass is notable because it powers the majority of Sass ports. Over 30 of them, apparently, including the most popular one: node-sass, which provides Sass for the bajillion projects out there that wanna run an npm-y JavaScript-based …

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IBM Plex

Here’s a free new font for IBM Plex, a family of typefaces by the iconic company of the same name. It’s on Google Fonts if you want to use it.

And we’re talking about a multifaceted font. It touts having:

  • Roman and Italics
  • Four subfamilies
  • Eight weights
  • Support for 100 languages

The site promoting the font is noteworthy in and of itself. It’s been designed to showcase how the typefaces were built as a single, complex system and tells the …

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Torque Toons: GDPR TLDR

The GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, is coming May 25th. It’s similar to the European Cookie Law, but a lot more strict and specific on what data sites can collect from users. In spite of many recent news stories about big companies mining our data, I still find myself oddly dreading designing a site post-GDPR. …
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Catching up on AMP News

The big news since we last talked about AMP is that the AMP team announced that there will be a way for non-AMP sites to make their way into the coveted Google search results carousel. Malte Ubl:

Based on what we learned from AMP, we now feel ready to take the next step and work to support more instant-loading content not based on AMP technology in areas of Google Search designed for this, like the Top Stories carousel.

You …

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A Beginner’s Guide to Content Syndication

If you’re frequently publishing content on your ‘dev blog’ or elsewhere on your site, you’ll obviously want it to reach as many people as possible. This is possible through ‘syndication’ – essentially, getting your content onto multiple blogs at once. Content marketing can positively impact the number of leads you get, so automating the process …
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10 Design Tips for Wedding Cards & Invitations

Wedding season is here. Whether you’re planning to design invitations and cards for your own wedding, or for a client or a friend, there are several wedding card design tips that you’ll want to consider! Wedding invitations present an opportunity to work with some beautiful elements and printing techniques to create a piece of art […]
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