Stampaxx

Undeniably beautiful. And original too.

Stampaxx is a wonderful set of icons. Free to download it in .psd and .ai format.

FitText

Hey, typography lovers, this one is for you:

FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.

FitText, what a fantastic idea!

Ideal Sans

Ideal Sans is the newest font from Hoefler & Frere-Jones and it looks ideal indeed.

Take a look.

Ideal Sans comes with 48 styles. Each one is simply great.

On Dribbble

I joined Dribbble several months ago but I became a player last week.

Today I submitted my first shot, Reposado, which is going to be a theme for Tumblr and for Wordpress.

I owe a big “thank you” to my friend Gerasimos (the link will send you to a Greek website) who invited me there.

REM for font size

This one is very interesting. It hasn’t got to do with the particular stage of sleep or the music group.

Instead:

CSS3 introduces a few new units, including the rem unit, which stands for “root em”.

Jonathan Snook explains the dirty details.

Animatable

Animatable is a tool. Which helps you create CSS3 animations.

What? Are you sure?

Animatable is the easy way to create CSS3 animations and advertising for Webkit browsers on any platform or device — including Android, BlackBerry, iOS and WebOS.

Visit Animatable and see for yourself.

Thoughts on art and design

The world of art and the world of design do not stand away from each other. On the contrary:

We perceive something as aesthetically beautiful if it meets a certain criteria. Often, the criteria here is our recognition of order. We see intentional symmetry or maybe even a chaos of shapes with a nicely balanced color scheme and perceive art (sometimes even the noticeable lack of these things is also an artistic statement). We are using what we instinctively know about design to shape how we see art. In other words, design seems to be more basic than art.

A great read.

Adapt.js

What is Adapt.js?

Adapt.js is a lightweight (777 bytes minified) JavaScript file that determines which CSS file to load before the browser renders a page. If the browser tilts or resizes, Adapt.js simply checks its width, and serves only the CSS that is needed, when it is needed.

We live in the era of responsive design. We need this thing.

The cursor monster

Beware of this voracious cursor monster!

In fact this is all about a powerful CSS3 experiment. Which happens to be very funny too.

New and powerful CSS techniques

Smashing Magazine today publishes one of these mashups that made it so popular.

It must take too much time to gather all these resources, not to mention to absorb them. Powerful New CSS Techniques and Tools is a great article!