Here’s another trio of my favourite creative websites and resources.
This time featuring: Gradients, Colour Palettes and Typography!
Typewolf
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typewolf.com
The Typewolf home page ©Jeremiah Shoaf
This website, as the strapline says, shows you what is ‘Trending in Type’. From the homepage you can get inspiration from real world examples and see what font pairings designers are using.
Typewolf detail page for the Akkurat font ©Jeremiah Shoaf
But! There is so much more to it than that. Click on one of the named fonts and you’ll be presented with a profile page for that typeface. Here you will find a purchase link, a type specimen, fonts that are similar in appearance, the closest matches to be found on Adobe Fonts or Google Fonts, and also a suggested font pair.
Typewolf also has font recommendations by the author, learning resources, and even lists its most popular font profiles which is always interesting.
Color Hunt
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colorhunt.co
Color Hunt landing page ©colorhunt.co
Color Hunt has a huge number of hand-picked palettes to help with your design work. You can search for a base colour or peruse one of the prebuilt collections (these have themes such as pastel, neon, or Christmas).
Color Hunt detail page ©colorhunt.co
Clicking on a palette gives you an expanded view, which shows the colour details and links to similar palettes.
Web Gradients
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webgradients.com
A small selection of the available gradients ©itmeo.com
This is a free collection of 180 linear gradients and very pretty they are! In a click you can copy CSS code to apply a gradient to your website, or get an image file of it. There are also downloadable gradient packs for Sketch and Photoshop.
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Header Image: by fidaolga on Adobe Stock.
