Designer Cleverly Illustrates 5 Key Design Principles Using Free Google Fonts

Composite image by DesignTAXI. Images by Abhishek Garg and featured with permission

“Design principles are the fundamental ideas and elements that can be applied to achieve successful design.”

Freelance web, graphic, and UI designer Abhishek Garg has illustrated five principles of design but with a visual twist. He’s opted for a typographic approach using free Google Fonts.

In his project ‘5 Google Fonts Trends and Combinations’, the Mumbai-based creative covers the concepts: white space; symmetry; contrast; rule of thirds; alignment. Garg offers detailed font formatting information for each style and reveals how it can be achieved.

View his work below and visit the project page for detailed explanations on each principle. Click the visuals to view their enlarged versions.

White Space

Click to view enlarged version. Image by Abhishek Garg and featured with permission

Click to view enlarged version. Image by Abhishek Garg and featured with permission

Symmetry

Click to view enlarged version. Image by Abhishek Garg and featured with permission

Click to view enlarged version. Image by Abhishek Garg and featured with permission

Contrast

Click to view enlarged version. Image by Abhishek Garg and featured with permission

Click to view enlarged version. Image by Abhishek Garg and featured with permission

Rule Of Thirds

Click to view enlarged version. Image by Abhishek Garg and featured with permission

Click to view enlarged version. Image by Abhishek Garg and featured with permission

Alignment

Click to view enlarged version. Image by Abhishek Garg and featured with permission

Click to view enlarged version. Image by Abhishek Garg and featured with permission

[via Creative Bloq, images by Abhishek Garg and featured with permission]

from TAXI Daily News http://www.designtaxi.com/news/392961/Designer-Cleverly-Illustrates-5-Key-Design-Principles-Using-Free-Google-Fonts/

Google is developing a mysterious new mobile operating system called Fuchsia

Google seems to be building a replacement for Android called Fuchsia. Yesterday, they revealed what their new Armadillo user interface looks like (see photo above, courtesy of Ars Technica).

Here’s what we know about Fuchsia so far:

  • It’s written partially in Dart, an open source programming language developed by Google, which compiles to JavaScript
  • Unlike Chrome OS and Android, Fuchsia doesn’t use the Linux kernel. Instead, it has its own microkernel called Magenta.

You may be wondering: what the heck is a microkernel? It’s basically a stripped down version of a traditional kernel (the core of an operating system that controls a computer’s underlying hardware).

This image illustrates some of the tasks kernels manage that mircokernels don’t:

Google hasn’t officially said anything about the purpose of this operating system, so I’ll speculate:

  • Since Oracle’s 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the Java ecosystem (which Android is built on top of) hasn’t been as friendly to open source as it used to be. In fact, Oracle unsuccessfully sued Google for $9 billion last year claiming Android violated Sun’s licenses. Google’s new operating system represents an opportunity for Google to stop using Java all together (and so far, none of Fuchsia’s open source code is written in Java).
  • By moving away from the Linux kernel and focusing all its energy on Magenta, Google may be able to introduce specific features it needs faster than the Linux community — with its more diverse interests — would be able to.
  • Android wasn’t designed with virtual reality or augmented reality in mind. This seems to be where computing is heading. Starting fresh with Fuchsia will allow Google to focus on virtual reality from the beginning.

Here’s a full analysis of Fuchsia (6 minute read)

Here are three links worth your time:

  1. Why I left a big, prestigious law firm, learned to code, and became a product manager at a startup (5 minute read)
  2. How to build complex user interfaces without going completely insane (5 minute read)
  3. How to use JavaScript’s Window object to move, open, close, and resize a browser window (7 minute watch)

Bonus: Someone asked on Quora: “Would you hire a freeCodeCamp camper as a developer?” A manager answered that he has already hired one and plans to hire a second one (1 minute read)

Thought of the day:

“We only see what we know.” — Goethe

Funny of the day:

Webcomic by CampComic.com

Study group of the day:

freeCodeCamp Lagos

Happy coding!

– Quincy Larson, teacher at freeCodeCamp

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How technology from startups like Ravn, Luminance, and Lex Machina are automating the tasks currently done by junior lawyers and paralegals (Jane Croft/Financial Times)

Jane Croft / Financial Times:
How technology from startups like Ravn, Luminance, and Lex Machina are automating the tasks currently done by junior lawyers and paralegals  —  ‘Lawtech’ sifts and summarises data with speed and precision to replace routine tasks  —  Read next … After more than five years at a leading City law firm …

from Techmeme http://www.techmeme.com/170508/p2#a170508p2