Weekly News for Designers № 408

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New Resources & Tools

One-Nexus – A front-end boilerplate and UI toolkit built using the Synergy framework, combined with a custom grid system; Kayzen-GS.

fontplop – An OSX/macOS application which takes ttf and otf files and outputs a webfont bundle.

Schnack.js – An awesome, ad-free, open source Disqus clone that comes with a very minimal, hackable code base.

Froala Design Blocks – Over 170 responsive design blocks ready to be used in your web or mobile apps. Based on the Bootstrap library.

Maptalks – A tool that integrates 2D/3D maps together by pitching and rotating 2D maps.

Sketch Emmet – A plugin that gets Emmet HTML abbreviation snippets to be expanded based on layers list structure and naming.

Sitemod.io – A browser extension that lets you modify any website in real-time.

Sketch to React Native – Convert Sketch files into React Native components.

10 Snippets for Creating Unique CSS Background Effects – A showcase of some of the unique ways in which designers are spicing up backgrounds.

10 Retro Video Games Recreated with HTML5, JS & CSS – Check out some CSS/JS/HTML5 shrines to your favorite classic video games.

Naming Things In CSS Grid Layout – Rachel Andrew provides some tips on naming best practices with CSS Grid.

11 Optical Illusions Found in Visual Design – Illusions you might encounter as a visual designer.