![]() ![]() All of your received files are saved straight to your Downloads folder. With Infinit, you can download files the second they’re sent to you. ![]() ‘Infinit lets you easily transfer unlimited files of any size, and to anyone, through a free application for Mac OS X and Windows. ![]() What We Use It ForĪt the design stage of a website (or any digital & print media) within Photoshop, and also on the webpage. It also has a massive library which is constantly added to. It scales for responsiveness and it’s a vector, meaning you can change it to any size and it will keep its resolution without pixelating. Font Awesome allows you to add icons to pages as fonts rather than images, this is pretty cool as it means you can choose / change the size, colour and background colour. Luckily this little gem lives up to its name. Why We Like Itįirstly, we’re suckers for anything with awesome in the title. ‘Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized - size, colour, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS’. It’s also great when a client has seen colours they like on another site, or when they have a logo and want the website’s colours to reflect this. For example, when creating a branded newsletter we can quickly grab the colours from the company’s website or logo and accurately match them on the newsletter. What We Use It ForĪnything where we want to copy or match a specific colour. It’s a simple to use desktop app which quickly & accurately gives colour in variety of formats (inc. Best of all, there’s nothing to install – just download the tiny app and off you go.’ Why We Like It You can use the built-in magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a colour value to copy it directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other apps and out of the way. ‘ColorPix is a useful little colour picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse and transforms it into a number of different colour formats. These are the apps we use to create awesome, consistent digital media. In this article we want to share these with you, in the hope it’ll make your day a little easier too.Īs well as designers and coders, we think anyone who’s ever had to design a newsletter, put up a blog post or send out an eye catching email, will find this useful (but tell us if we’re wrong!). Then whilst we were sat with a client the other day, going through the design process for their new site, we realised we have a go-to list of other ‘shortcut’ tools we use on a daily basis. We’ve shared some of our favourite tools with you in the past, around working collaboratively and working remotely, two things that we’re really passionate about. We love any technology which makes our lives easier (hence the new Virgin pure machine in the office which means we never have to wait for the kettle to boil again!). The good point must be the usability factor it has, really simple and appealing.We’re tech geeks here at Platform Twenty, hardly surprising for a web design and development company. Can also be triggered with a hotkey and the magnification can be smoothly changed from 2x to 11x so you can see the very detail of what your cursor is surrounded by. ColorSnapper (Mac OS X – $4.99 USD)ĬolorSnapper may cost you 4.99 dollars but it’s really complete, the colours are selected and converted to various formats such as RGBA, RGB, Hexadecimal, HSL, HSLA, UIColor and NSColor. There are two apps that I’m going to present in a rather quick fashion, one for the good ol’ Mac OS, and the other one for those who use Windows and thought this wasn’t available. This can be useful for web design, pixel perfect crafting, pixel art, copying user interface elements, checking if gradients are gradients or not, colour verification or whatever other use you may find or want to give to it. Often, when working with projects, or because of mere curiosity, we carve for a different color picking software that allows us to zoom very closely into the pixels of an element to pick a very specific pixel and of course, its colour. ![]()
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