As a web designer, any little tool that helps you accomplish anything that little bit quicker and better are worth their weight in gold. And the great thing about the design community is that there is a multitude of designers that recognize the small resource gaps that we might have and create handy solutions, like the resources I’ve outlined in this post, which fill those learning gaps. Below you will find apps that will clean up your CSS files, tools that will convert Illustrator files to HTML, guides that will help you visualize CSS3 Flexbox Properties, web apps to quickly browse and select Google fonts, and much, much more. All of the tools are completely free, so get ready to start bookmarking!
As a web designer, any little tool that helps you accomplish anything
that little bit quicker and better are worth their weight in gold. And
the great thing about the design community is that there is a multitude
of designers that recognize the small resource gaps that we might have
and create handy solutions, like the resources I’ve outlined in this
post, which fill those learning gaps.
Below you will find apps
that will clean up your CSS files, tools that will convert Illustrator
files to HTML, guides that will help you visualize CSS3 Flexbox
Properties, web apps to quickly browse and select Google fonts, and
much, much more. All of the tools are completely free, so get ready to
start bookmarking!
CSS Stats
CSS Stats is a simple web-based app that visualizes various stats about your CSS files.
HTTTML
With HTTTML you can change your boring, standard markup, to include custom tags with more interesting and unique names.
Purify CSS
Purify CSS is a handy tool that detects which CSS selectors your app is using and creates a file without unncessary CSS.
Email Lab
Email Lab
is an open-source starter kit for HTML emails that uses Grunt, a
command-line build tool, to streamline and simplify the creation of
email templates. The templates can be built with re-usable components
and can be styled using traditional CSS or Sass
Layers for WordPress
Recently reaching the 100,000 download milestone, Layers is a new and open-source site builder for quickly creating WordPress themes.
spaceBase
spaceBase
is a Sass-based responsive CSS framework that can be built upon and
tailored to your requirements. It combines best practices for today’s
responsive web with the core components used on every project.
Font Library
Font Library is an open-source project to tag, organize and make it easier to browse Google Fonts.
.resizr
.resizr
emulates the different screen sizes of many popular devices showing you
how your site will appear and allow you to test media queries.
Libraries
Libraries.io
is a web-based app that helps you find new open-source libraries,
modules and frameworks and also keep track of ones you depend upon.
Libscore
Libscore is an app that scans the top one million sites on the web to collect statistics on JavaScript library
usage.
First Aid Git
First Aid Git is a searchable collection of the most frequently asked asked questions about Git.
Angular Interactive box-model Diagram
A useful app to help you visualize the box-model.
CSS Gradient Animator
CSS Gradient Animator is, as the name suggests, a handy little tool for quickly generating CSS gradients.
localFont
localFont is an web-based Vanilla JS tool that converts font family files into a ready to use solution for localStorage web font caching.
Epic Favicon Generator
Epic Favicon Generator is a tool that will create 20 different favicon sizes for your site, from 16x16px all the way up to 196x196px.
UX Recipe
UX Recipe is a checklist where you discover, choose and estimate your next UX project tools & techniques.
Visual Guide to CSS3 Flexbox Properties
Rather that explaining how the flex properties work, this visual guide focuses on how the flex properties affect layouts.
CSS Font Sizing
CSS Font Sizing explores and compares the various methods of declaring font sizes with CSS.
Typography Cheatsheet
This Typography Cheatsheet, created by Type Wolf, is a comprehensive guide to smart quotes, dashes & other typographic characters.
Device Metrics
Device Metrics is a handy resource from Google Design for checking the screen size, resolution, aspect ratio of many devices.
CSS Ruler
CSS Ruler is a handy web-based tool for exploring CSS lengths.
Unitools
Unitools is a collection of tools, gathered from various sources on the net, for working with Unicode in the browser.
PixelCounter App
Pixelcounter is an open source Windows and Mac application for counting the pixels of your images.
Web Font Load
Web Font Load is a tool that will allow you to install, via the terminal, ALL of Google's Web Fonts at once.
ai2html
ai2html is an open-source script for Adobe Illustrator that converts your Illustrator documents into HTML and CSS.
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