Resources for creators
Art and web design
meyerweb.com
Select two hex codes and generate a spread of intermediates. Good for making palettes. Lightweight self-contained page; can be downloaded and run offline.
2025-11-01
paletton.com
Select a colour (by hex code if desired) and get a congruent palette of adjacent or congruent colours.
2025-11-01
Typefaces
juliamono.netlify.app
A monospaced font 'for scientific and technical computing'. Has many glyphs. Free.
2025-11-02
v3x3d.itch.io
A 14x14 pixel art font with a hand-drawn scribble style. Creator Vexed has many more pixel art fonts and assets on their Itch.io page; this is just my favourite one. I use it on my Skibidi Toilet fan-site. Not free but cheap, and the creator often sells font bundles.
2025-11-02
Illustration and photography-specific
Avoiding Tangents: 9 Visual Blunders Every Artist Should Watch Out For
emptyeasel.com
Useful article that taught me what tangents were.
2025-11-01
Physical materials-specific
thistothat.com
Recommends specific adhesives for gluing one material to another. US-centric; it sometimes recommends brands that don't exist elsewhere.
2025-11-09
Web-specific
webaim.org
Compare two hex codes and check they meet accessibility requirements for readability.
2025-11-01
css-tricks.com
A comprehensive guide to flexboxes in CSS. Flexboxes are so useful for responsive design; I use them on most of my pages.
2025-11-01
css-tricks.com
A comprehensive guide to grids in CSS. I found grids hard to get my head around at first, but they're very powerful. Grids aren't 100% a replacement for HTML tables, but they're much better for layouts (tables have their place for actually displaying tabulated data), and easier to use for this than tables once you get how they work.
2025-11-01
thelcars.com
A webpage template for emulating LCARS (the computer displays seen in Star Trek). Done without any images; just CSS. Includes sound effects. Not something I think I want to use for myself, but I dig that someone made it.
2025-11-01
justaqrcode.com
One-page site that generates a QR-code entirely within the browser; no login or trackers. Can be downloaded and run offline.
2025-11-02
Targetting specific characters with CSS rules
shkspr.mobi
A way to apply CSS styles to certain characters without having to wrap said characters in extra markup. Of limited use case, but fun.
2025-11-01
mat.tl
Demo of how to create a URL shortener using list-item IDs. What the page doesn't make explicit is that there's a bit of inline JavaScript handling the redirects — check the source code.
2025-11-02
whatismyviewport.com
Useful for testing whether your site works in smaller browser windows.
2025-11-02