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5 Creative Type Foundries You Should Know About

Forget the same safe fonts you see on every other website. These five independent foundries are making typography weird, expressive and impossible to ignore—and they might convince you to never reach for Inter again.

She Taught the Macintosh to Smile

The Macintosh didn’t always smile. Susan Kare gave it one — and with a handful of black pixels, helped transform the computer from an intimidating machine into something that felt human. More than 40 years later, we’re still speaking the… Continue Reading →

Turn Any Photo Into Retro ASCII Art in Seconds

Turn any photo into gloriously retro ASCII art — made entirely from letters, symbols, and tiny bits of chaos. This free tool turns your dog, face, logo, or worst holiday photo into something that belongs on a 1980s terminal. You… Continue Reading →

Canva Just Turned Affinity Into Adobe’s Biggest Free Problem

Canva just made a much more serious play for professional designers: Affinity now brings design, photo editing, and layout into one free app, while Canva connects it to motion, AI, and team-friendly publishing tools.

This Weird 1973 Typeface Just Came Back From the Dead

A wonderfully weird typeface from 1973 has come back to life — and somehow it looks more at home in 2026 than ever. Meet Clippy, the retro font that bends, rocks and wobbles its way into the digital age.

AI Can Build Your UI. Now Figma Can Tell It When It Screwed Up.

AI can now build a UI in seconds, but that doesn’t mean it built the UI you actually designed. A new Applitools integration turns Figma designs into visual baselines, automatically catching the subtle differences AI coding agents leave behind before… Continue Reading →

25 Places Designers Can Still Find Free, Non-AI Images for Commercial Use

AI images are taking over stock libraries, but the human-made web isn’t dead yet. We found 25 places where designers can still find incredible free, real photography, art, and imagery for commercial use.

Adobe Is Turning Photoshop Elements Into a Much Smarter Photoshop Lite

Photoshop Elements is getting a serious AI upgrade, with Generative Expand, AI upscaling and a new assistant that helps you edit simply by describing what you want.

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