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colorhexa.com

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ColorHexa.com is a free color tool providing information about any color. Just type any color values in the search field and ColorHexa will offer a detailed description and automatically convert it to its equivalent value in Hexadecimal, Binary, RGB, CMYK, HSL, HSV, CIE-Lab, Hunter-Lab, CIE-Luv, CIE-LCH, XYZ and xyY. ColorHexa will also generate matching color schemes such as complementary, split complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic and monochromatic colors.

Flexible CSS typographic scale

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When designing using text, no matter if it’s for print or the Web, one vital thing to do is to ensure that the design stays harmonious in every aspect.

The best way to do so is quite possibly using a so called typographic scale, which means giving text portions precise, regular and linear dimensions, based on the hierarchical relationships they hold with other text elements.

Designing for touch

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Fingers and thumbs turn desktop conventions on their head. Interaction designer Josh Clark explains what you need to keep in mind when designing for mobile touchscreens and compares finger-friendly touch interfaces for iPhone, iPad and Android.

Considerations about CSS Frameworks

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As front-end developers, knowing the instruments of our profession is crucial.

As when developing, as in our daily fights with browsers discrepancies, just a little time should be devoted to all of those activities that are repeated, or that can be standardized.

This is also the case with CSS frameworks. There is plenty of them out there, most of them are solid and useable out of the box, none of them will probably satisfy you one hundred percent.

As good as a framework can be, it’ll always come up short at suiting your specific needs and it’ll likely have to be tweaked a little bit.

One question could then arise: why should’t I build my own, then?

Hello!

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Hello and welcome to the new, albeit temporary, version of The Happy Bit. 2011 has been a great year, full of ideas and inspiration; we want to make 2012 even better, and that’s why, as first step of such project, you find yourself now in what will become our new home. Good design and simple …