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They’re out! Like many of you, I look forward to these coming out each year. I don’t put much stock in surveys but they can be insightful and give a snapshot of the CSS zeitgeist. There are a few little nuggets in this year’s results that I find interesting. But before I get there, you’ll want to also check out what others have already written about it.
Oh, I guess that’s it — at least it’s the most formal write-up I’ve seen. There’s a little summary by Ahmad Shadeed at the end of the survey that generally rounds things up. I’ll drop in more links as I find ’em.
In no particular order…
Josh has way more poignant thoughts on this than I do. He rightfully calls out discrepancies in gender pay and regional pay, where men are way more compensated than women (a nonsensical and frustratingly never-ending trend) and the United States boasts more $100,000 salaries than anywhere else. The countries with the highest salaries were also the most represented in survey responses, so perhaps the results are no surprise. We’re essentially looking at a snapshot of what it’s like to be a rich, white male developer in the West.
Besides pay, my eye caught the Age Group demographics. As an aging front-ender, I often wonder what we all do when we finally get to retirement age. I officially dropped from the most represented age group (30-39, 42%) a few years ago into the third most represented tier (40-49, 21%). Long gone are my days being with the cool kids (20-29, 27%).
And if the distribution is true to life, I’m riding fast into my sunset years and will be only slightly more represented than those getting into the profession. I don’t know if anyone else feels similarly anxious about aging in this industry — but if you’re one of the 484 folks who identify with the 50+ age group, I’d love to talk with you.
Before we plow ahead, I think it’s worth calling out how relatively “new” most people are to front-end development.
Wow! Forty-freaking-four percent of respondents have less than 10 years of experience. Yes, 10 years is a high threshold, but we’re still talking about a profession that popped up in recent memory.
For perspective, someone developing for 10 years came to the field around 2014. That’s just when we were getting Flexbox, and several years after the big bang of CSS 3 and HTML 5. That’s just under half of developers who never had to deal with the headaches of table layouts, clearfix hacks, image sprites, spacer images, and rasterized rounded corners. Ethan Marcotte’s seminal article on “Responsive Web Design” predates these folks by a whopping four years!
That’s just wild. And exciting. I’m a firm believer in the next generation of front-enders but always hope that they learn from our past mistakes and become masters at the basics.
I’m not entirely sure what to make of this section. When there are so many CSS features, how do you determine which are most widely used? How do you pare it down to just 50 features? Like, are filter effects really the most widely used CSS feature? So many questions, but the results are always interesting nonetheless.
What I find most interesting are the underused features. For example, hanging-punctuation comes in dead last in usage (1.57%) but is the feature that most developers (52%) have on their reading list. (If you need some reading material on it, Chris initially published the Almanac entry for hanging-punctuation back in 2013.)
I also see Anchor Positioning at the end of the long tail with reported usage at 4.8%. That’ll go up for sure now that we have at least one supporting browser engine (Chromium) but also given all of the tutorials that have sprung up in the past few months. Yes, we’ve contributed to that noise… but it’s good noise! I think Juan published what might be the most thorough and thoughtful guide on the topic yet.
I’m excited to see Cascade Layers falling smack dab in the middle of the pack at a fairly robust 18.7%. Cascade Layers are super approachable and elegantly designed that I have trouble believing anybody these days when they say that the CSS Cascade is difficult to manage. And even though @scope is currently low on the list (4.8%, same as Anchor Positioning), I’d bet the crumpled gum wrapper in my pocket that the overall sentiment of working with the Cascade will improve dramatically. We’ll still see “CSS is Awesome” memes galore, but they’ll be more like old familiar dad jokes in good time.
(Aside: Did you see the proposed designs for a new CSS logo? You can vote on them as of yesterday, but earlier versions played off the “CSS is Awesome” mean quite beautifully.)
Interestingly enough, viewport units come in at Number 11 with 44.2% usage… which lands them at Number 2 for most experience that developers have with CSS layout. Does that suggest that layout features are less widely used than CSS filters? Again, so many questions.
How many of you were surprised that Tailwind blew past Bootstrap as Top Dog framework in CSS Land? Nobody, right?
More interesting to me is that “No CSS framework” clocks in at Number 13 out of 21 list frameworks. Sure, its 46 votes are dwarfed by the 138 for Material UI at Number 10… but the fact that we’re seeing “no framework” as a ranking option at all would have been unimaginable just three years ago.
The same goes for CSS pre/post-processing. Sass (67%) and PostCSS (38%) are the power players, but “None” comes in third at 19%, ahead of Less, Stylus, and Lightning CSS.
It’s a real testament to the great work the CSSWG is doing to make CSS better every day. We don’t thank the CSSWG enough — thank you, team! Y’all are heroes around these parts.
Josh already has a good take on the fact that only 67% of folks say they test their work on mobile phones. It should be at least tied with the 99% who test on desktops, right? Right?! Who knows, maybe some responses consider things like “Responsive Design Mode” desktop features to be the equivalent of testing on real mobile devices. I find it hard to believe that only 67% of us test mobile.
Oh, and The Great Divide is still alive and well if the results are true and 53% write more JavsScript than CSS in their day-to-day.
This is always a fun topic to ponder. Some of the most-wanted CSS features have been lurking around 10+ years. But let’s look at the top three form this year’s survey:
We’re in luck team! There’s movement on all three of those fronts:
if() conditional to the CSS Values Module Level 5 specification. (Read our notes.)This is where I get to toot our own horn a bit because CSS-Tricks continues to place first among y’all when it comes to the blogs you follow for CSS happenings.
I’m also stoked to see Smashing Magazine right there as well. It was fifth in 2023 and I’d like to think that rise is due to me joining the team last year. Correlation implies causation, amirite?
But look at Kevin Powell and Josh in the Top 10. That’s just awesome. It speaks volumes about their teaching talents and the hard work they put into “helping people fall in love with CSS” as Kevin might say it. I was able to help Kevin with a couple of his videos last year (here’s one) and can tell you the guy cares a heckuva lot about making CSS approachable and fun.
Honestly, the rankings are not what we live for. Now that I’ve been given a second wind to work on CSS-Tricks, all I want is to publish things that are valuable to your everyday work as front-enders. That’s traditionally happened as a stream of daily articles but is shifting to more tutorials and resources, whether it’s guides (we’ve published four new ones this year), taking notes on interesting developments, spotlighting good work with links, or expanding the ol’ Almanac to account for things like functions, at-rules, and pseudos (we have lots of work to do).
No one asked my opinion but I’ll say it anyway: Personal blogging. I’m seeing more of us in the front-end community getting back behind the keyboards of their personal websites and I’ve never been subscribed to more RSS feeds than I am today. Some started blogging as a “worry stone” during the 2020 lockdown. Some abandoned socials when Twitter X imploded. Some got way into the IndieWeb. Webrings and guestbooks are even gaining new life. Sure, it can be tough keeping up, but what a good problem to have! Let’s make RSS king once and for all.
Seriously, a huge thanks to Sacha Greif and the entire Devographics team for the commitment to putting this survey together every year. It’s always fun. And the visualizations are always to die for.
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Brush, script, and calligraphy fonts can add a touch of elegance to your design. They’re stylish, flowing, and full of character! We’ve picked some of the best examples of these typefaces to add to your collection.
Whether you’re looking for a precise and decorative script font or a bold brush typeface that needs to grab the reader’s attention, we’ll have something for you here.
Each of these fonts is beautifully crafted to add character to your next design project, perfect for logos, lettering, clothing design, posters, flyers, quotes, and so much more.
All these typefaces have similarities, but each of these styles is unique in a different way. Before we dive into the fonts themselves, let’s quickly outline the difference between them.
Calligraphic script fonts aim to mimic the style of traditional calligraphy writing. Some have connecting letter designs, and some don’t, but they all have the type of character you’d expect from a hand-written piece of calligraphy.
Script fonts are a traditional typeface choice, referencing back to formally written styling in the 17th century. They have a flowing, connected style, and most characters adjoin another with a connecting stroke. They can roughly be separated into formal script fonts and casual script fonts. The former is more traditional, and the latter mimic a more quickly written, informal style.
These often have a much heavier weight, to look similar to letterforms that have been painted with a brush. They have the same connected, flowing style as calligraphy or script fonts, but their block-style makes them more suited for uses where you need a bigger impact!
Sandsea is a chic-style script font offering unique letterforms in TTF, OTF, and WOFF formats. Ideal for wedding invitations, sophisticated handwritten logos and branding, social media quotes, and more.
Bungalow script font brings a touch of elegance and modern sophistication to your designs. Designed with smooth strokes and artistic characters, this font is ideal for chic logos, stylish branding or elegant invitations. The beautiful calligraphy-inspired curves give a personal and refined touch to your work, making it stand out.
The Smackles brush font packs a punch with its spirited, streetwise appeal. Influenced by the raw energy of street culture, it boasts rough brush strokes for an authentically handmade feel, ideal for bold, eye-catching headlines and titles.
Strong Young is a contemporary brush font offering a sophisticated and modern feel. Its versatile character set also boasts multi-lingual support, making it well-suited for various global projects. Equipped with both TTF and OTF files, it’s a breeze to use.
Radelna is a vintage script font inspired by classic visual design. It’s a versatile and elegant choice for a wide range of creative projects, including branding, invitations, social media posts, and product packaging. The font offers standard glyphs, numerical and functional, as well as alternates and ligatures.
Romeo Bohemian is a textured brush script font that brims with rustic charm. Offering OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats, this versatile typography asset caters to a diverse range of projects, including branding, packaging, magazine layouts, or even social media and wedding embellishments.
Imbue your projects with an urban, artistic flair using Roadpunks, a handbrush typeface renowned for its authentic construction and stylish appeal. Meticulously crafted to replicate natural brush strokes, this font is perfect for designs that require a personal yet rebellious touch.
Honeymoon is a sophisticated script wedding font that adds an air of romance to your creative projects. With beautiful curves and elegant wash tails, it is perfect for crafting wedding invitations or ornate holiday decorations. Featuring alternate characters and multilingual support, Honeymoon offers flexibility and endless design possibilities.
Stayalova is a chic and gentle monoline script font perfect for adding a touch of elegance to your designs. Handcrafted for a fresh and beautiful appeal, it comes in OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats, and includes multiple options such as ligatures, swash, and alternates.
Ralliant is a script handwritten font that offers versatility with uppercase, lowercase, punctuation, ligatures, and alternates. Ideal for a range of uses, from branding and logos to social media posts, packaging design, posters, flyers, and handwritten quotes.
Saekana is a modern script font featuring a stylish calligraphy-style design. The bold and wavy letters of this font make it a great choice for designing logos for modern brands. It includes lots of swashes and borders for decorating your designs.
A clean and creative brush font with a sharp letter design. This font will fit in perfectly with almost all types of title and heading designs, including posters, flyers, book covers, and more. You can use it for product packaging and label designs too.
Scoutdale is a beautiful brush font featuring a set of handwritten-style characters. This font has the perfect look for crafting branding designs for feminine brands, custom T-shirts, greeting cards, and social media posts.
Pink Lemonade is another cute calligraphy-style font with a feminine design. It comes with uppercase and lowercase letters with a beautiful curvy character design. The font is ideal for product packaging and logo design.
This is a free calligraphy font with a modern letter design. This font has a certain elegant look that makes it much more suitable for fashion and lifestyle-themed designs. You can use it for free with personal and commercial projects.
Looking for a brush font with a comic book-style letter design? Then we’ve found the perfect font for you. This font has all the characteristics of a classic comic book font and it comes in solid and textured font styles as well.
Ahmedy is a beautiful brush script font featuring a rustic texture and handwriting letter design. This font is perfect for designing modern titles for posters and flyers. It’s great for social media posts as well.
Roughsweep is another creative brush font with handwritten characters. This font is most suitable for labels and product packaging designs. Just as its name suggests, it has rough textured designs for each letter of the font.
Alegarde is a modern script font with a subtle vintage look and feel. It also has decorative elements in each letter to add more style to its characters. You can use it for all kinds of branding and print designs.
This font has a classic monoline script letter design. It will make your business cards and branding designs look much more attractive. The font is free for personal and commercial use.
This unique brush font comes with a hand-lettered design that is guaranteed to add a personal touch to various types of designs, including greeting cards, website designs, social media posts, and much more.
Suitable for all your design needs, Mahelisa is a modern and stunning calligraphy font ideal for wedding invitations, greeting cards, product packaging, and branding projects. It comes with TTF and OTF and offers multilingual support.
Create gorgeous artworks with Hachitos, a casual and stylish script font that stands out from the daily flood of fonts we see on our screens. It supports more than 100 languages and comes with a wide range of amazing features for you to take advantage of.
Next up we have Raiden King, a distorted brush font that screams horror and fear. It’s a great choice for mystery, Halloween apparel, and other terror-themed branding projects. It works on both Mac and PC, and compatible with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Microsoft Word.
Blink Stones is one of a kind creative and quirky brush font that is perfect for creating book covers, greeting cards, and many other creative designs. The font can also be used to create T-shirt designs and mug prints as well.
Cellarets is a slanted signature script font with clean regular stroke, fun character with a bit of ligatures. To give you an extra creative work, Cellarets font support multilingual more than 100+ language.
Whisper is a stunning hand-lettered dry brush font. This typeface is very unique! It has an unique natural dry-brush feel which will outstand your project with ease! Combine it with its remarkable swashes which you can choose dozens of them!
Husein is natural handwritten Ramadan themed script font, which support OpenType features and includes, numeral, punctuation ligatures, and it also supports multi-languages.
Black Sail is a modern brush script font that comes in both OpenType and TrueType formats. The font is perfect for creating luxury brand logotypes, business cards, invitations, letterheads, and much more.
Galantis is another brush script font that features a unique design of its own. This font also includes OpenType and TrueType formats as well as alternatives and swashes.
Shakila is the perfect font you can use to design modern greeting cards and wedding invitation designs. The font features a creative script design and includes the standards alphabet, numbers, and symbols.
Handoubt is a creative brush script font that features a modern and stylish design. You can use it to design unique website headers, posters, greeting cards, and various other designs.
This bundle includes 2 families of script fonts featuring script and sans serif typefaces. These fonts are ideal for all types of greeting cards, invitations, and other print designs.
Rainy Day is a creative brush font that comes with a unique design. The font is most suitable for book covers, greeting cards, logos, titles, especially related to kids and children.
This creative font comes with a brush design featuring transparent textures and unique ligatures. The font is available in SVG format and requires Photoshop CC or Illustrator CC to function.
Outistyle is a unique script font that features a handwritten design. The font is available in 2 styles, Script and Brush. You can use the fonts to craft greeting cards, posters, banners, product packaging, and more.
Gineva is a hand lettering script font created in the style of a brush font. Which makes it the perfect font for fans of both script and brush fonts. It’s also great for designing website headers, signage, and logos as well.
Cosmodrome is a script calligraphy style font that’s most suitable for designing book covers, posters, music album covers, and much more. It also comes with a web font version for online use.
Shania is yet another calligraphy script font that features a modern design. It also includes 432 glyphs and 194 alternate characters for crafting unique logotypes, greeting cards, logotypes, and more.
This script font features a modern retro design that makes it truly unique and ideal for designing T-shirt designs, signage, posters, and more. It also features 400 glyphs and 190 alternate characters.
A handwritten brush font that comes with a dancing baseline. The font features a design that’s ideal for luxury and fashion related branding and designs as well as wedding and other stationary works.
This brush font comes with a slightly scary design that makes it more suitable for movie posters and Halloween themed designs. It comes in regular and slanted versions of the font, which also includes 240 glyphs.
Yet another brush font for crafting posters, T-shirt designs, and greeting cards. This font also includes 216 Glyphs and comes in two formats, OpenType and TrueType.
This brush font features a bold and a natural look that makes it the best choice for designing website headers, posters, and social media posts. It comes in both sans and sans-serif versions as well.
Axwell is a handmade brush font that comes with a rough natural look. It’s most suitable for modern website header designs, posters, flyer designs, and other print and digital designs.
Sugar Plums is a new hand made font. Available for both personal and commercial use. Download and use Sugar Plums Script for anything and everything. Including over 400 different hand drawn characters for a range of languages and dialects. As well as an Italic version and over 60 hand drawn ornaments, including leaves & flowers, catchwords, frames, doodles and swirls.
Check out this beautiful calligraphy font that you’ll fall in love with in no time. The design is all about class and elegance, and is suitable for a wide variety of projects from quotes and thank you notes to logos and business cards.
Here we have a bold handbrush font that is sure to make an impression. It has a nice, modern design and contains everything you’d expect in a natural textured brush typeface. Best of all, its available for free download.
A massive bundle of over 20 beautiful calligraphy fonts that comes in both OpenType and TrueType formats. Perfect for your logo, card, and wedding invitation designs.
Hydrangea Script is a Regular script font with a clean calligraphy feel for wedding invitation design, logo, cards, etc.
Brayden Family is Family font that include 3 weight on script fonts + 1 Sans serif fonts to create the beautiful combination. This Fonts is Great for Logos, Lettering, Clothing Design, Poster, Label, Quotes, etc.
Give your designs an authentic handcrafted feel. Helena is perfectly suited to stationery, logos and much more. It’s available at $10 for 1 User License.
A gorgeous hand-written script font which you can use perfectly on vintage designs. Fabfelt is available for free without any license restrictions.
Dankita is a beautiful hand painted script that comes with a set of extras. All letters have been carefully painted giving your words a wonderful flow. Dankita can be used for fashion, apparel, stationery, magazines, film, books and marketing.
Salamat is an elegant and sophisticated brush script typeface created by Joluvian & Ale Paul. The strokes are mesmerizing and the font will look perfect on your next design project.
Thunder is a beautiful hand typeface that comes with a set of Beautiful extras. Highly Suitable for a variety of media design , logo, fashion, poster and all design product
Adelina is modern calligraphy script that was painted in watercolor by soft brush. The basic principle of creation is striping of thick and thin lines. It can be used in different goals: romantic cards lettering, t-shirt design, package design and others.
Sortdecai Brush Script is a hand lettered modern brush script typefaces, which is combining the style of classic calligraphy with an modern style. Sortdecai Brush Script is a part of Sortdecai Family.
Streetwear is bold and stylish retro inspired script typeface suitable for logo, poster, branding, packaging and t-shirt design. It looks like 1960s and 70s fashion and sport related typeface, unique and fun at the same time.
Bohemienne us a fun and flirty hand-drawn brush script. It’s tousled and chic, and will add a beautiful touch of handmade love to your projects- use it for wedding invitations, posters, logos and more.
UT Nickel is a geometric script font inspired by the Milwaukee Tool company logo. This complete typeface includes accents, punctuation, mathematics symbols etc. It also contains a few alternates, contextual alternates for some disturbing letters such as r,s,x,z and few ligatures too for all the problematic pairs.
Starstruck is a hand-lettered script with tons of characters. It’s sparkling, charming, feminine, sophistacted, and super swirly and perfect for your next design project.
Intro Rust is one of the biggest packages on the market, including 214 fonts. The font family is a rough version of the famous Intro and includes 4 sub-families – Intro Rust, Intro Script, Intro Head and Intro Goodies. You can download the sample version of 3 fonts including the script version for free.
Imperfect is a bright mischievous lovely modern calligraphy typefaces. Imperfect is good for both short texts and headlines.
Levo is a collaboration with illustrator and graphic designer Rutger Paulusse a.k.a. Gwer. It’s packed with flavour, bold characters and full of his signature straight handles on curves. There are several of lively swashes, alternates and ligatures for you to discover. Perfectly suitable for logo design, packaging and web headings.
Bodega Scrip is a classic decorative copperplate script with a modern twist. It is a display font meant for vintage logos, fashion labels, badges, food packaging designs, especially wine labels.
Brenda Script is a beautiful formal script, contemporary typeface with classic root and elegant touch. Can be used for various purposes.such as logos, wedding invitation, heading, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, lable, news, posters, badges etc.
Dope Script is a rough around the edges, hand-made paint brush font with bags of personality. It comes with a large range of characters including capitals, lower-case, numerals, punctuation, currency and accents.
Mulberry Script is a lovely handwritten calligraphy script. Mulberry is whimsical and modern with a lot of character. This typeface comes with pretty flourished alternate letters, ligatures, extras and watercolor art. Mulberry works great for stationery, letterpress, weddings, magazines and marketing.
Braxton is a brush flavored script free font. One style (Normal) available for direct free download.
Patronia Script is a brush-lettering inspired script typeface that combined thick and thin lines, loose and tight kerning and unique baseline combinations for genuine hand-writing feels. Suits best for almost all of your designing project; wedding invitation, t-shirt design, fancy logotype, etc.
Charming Modern typeface can beautify your design. The pack includes 335 glyphs, with swashes letters and alternative characters, suitable for any design needs, modern design, branding, stationery design, blog design, modern advertising design, invitation, wedding, special events, any lettering needs and more.
The Goodlife type family is a lovely handlettering collection designed by Hannes von Döhren. It contains six different hand drawn fonts with loads of features and a set of extras such as catchwords, arrows, ornaments & more. With this set and a little bit of love and care it is possible to create beautiful “handmade” graphics.
Introducing Ink Blossoms! Sweet Types latest hand drawn typeface. Felt-tipped characters resemble hand-lettered, hand-inked strokes. Use your imagination with this fonts fill to create watercolor, marker, or painted characters.
Country Chic Script is a new hand crafted modern vintage style typeface. She’s chic, she’s sweet, and she’s a little shabby. This script doesn’t miss a single detail in her sweet and shabby lines. Even her ornaments are a bit worn.
Sanelma is a brush script inspired by Hot Rod lettering and sign painting. Sanelma is a very versatile script: It includes two different styles of end swashes, swash caps, small caps, lots of alternate characters and underline option.
Portabello is a sophisticated hand drawn typeface in 3 styles. Hand made characters replicate hand lettered artwork. Just the right amount of messy mixed up with a stylish script, making it completely legible.
A simple and cleanly designed brush font family. It is designed to easily create logos, headlines and text phrases within a blink of an eye.
Inspired by old nature field notebooks, Natura was born out of the passion for new modern hand-calligraphy, designed first with a flexible fountain pen and then digitalized glyph by glyph to get the natural feeling of the dry ink on smooth paper.
Wanderlove is a solo dance of the brush script typeface with the interprentation from the freedomness and humble thing about the natural and beautiful sight from the traveler’s journey. It’s super fit for the design project such as wedding invitation, scrapbook, novel, notebook, gift card, or anything that you need to touch with love.
Ferrine Script is a beautiful handwritten stylish. It’s a multi-purpose font with two alternates (different style in lowercase) lowercase and one uppercase.
Bethlehem is an illustrative typeface designed to be real and natural to look like hand-lettered script. The scattered ink you seen in the preview are also included as alternative characters. So you can play with it to create a beautiful illustrative lettering.
Smitten Typeface is a hand-inked, ‘semi-script’ font with tight kerning, and a fun, imperfect baseline. It’s nice and bold, plus a little gritty – Perfect for creating organic, fluid typography on products, branding, invitations, fliers, posters and more.
Signalist is a contemporary brush script. It is condensed and tight but still legible.
Dankita is a beautiful hand painted script that comes with a set of extras. All letters have been carefully painted giving your words a wonderful flow. It can be used for fashion, apparel, stationery, magazines, film, books and marketing.
Deadhead Script is playful typeface that inspired from brush lettering. Made with high attention to the details that will bring your design to the next level. Suits best for almost all design themes; vintage, modern, gothic, dangdut pantura etc.
Hello Sunshine is a new bright and sunny Script. Hand Drawn letters are both elegant and funky. Contains 2 terminal ornaments to add on to any lower case letter to finish off your word or phrase with a end character swirl.
Abbie Script is a beautiful handwritten script font that has been hand drawn, scanned, and digitized for you to enjoy for free. Abbie Script is available in three different weights (Light, Regular & Bold)
Sabella Script is handwritten stylish copperplate calligraphy fonts, combines from copperplate to contemporary typeface with a dancing baseline, classic and elegant touch. Can be used for various purposes.such as headings, signature, logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, lable, news, posters, badges etc.
A typeface that pays tribute to all letterers that created amazing signs in magazines, walls and windows through the brush lettering during many years, especially in the 50s and 60s. This font is 100% based on the brush traces, it has 2100 glyphs, contextual ligatures from two to four characters and alternates for each ligature.
The Noteworthy Script is a new hand scripted authentic signature style typeface. Use this decorative typeface for stationary, logos, invitations, and more! Available for both personal and commercial use.
Give your designs an authentic brush handcrafted feel. “Rissa Typeface” is perfectly suited to stationery, logos and much more.
Clementine Script is a tangy new hand crafted typeface. Available for both personal and commercial use. This script was inspired and designed with a large chisel felt marker. Bold characters make your logo stand out. Perfect for signage, posters, logos, headlines, and more.
“Sarah and Claire” is a typeface inspired by the letters brush. It’s made in a little untidy way that brings your designs to the level of the wild yet natural look.
Selphia is a new script typeface designed with deliciously taste, so fruity, and milky. But you can be used for various purposes like tagline, t-shirt design, logos, quotes design etc.
Hillda Script is bold, modern, and multi-purpose typeface that combines brush lettering with natural handwriting. It was designed as a display typeface that alternative characters to improve your design. It is suitable for logo, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt, etc.
The Dandelion Soup Script is a new hand drawn script typeface. Available for both personal and commercial use. Download and use The Dandelion Soup Script for anything and everything.
This font is perfect for luxury products and special occasions such a weddings or parties. For added affect have it letter pressed into a beautiful cotton paper stock. It is best used as a headline, however, it more than pulls its weight as body copy.
Happy Day is a bright cheerful lovely modern calligraphy typefaces. It can be used for a variety of purposes including posters, book covers, and even logo designs.
Stubborn Faith is a perfect, bright and wayward font. It’s highly useful for calligraphic and vinyl artwork and can be used for a variety of purposes. The urban nature of this font will be ideal for t-shirts design.
Fadli Script is a script font with a touch of tattoo lettering style. Highly usable to create Custom Logotype, Band Logos, Brand, clothing company, Indie Flyer/Poster or it can be anything.
This is an amazing set of 2 font family with a mono weight cursive script and a complementary subtly rounded sans-serif. Based on popular hand lettered style, give your work that stylish hand rendered look with no effort. It works great with logos, prints, quotes, magazine headers, clothing and all design mediums.
Anemone is a stunning font with 100% hand painting. It’s highly suitable for the design of logos, creation of invitations, greeting card and more.
Layla is a great font hand lettering brush, there are two different fonts, font layla brush and font layla painted, very good for your product advertising, invitation, brocure, poster, etc
Margherite is sweet feminine typeface, hand drawn characters dance decoratively along the baseline. Available for both personal and commercial use.
Blenda Script is a free experimental font inspired by lobster font, a bold vintage script. can be used for various purposes. Such as news, posters, logos, badges etc.
A simple and cleanly designed font that you can use for a variety of purposes. Variane is a perfect font for your next logo or poster design and is available to use for free.
Seren is a retro font that contains 430 glyph, the OpenType feature can be used to create your own custom typo and design. Very useful for t-shirts, banners, posters, etc.
Sant’Elia Script from Yellow Design Studio is a robust modern type family with regular and rough versions in six weights. Its forms are crisp and welcoming with a splash of verve. Alternate versions feature angled strokes that inject drama and energy.
“Ashley Brush Script” was completely handwritten using watercolors and a calligraphy brush. Rough edges and imperfect lines give this brush lettered font a unique and trendy look. Perfect for wedding invitations, adding design accents, and giving your projects a coveted hand-crafted look.
Thirsty Script from Yellow Design Studio is a contemporary script conceived as a marriage of elements from vintage signage scripts, Wisdom Script, Deftone Stylus, and Lobster. The result is a typeface with a ‘new meets vintage’ vibe. It’s friendly with an edge, a mixture of retro script, modern sans serif, and a shot of caffeine.
Octavia Script is another lovely modern calligraphy typefaces, which is combining the style of classic calligraphy with an modern style.
Joella is a bold, clear and full of character script typeface. The thickness of this font makes it great for use with fills such as gold, watercolor, glitter, etc. This font is extremely versatile and can be used for such things as beauty, make up, typographic designs for t-shirts and fashion, etc, organic products or any kind of food and drinks products. There are many possibilities where this font will work very well.
This Handmade Script Bundle contains 4 amazing script fonts that would be very handy for your new logotype, wedding invitation or poster. You can have your hands on this amazing set for just $22.
Featherly is a hand drawn, elegant, modern calligraphic font perfect for wedding design projects, invitations, greeting cards, signatures, watermarks, logos, handwriting and more.
Faith and Glory is a set of 2 hand-painted brush fonts, designed to perfectly combine with one another and allow you to create beautiful typography with a personal touch. It comes with upper and lowercase characters as two separate fonts, punctuation, numerals, and supports international languages. Alternates are available for key characters, you can access these by switching between upper & lower case characters within the 2 fonts.
Last Paradise script font comes with upper and lowercase characters, punctuation, numerals, and supports international languages. It’s perfect for attention-grabbing header text, logos, clothing designs. or anything which needs a bold & loud text with a personal touch.
Fresh Script is hand-painted typeface designed to help you create the look of stunning custom hand-lettering. It comes with upper and lowercase characters, punctuation, numerals, and supports international languages.
Can’t decide whether you need a brush or script font? Then grab this bundle, which comes with 12 different brush and script font collections with a total of 56 vintage-style typefaces.
A modern and a hand-drawn script font with a natural flaw featuring a bonus set of 14 swashes and arrows. The font pack includes 3 unique styles.
This beautiful hand brushed typeface comes with a set of 52 bonus ornaments for adding more style to your design. The font is ideal for your invitation and greeting card designs.
A beautifully free-flowing handmade brush font that includes 3 different font styles. It’s great for your quotes, product packaging, and branding work. According to its creator, the font looks more amazing in all-caps.
A beautiful handwritten style font that makes your text look like a signature. It comes with additional 32 hand-drawn doodles and a separate typeface for all-caps letters.
This font pack comes with both script and sans font styles featuring a vintage design. It can be used for designing various types of graphics including logos, wedding cards, clothing brand logos, and more.
A unique pack of two fonts, an all-caps font and a script font, that will make your book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines, and film designs stand out from the crowd.
A handmade brush font that mimics a marker pen. This font comes in 2 styles and with 12 bonus swashes. It also supports international languages.
Make your text look as if it’s written with a ballpoint pen using this stylish font. This font will go along nicely with your signatures, quotes, badges, labels, and many other types of designs.
This beautiful brush font looks simply perfect for designing a cover for a music album. It comes in 2 font styles, and with 11 swashes, and 4 paint-splatters.
A unique script font for your greeting and wedding invitation card designs. The font also includes 4 bonus standard characters and 7 swashes.
A unique and a modern font featuring 250 glyphs. The style of this brush script font makes it more suitable for designing clothing and fashion brand logos.
This font is just what you need for your logo design, badges, and poster design work. The font comes with swashes, alternative styles, symbols, and more.
A unique hand lettered dry brush script font suitable for all kinds of design work from branding to logos and even wedding and stationery designs.
This is a multi-purpose typeface that has a mixed design of brush lettering with natural handwriting. It also features 350 glyphs and 155 alternatives characters.
A bundle of stylish script and bold style fonts that includes 5 styles. This font will definitely make your logo designs, social media posts, and badge design look phenomenal.
A unique brush typeface for designing realistic hand-crafted artworks. The font comes in both desktop and web font versions.
This modern script font will help add a feminine touch to your design. The font comes with over 400 stylistic sets and swash characters.
A font for designing bold logos, invitations, greeting cards, and website headers. This font pack includes both sans serif and irregular script font styles, as well as 85 catchwords and ornaments.
Whether you’re designing a simple website or building complex web applications, security needs to be a priority from day one. Cyber threats like data breaches, cross-site scripting (XSS), and SQL injections are becoming more sophisticated, targeting every weakness they can find.
Fortunately, various security tools exist to help developers and designers safeguard their projects and ensure users enjoy a seamless and secure experience. This article will explore essential security tools that should be part of every developer’s toolkit.
OWASP ZAP is an open-source tool that identifies vulnerabilities in web applications. It scans for security weaknesses like SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and authentication flaws. OWASP ZAP offers automated and manual testing options, making it useful throughout the development lifecycle. Developers can also integrate it into their CI/CD pipelines, catching vulnerabilities before they reach production.
By using OWASP ZAP early and often, development teams can adopt a proactive approach to security, preventing common attacks from slipping through the cracks. It also provides detailed reports that guide developers on mitigating issues, ensuring every code change aligns with security best practices.
Burp Suite is a powerful tool designed for web application security testing. It provides developers with tools to inspect HTTP requests, manipulate data, and simulate attacks. Burp Suite’s automated scanner detects vulnerabilities, while its manual tools allow security experts to perform deep-dive testing on complex issues.
The platform’s modular nature makes it easy to customize testing processes. With features like Intruder for brute-force testing and Repeater for request manipulation, Burp Suite offers flexibility for both automated and manual testing. These capabilities help developers address logic flaws, broken authentication, and access control issues that automated scanners might miss.
Remote work becoming the new norm, VPNs are essential for developers who need secure access to servers, platforms, and databases from various locations. A reliable VPN ensures that online activities remain encrypted and private, helping prevent data leaks and unauthorized access. By using industry-standard AES-256 encryption and specialized protocols, VPNs provide a secure option for accessing sensitive environments—even on public Wi-Fi.
VPNs can also mask IP addresses, allowing developers to test web applications from multiple regions without compromising security. With a global network of servers, VPNs offer access to geo-restricted content and tools, enabling seamless and secure workflows regardless of the developer’s location. For example, services like AstrillVPN offer features tailored for developers, enhancing both privacy and functionality across diverse use cases.
Nmap is a well-known tool for network discovery and auditing. It helps developers identify open ports, running services, and network misconfigurations that attackers could exploit. Nmap’s comprehensive scans offer insights into the entire network infrastructure, making it easier for developers to secure their systems proactively.
Using Nmap during the early stages of development ensures that potential entry points are identified and secured before launch. It’s also a valuable tool for periodic security audits, keeping infrastructure resilient against evolving threats.
Acunetix is a web vulnerability scanner that fits perfectly into DevOps workflows and offers continuous security monitoring. It automates the detection of vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, and broken authentication and generates detailed reports for quick remediation. Acunetix supports CI/CD integration, making it a great fit for teams practicing agile development.
This tool stands out for its speed and accuracy, which helps developers keep up with tight release schedules while ensuring robust security. Its seamless integration into development environments allows teams to detect issues without slowing their workflow.
Wireshark is a go-to tool for analyzing network traffic and troubleshooting security issues. It provides deep insights into how data travels between a web application and its backend systems, enabling developers to detect bottlenecks, data leaks, or malicious activities. Wireshark captures and inspects data packets in real-time, allowing teams to identify and respond to anomalies quickly.
Wireshark ensures that communication channels remain secure and efficient for developers working on complex web applications. Its robust filtering options allow users to pinpoint specific traffic flows, making it an indispensable tool for network analysis and security debugging.
Metasploit enables developers to adopt an attacker’s mindset by simulating real-world cyberattacks. It provides a library of known exploits that can be used to test applications and systems, helping teams assess how well their defenses will perform under pressure. Metasploit’s penetration testing framework is essential for anyone serious about security, as it gives developers a clear understanding of their application’s vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them.
WAFs act like gatekeepers, monitoring incoming traffic and blocking anything that looks suspicious. By filtering HTTP requests, tools like AWS WAF protect against the most common web attacks, including SQL injection and XSS. For developers managing high-traffic websites or online platforms, WAFs ensure that malicious traffic never reaches the application’s backend, maintaining performance while keeping attackers at bay.
Secure coding practices are the foundation of any secure web application. Developers should sanitize inputs, use parameterized queries to prevent SQL injection and apply access control mechanisms to restrict unauthorized access. Embedding security principles into the codebase from the start ensures that vulnerabilities are minimized.
Regular code reviews, both automated and manual, are essential to catch security flaws early. Developers can also use Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools to identify vulnerabilities during development, keeping code secure throughout the project lifecycle.
GitGuardian is a crucial tool for developers working with code repositories. It continuously scans repositories for exposed credentials, such as API keys, tokens, or passwords that may have been accidentally committed. With GitGuardian, developers can avoid the risk of attackers exploiting leaked secrets, ensuring that sensitive information stays protected. It also provides real-time alerts, enabling teams to act when potential exposures are detected immediately.
Snyk specializes in finding vulnerabilities within open-source libraries and dependencies. Modern web applications rely heavily on open-source components, so Snyk helps developers identify and patch vulnerabilities early. It integrates with DevOps tools, offering continuous monitoring to ensure dependencies remain secure throughout development cycles.
Regular security audits and continuous testing play a crucial role in safeguarding digital environments. By incorporating automated testing tools alongside thorough manual audits conducted at regular intervals, organizations can swiftly identify and address emerging risks. This proactive strategy not only aids teams in adhering to established security standards but also serves as a preventive measure, ensuring that minor security concerns do not escalate into significant incidents that could jeopardize sensitive information or disrupt operations. Such diligence fosters a culture of security awareness and resilience within the organization.
Two-factor authentication is a simple yet powerful way to protect accounts from unauthorized access. By requiring users to provide two verification forms, like a password and a code sent to their phone, 2FA ensures that attackers can’t gain access even if passwords are compromised. Developers should implement 2FA wherever sensitive data or user information is involved, adding an extra layer of security to the application.
Security isn’t something you set up once and forget, it requires continuous monitoring and improvement. Regular security audits help identify vulnerabilities introduced through updates or changes in the infrastructure. Continuous testing ensures that applications remain compliant with security standards and are ready to face new threats as they emerge. With automated scanning tools and periodic manual testing, developers can avoid potential risks and maintain a strong security posture.
In today’s digital landscape, web security is essential for developers and designers building everything from simple sites to complex applications. This article explores top security tools, including OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, and GitGuardian, that help identify vulnerabilities, secure sensitive data, and protect against cyber threats like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. By integrating these tools into development workflows, teams can ensure a seamless, secure user experience and maintain robust defenses against evolving threats. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting, these tools provide the foundation for building safer, more resilient web applications.
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Today, we bring you a unique collection of calligraphy brushes for Procreate and Photoshop that are ideal for everything from wedding invitations and branding to social media graphics.
Whether you’re a professional calligrapher, a designer, or someone who simply loves creating beautiful lettering, these brushes offer the perfect blend of traditional calligraphy charm and modern digital convenience.
With the right brush, you can easily craft stunning hand-lettered artwork, logos, invitations, and more, all from your iPad or computer.
This collection features a variety of calligraphy brushes designed to mimic real brushstrokes, ink, and pen textures, giving you the freedom to explore different styles—from classic script to modern lettering.
Each brush set is tailored for a seamless digital experience, allowing for precise control and smooth flow that feels just like working with traditional tools. Have a look.
This Procreate calligraphy brush pack offers a range of 20 smooth, easy-to-use brushes ideal for crafting calligraphy lettering for logos, illustrations, and more. Convenient for users of all skill levels, these brushes can be seamlessly imported into your Procreate brushes panel via Files App, transforming your iPad into a versatile digital art studio.
This is a set of over 15 brushes specially crafted for the Procreate app. They offer a wide range of colors and neat effects like neon and rainbow in each stroke, making it the perfect tool for design, lettering, digital art, logo creation, and social media. These user-friendly brushes are compatible with Procreate 5X and earlier versions.
This Procreate calligraphy brush pack provides a diverse variety of styles and textures for use in the iOS app, including lettering, calligraphy, ribbon, shawl, Japanese, modern, monoline, signature, spray, fire, and shadow brushes. It is important to note that these brushes are not compatible with Photoshop or other applications.
Firstype Procreate calligraphy brush set is specifically designed for beginners using the iOS app, Procreate, and contains over 20 different types of brushes including Calligraphy, Watercolour, and Blackletter. They are great for expanding your skills in lettering, calligraphy, and typography design. The package also includes six guides for lettering.
Another versatile set of Procreate calligraphy brushes perfect for digital lettering artisans. From refined calligraphy to playful lettering, these Procreate brushes provide a broad spectrum of possibilities, allowing your creative expression to flow effortlessly.
This is a creative Procreate calligraphy brush set that has been carefully crafted for lettering artists seeking to merge the analog and digital realms. The set comes with six uniquely designed brushes, enabling you to create vivid lettering designs, posters, flyers, and more with remarkable authenticity.
A useful Procreate brush pack for anyone interested in calligraphy. With ten distinct, smooth brushes, you can transform your iPad into a canvas for beautiful lettering. This means you get to enjoy the freedom and versatility of Procreate Brushes while achieving stunning lettering effects easily and efficiently.
This is a unique set of Procreate calligraphy brushes designed to replicate the distinct texture of chalk strokes. They offer a wide variety of chalk brushes including coarse chalk, wet chalk, dusty chalk, and chalk eraser. Ideal for lettering and blackboard-like illustrations, they’re perfect for creating educational content, cafe menus, decorations, or lettering artwork.
A fantastic Procreate calligraphy brush set for digital lettering enthusiasts. This versatile brush set enables users to effortlessly create analog-style artwork digitally using iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Whether it’s calligraphic designs, posters, or flyers, these handmade, high-quality brushes offer a limitless scope for your creative expression.
This is a diverse set of brushes exclusively designed for Procreate. Their simplicity makes them a great choice for both beginners and professionals. Excellent for various tasks such as font creation, lettering, logo development, and even designing stationery, the pack includes textured, monoline, calligraphy, and signature brushes. Compatible with Procreate 5 and prior versions, they are ready for you to enjoy.
An exceptionally curated set of 15 high-quality, original brushes designed for diverse styles and effects. Ideal for crafting quotes, lettering, fonts, and graphics, these brushes also come with a bonus Procreate-specific calligraphy brush. The set, which requires an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and Procreate App to use, is designed solely for Procreate.
This calligraphy brush pack offers a unique touch to any digital project. They’re compatible with all versions of Photoshop and feature a high resolution of 2500 pixels. These versatile brushes are not simply tools, but creative assets that can bring a special charm to photos, print templates, and social media content.
The Inktober Photoshop brushes pack is an eclectic set of ink brushes designed for digital artists. Inside you’ll find a diverse range of brushes perfect for line art, calligraphy, painting, as well as specialized effects like spray, wet edge, and grunge. It imitates numerous painting styles, from pen drawings to Chinese art, and includes 15 bonus textures.
A versatile calligraphy brush pack perfect for a variety of projects. These high-resolution brushes (2500 pixels) can be used as clipart or decorative elements in print and web-based designs, as well as on posters and cards. Included is a selection of 50 unique brushes in .ABR format and 50 isolated .PNG images.
Enhance your projects with this underline Photoshop stamp brush pack, compatible with all versions of Photoshop from CS2 to CC. With a generous size of 2500 pixels, these high-resolution brushes can be a game changer in adding ornamental value to photos, print templates, and even social media content.
This Illustrator brush pack is perfect for those who find hand-drawn typography a tad challenging. These tools are excellent for both calligraphy and drawing. Each brush has a unique texture which mimics real-life brush strokes and can be adjusted in terms of color, thickness, and length. The set includes a whopping 74 brushes, each grouped and named for easy usage.
Japan ProBrush is an Illustrator brush pack ideal for creating Japanese-style calligraphy. This pack, compatible with Adobe Illustrator CS3 and above, features 39 high-quality digital, ink, and Asian calligraphy brushes. Included in the pack are 14 ProBrush Japan Brush, 14 ProBrush Japan Digital, and 11 ProBrush Watercolor REALISTIC brushes, providing professional designers, illustrators, and artists with versatility and precision in their digital creations.
This is a collection of creative calligraphy-style stamp brushes you can use in Photoshop to craft romantic typography designs for Valentine’s Day greeting cards and various other designs. The brushes are free to download.
This free calligraphy brush pack for Photoshop includes 55 different brushes for crafting unique calligraphy lettering for your design projects. It’s free to use with commercial projects.
A collection of 15 unique calligraphy brushes for Photoshop. This bundle includes multiple styles of calligraphy designs to make your lettering designs look more authentic.
This is a collection of underline and tail brushes for Photoshop. You can use these to add a creative and decorative touch to your graphic designs. There are 26 different brushes included in this pack.
This is a free calligraphy brush pack for Photoshop that includes the alphabet in calligraphy style. You can use this brush pack to craft beautiful calligraphy lettering without any prior experience in calligraphy art.
Every generation is different in very unique ways, with different habits, views, standards, and expectations. So when designing for Gen Z, what do we need to keep in mind? Let’s take a closer look at Gen Z, how they use tech, and why it might be a good idea to ignore common design advice and do the opposite of what is usually recommended instead.
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When we talk about Generation Z, we usually refer to people born between 1995 and 2010. Of course making universal statements about a cohort where some are adults in their late 20s and others are school students is at best ineffective and at worst wrong — yet there are some attributes that stand out compared to earlier generations.
Gen Z is the most diverse generation in terms of race, ethnicity, and identity. Research shows that young people today are caring and proactive, and far from being “slow, passive and mindless” as they are often described. In fact, they are willing to take a stand and break their habits if they deeply believe in a specific purpose and goal. Surely there are many distractions along that way, but the belief in fairness and sense of purpose has enormous value.
Their values reflect that: accessibility, inclusivity, sustainability, and work/life balance are top priorities for Gen Zs, and they value experiences, principles, and social stand over possessions.
Gen Z grew up with technology, so unsurprisingly digital experiences are very familiar and understood by them. On the other hand, digital experiences are often suboptimal at best — slow, inaccessible, confusing, and frustrating. Plus, the web is filled with exaggerations and generic but fluffy statements. So it’s not a big revelation that Gen Zs are highly skeptical of brands and advertising by default (rightfully so!), and rely almost exclusively on social circles, influencers, and peers as main research channels.
They might sometimes struggle to spot what’s real and what’s not, but they are highly selective about their sources. They are always connected and used to following events live as they unfold, so unsurprisingly, Gen Z tends to have little patience.
And sure enough, Gen Z loves short-form content, but that doesn’t necessarily equate to a short attention span. Attention span is context-dependent, as documentaries and literature are among Gen Z’s favorites.
Designing For Gen ZMost design advice on Gen Z focuses on producing “short form, snackable, bite-sized” content. That content is optimized for very short attention spans, TikTok-alike content consumption, and simplified to the core messaging. I would strongly encourage us to do the opposite.
We shouldn’t discount Gen Z as a generation with poor attention spans and urgent needs for instant gratification. Gen Zs have very strong beliefs and values, but they are also inherently curious and want to reshape the world. We can tell a damn good story. Captivate and engage. Make people think. Many Gen Zs are highly ambitious and motivated, and they want to be challenged and to succeed. So let’s support that. And to do that, we need to remain genuine and authentic.
As Michelle Winchester noted, Gen Zs have very diverse perspectives and opinions, and they possess a discerning ability to detect disingenuous content. That’s also where mistrust towards AI comes into play, along with AI fatigue. As Nilay Patel mentioned on Ezra Klein Show, today when somebody says that something is “AI-generated”, usually it’s not a praise, but rather a testament how poor and untrustworthy it actually is.
Gen Z expects better. Hence brands that value sincerity, honesty, and authenticity are perceived as more trustworthy compared to brands that don’t have an opinion, don’t take a stand, don’t act for their beliefs and principles. For example, the “Keep Beauty Real” campaign by Dove (shown below) showcases the value of genuine human beauty, which is so often missed and so often exaggerated to extremes by AI.
Gareth Ford Williams has put together a visual language of closed captions and has kindly provided a PDF cheatsheet that is commonly used by professional captioners. There are some generally established rules about captioning, and here are some that I found quite useful when working on captioning for my own video course:
On YouTube, users can select a font used for subtitles and choose between monospaced and proportional serif and sans-serif, casual, cursive, and small-caps. But perhaps, in addition to stylistic details, we could provide a careful selection of fonts to help audiences with different needs. This could include a dyslexic font or a hyper-legible font, for example.
Additionally, we could display presets for various high contrast options for subtitles. This gives users a faster selection, requiring less effort to configure just the right combination of colors and transparency. Still, it would be useful to provide more sophisticated options just in case users need them.
On the other hand, in times of instant gratification with likes, reposts, and leaderboards, people often learn that a feeling of achievement comes from extrinsic signals, like reach or attention from other people. The more important it is to support intrinsic motivation.
As Paula Gomes noted, intrinsic motivation is characterized by engaging in behaviors just for their own sake. People do something because they enjoy it. It is when they care deeply for an activity and enjoy it without needing any external rewards or pressure to do it.
Typically this requires 3 components:
In practical terms, that means setting people up for success. Preparing the knowledge and documents and skills they need ahead of time. Building knowledge up without necessarily rewarding them with points. It also means allowing people to have a strong sense of ownership of the decisions and the work they are doing. And adding collaborative goals that would require cooperation with team members and colleagues.
The younger people are, the more difficult it is to distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t. Whenever possible, show sources or at least explain where to find specific details that back up claims that you are making. Encourage people to make up their mind, and design content to support that — with scientific papers, trustworthy reviews, vetted feedback, and diverse opinions.
And: you don’t have to shy away from technical details. Don’t make them mandatory to read and understand, but make them accessible and available in case readers or viewers are interested.
In times where there is so much fake, exaggerated, dishonest, and AI-generated content, it might be just enough to be perceived as authentic, trustworthy, and attention-worthy by the highly selective and very demanding Gen Z.
Good Design Is For EveryoneI keep repeating myself like a broken record, but better accessibility is better for everyone. As you hopefully have noticed, many attributes and expectations that we see in Gen Z are beneficial for all other generations, too. It’s just good, honest, authentic design. And that’s the very heart of good UX.
What I haven’t mentioned is that Gen Z genuinely appreciates feedback and values platforms that listen to their opinions and make changes based on their feedback. So the best thing we can do, as designers, is to actively involve Gen Z in the design process. Designing with them, rather than designing for them.
And, most importantly: with Gen Z, perhaps for the first time ever, inclusion and accessibility is becoming a default expectation for all digital products. With it comes the sense of fairness, diversity, and respect. And, personally, I strongly believe that it’s a great thing — and a testament how remarkable Gen Zs actually are.
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