let's jump right into today's video and i have some really useful free
graphic design resources for you to bookmark and to use in your graphic design workflows
and that begins with this handy tool that helps you choose the right fonts for your project here
that's right you can now streamline that decisive process now i talk a lot on this channel about
shape psychology and also typography psychology it's especially important in branding and logo
design and this tool helps with that decision now this tool allows you to think about the attributes
of the brand so things like how serious or friendly you want the design to be how classic
or progressive and so on if you cycle through the settings and apply them to your clients project
this tool is going to refine the kind of fonts that will work well for your design but of course
you don't need to use the exact fonts it shows it might just simply give you the kind of idea of the
typeface style you want to be looking for and also down here at the bottom you can select things like
just serif or sans-serif and so on now this next one is useful for those who work with ui and ux
design projects but also for the average graphic designer too now we can look through various
different models of smartphones and also other apple gadgets and we can find out the crucial
details about the screens and a lot more too so we're talking about things like resolution
the ios that is running on that model but also importantly things like the size of key areas
on the screen such as the status bar other status bars and the notch sizes we do also
have some access to other information such as ppi values aspect ratios contrast etc etc again this
is going to be super helpful for those of you who do work on website and app design projects
and you can even compare models and opt for a zoomed version on the screens too
in the top right corner but next let's look at some high quality svg patterns
using a free tool so this tool allows you to make some really cool svg patterns totally for free
let's go ahead and select a fill here as opposed to a stroke and then whack up the color choices to
four so then you head into a pattern that you like the look of and you play around with the settings
here of how much you want to zoom into the pattern a vertical and horizontal shifting the angle and
also the amount of colors you want to use also of course the kind of colors that you want to use
but the really neat thing is that you can download your pattern in high quality svg files totally
for free give this one a try yourself and import some really cool patterns into your next project
but the next free graphic design resource in today's video has so much quality
information it's pretty amazing so basically you need to either select a color or input the hex
color code of your color choice and right off the bat we have some basic initial information here
showing us things like the complementary color of your choice the grayscale version and also the
exact makeup of the rgb and cmyk versions below that we can see the names of the closest colors
to your choice as well as the closest pantone which is helpful in some instances but this is
just the beginning here below you can find every single possible value that you could ever imagine
that resembles your color in different formats and you can easily just copy this information
but below that we have some lovely gradients of the tints the tones and also the shades of your
color choice again with the color codes shown below then some really neat blending swatches
using your initial color and then moving down we have color schemes that you might want to
use with your choice of color so things like monochromatic complementary split complementary
square schemes and so on there's just so many to choose from and here at the bottom we have
the pantone colors that are the closest to your choice and that's just in case the exact closest
match isn't desirable but yeah there's lots of information you can gather from just one color
using this free resource and next we have here 6 000 free icons that you can download and grab
right now they are really well crafted line icons and yes they are totally for free the designer
has kindly given them over on dribble so if you want to show some respect or some love to the
designer you know exactly where to do that the actual download link is taken away from dribble
though and how can you really go wrong with 6000 free icons but yeah lastly we're going to finish
up today's video with a little bit of fun this is a game that tests your knowledge of fonts
as a graphic designer you simply just input your name and then you begin to guess which
font you think matches to the font id at the top i'm gonna fast forward my attempts at this game
but i will say this it does get quite a bit tricky as it does pair up fonts that look really similar
there are a few key giveaways that i noticed in my experience as a designer and as things like
the comma on helvetica is really really unique and it does stand out but yeah give this one a try and
see what kind of score you end up getting at the end of the game mine ended up being 1550 and i'm
not sure if that's good or bad but hey it is what it is you can find this game linked down below
along with every other free resource in today's video but if that's not enough for you and you
do want more free resources as a graphic designer i have videos linked at the end of this one that
will take you to more freebies and goodies and until next time guys design your future today
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