Understanding Aspect Ratio Calculator
A practical guide to Aspect Ratio Calculator: what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive aspect ratio calculator.
Design writing for people who already know what design means
Design Blog covers UK design practice at the depth an analysis piece deserves: criticism of real work, studios named and examined, and guides to typographic scale and grid systems written for someone who has already put in a year on the tools. Alongside the writing sit a handful of browser-based calculators for the parts of the job that are more arithmetic than judgement, useful for a first pass, though like any calculator they can give you the wrong answer, so check the result against your own eye before you trust it.
Build a token system with the CSS Variable Architect Check a palette with the True-Contrast Smart PaletteLatest writing
Analysis, criticism and the odd argument, in the order we published it.
Understanding CSS Unit Converter (px / rem / em / vw / vh)
A practical guide to CSS Unit Converter (px / rem / em / vw / vh): what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive css unit converter (px / rem / em / vw / vh).
Understanding CSS Variable Architect
A practical guide to CSS Variable Architect: what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive css variable architect.
Understanding True-Contrast Smart Palette
A practical guide to True-Contrast Smart Palette: what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive true-contrast smart palette.
Three routes into the site
A working tool, a section of criticism and a directory of studios: three different ways to use the site depending on what you came here to do.
Build a token system properly
Set custom properties (CSS variables) up as a design system with structure.
Try the tool →Read criticism with an argument
Long-form writing on rebrands, interfaces and industry decisions that takes a position.
Read the section →Find a UK design studio
A directory of practices working across brand, product and digital design, organised so you can browse by discipline.
Browse the directory →Two tools that take the arithmetic off your plate
Both are built to check the fiddly, measurable parts of a design so you can spend your judgement elsewhere, and like any calculator they can be wrong if the input they're given is wrong.