It’s almost Valentine’s Day, so this latest collection is a billet-doux celebrating the best of the web this month.

As independent type foundry Colophon joins Monotype, I catch up with Colophon’s co-founder Anthony Sheret to chat about the state of the industry.

rom a small bed & breakfast opened in the founder’s rented house, to a billion dollar multi-national hospitality company — one thing that is crucial to their success has been design.

Are you ready for the worldwide Creative Cloud price hike?

At some point in a designer’s career, the age-old question is asked: “Should designers code?” My direct answer for people who design software interfaces is yes.

A new Gmail login display announced that Google will be revamping its look

The logo is the letters “TTPD” linked together and people on X, formerly Twitter, have shared their thoughts on what it looks like. “Is she launching a private-equity firm,” X user @chrisstanton27 wroteand, at the time of writing, it had been viewed more than 2.7 million times and received over 68,000 likes.

Pixel-art.ai: purpose-built to produce pixel-art with pixel-perfect precision. Provide the program with a prompt and it will present a picturesque portrayal, perfectly pixelated. Plus, there’s a provided pixel painter to polish pieces perfectly.

Ideally, aesthetics and functionality would merge seamlessly in digital design, but that isn’t always the case. Here, we discuss when to prioritize one or the other for the optimal user experience.

When Airbnb announces something new, it’s the result of months of hard work, thinking, and testing.