The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2021/09/16

doodleipsum.com

Doodle Ipsum

A free tool for devs to quickly find illustration placeholders. You can set the style, size, bg, and fx, and get an embedded code right away!

designerfund.com

Embedding Design into the Fiber of Fintech

What makes design at Stripe so special? Designer Fund talked to current & former designers for a window into some of its successes (and failures).

kottke.org

The Winners of the 2021 Small World Photomicrography Competition

Nikon has announced the winners of the Small World Photomicrography Competition.

typography.com

Hoefler&Co & Monotype.

I’m pleased to announce that today, Hoefler&Co is joining the Monotype family.

bram.us

The Future of CSS: Cascade Layers (CSS @layer)

When authoring CSS we have to carefully think about source code order, selector specificity, and the use of !important.