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Worth Reading

Jeremy Church asked if you know you difference between REM and EM

Zach Holman shared things only a 90s web developers would remember

Nicholas Cerminara wrote about GitHub’s new text editor Atom

Rian van der Merwe asks what happens when placeholder text doesn’t get replaced?

WP Beginner published a useful introduction to Sass for WP theme designers

Mikael Cho discussed the science behind fonts and how they make you feel

Our own Addison Duvall asked: does a designer's opinion mean more than the user's?

New Resources & Freebies

RowGrid.js – A small, lightweight jQuery plugin for placing items in straight rows

Matter.js – A 2D physics engine for the web

nanobar.js – A very very lighweight progress bars (jQuery not required)

gifplayer – A customizable jQuery plugin to play and stop animated gifs

fontIconPicker – a jQuery plugin that allows you to add an icon picker in forms

Data Img – A tiny jQuery plugin to deal with responsive image delivery

iOS 7 UI Kit (Photoshop Action Set)

iTunes IOS7 UI Kit (PSD)

40 Flat & Solid User Interface Icons (AI & EPS)

100 Line-Style Icons (AI, SVG & PNG)

400+ Vector Outline Icon Set for Designers/Developers (PSD)

…and finally…

Inspiring Examples of Logo Sketching