Free Tool Finds Fonts By Look, Not Name
Designer Dominik Levitsky quietly launched Fontalog, a free database indexing over 3.5 million typefaces that you can search by visual traits — weight, contrast, proportion — instead of guessing a font's name. Creative Boom spotlighted it this week alongside its August typeface roundup.
10 Tricks for Moving 3D Models to the Web
Codrops published a workflow guide on shuttling 3D models between Blender and Three.js (a web 3D library), using AI and Blender's MCP integration to cut down on export headaches. It's aimed at anyone who builds a scene in Blender and wants it to actually run smoothly in a browser.
Two-Person Studio Just Rebranded Calendly
Smith & Diction — a small, husband-and-wife-run branding studio in Philadelphia that's also worked with Perplexity and Superhuman — designed Calendly's new identity: a rippling "C" mark meant to show how one shared link can change the direction of a whole business. The internet promptly noticed it also resembles a toilet bowl.
Global Young Creatives Award Closes Its Regular Window Today
The One Club's ADC Young Guns 24 — a global competition for creatives aged 30 and under — hits its reduced-fee entry deadline today, August 27, with a final deadline of September 24, 2026. It's one of the industry's most recognized early-career honors, judged by a global jury.
Solo Dev Rebuilt Mario 1-1 Pixel-by-Pixel — For Free
A developer working through the "20 Games Challenge" spent 45 days rebuilding Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 from scratch in Godot (a free, open-source game engine) — recreating every sprite pixel-by-pixel except the audio. Creative Bloq covered the project this week.
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