Brio Group
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Free fonts we love
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Font selection is a huge part of graphic design, and picking a suitable font for a project is paramount. It also helps if you have a handy reference point of fonts, and that those fonts are available for use. We love a free font as much as the next designer, so as a little treat we…
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The above the fold myth
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We are familiar with above the fold in newspapers, where the most important news story is located in the upper half of the page. Not so long ago, the same rule applied to web development, where website designers attempted to cram all key information and calls to action in an upper part of a screen…
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The Ideal Length of the Internet
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Have you ever wondered how long your blog should be? Just because you have 140 characters in Twitter, should you use them all? Yes and no are the answers you’re looking for (respectively), and Buffer Social have put together this great infographic for understanding the optimum character and word count required for the most effective…
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The TaggedPDF Difference
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We’ve been working pretty closely with our friends at TaggedPDF and they mentioned that, as accessibility experts, they were often asked three key questions: What is a tagged PDF? How is it different to a standard PDF? Why do I need it? Unless you’ve used a screen reader to access a PDF or the internet,…
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One card to rule them all
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About a year ago we got very excited about Coin, a single digital card that could replace debit, credit and gift cards. Every male Brio team member got all wide eyed and fidgety about the potential for only having one secure card in their wallet. Here’s a video about it so you too can get…
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Meerkat vs Periscope
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How do you communicate with your audience? If broadcasting a live video sounds like something for you, then it might be time to try Meerkat or Periscope. These two apps work on iOS devices through your Twitter account and stream a live broadcast of events, news or whatever tickles your audience’s fancy. Live streaming gives…
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The New Word(Press) On The Street
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We love WordPress. It’s such a simple CMS with all the tools necessary to make your website shine. The fact that it is so easy to use from a developer, creative and user perspective has made it the leading web software that it is today. Naturally we were pretty chuffed when we heard that WordPress…
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Is your content accessible?
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Our new friends at TaggedPDF.com.au have just launched their new website (yay!) and specialise in turning your pdf’s into accessible documents that can be read by screen readers for the visually impaired. Many government agencies, institutions and universities are making accessibility a priority after leading universities in America were sued for discrimination. Harvard and MIT…
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Lorem what?
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Lorem Ipsum, or better known as filler text to designers, is regularly used to give the feeling of populated text in documents while in the midst of design. It allows creative teams to understand how copy will look and generally be replaced and removed with real content. Because no one uses this language, it’s unlikely…