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Best custom cool fonts has the coolest collection of original fonts on the web.
We have put together a great collection of cool fonts from freelance designers and typographers who were kind enough to take the time to create these fonts. Be sure to check the usage rights of these fonts before you start throwing them in your projects. If you have created any cool fonts yourself, be sure to lets us know about your font in the comments below. Enjoy the cool fonts!

CUSTOM COOL FONTS

1. HisMannerMild | Download

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Anomalously residing within the pixel-gridded world of Photoshop are a series of tools waiting to break out of the canvas’ inherent squareness. Mastering these tools opens the stage for a higher level of flexibility, full of clean lines and non-destructive editing. Presented here is a guide to help you build proficiency, increase productivity and demystify the elusive world of Paths.

Creation

Pen Tool

The Pen tool (P) – simple to use but difficult to master. It provides a precise method for creating paths, but requires an experienced hand to plot naturally flown curves. The power unlocked by mastering this tool is well worth the time needed to do so. While no amount of instruction can make you a Bezier master, below are some tips to keep in mind as you practice.

• Always use as few points as

Hooks are very useful in WordPress. They allow you to “hook” a custom function to an existing function, which allows you to modify WordPress’ functionality without editing core files. In this article, we have compiled 10 extremely useful ready-to-use WordPress hooks, along with examples and coding explanations.

What Is A Hook?

To achieve a particular effect on a WordPress blog, you have to modify how WordPress works. Some of these modifications are made to what WordPress developers call “core files,” files required by WordPress to work properly.

But modifying core files is always a bad idea. It may create a security loophole. Also, you will have lost the modification when you upgrade your WordPress installation.

Still, developers need to overwrite some of WordPress’ functionality, which is why WordPress provides the Plugin API.

Hooks are one of the main

In this post we release Android GUI Starter Kit, a set that comes with several button elements as well as different interface options for Android GUI. This set was designed by Pavel Maček and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Android GUI PSD is based on elements of Android 1.5 GUI and was made to help open-source community with Android applications mock-ups. Most of the elements and phone illustration are made in vector path so they are easily resizable. For text Android Sans was used.

Android GUI PSD is inspired by idea of teehan+lax iPhone GUI PSD. Other elements will be released soon. The