Design Tools News #33

If you ever Googled for a glyph, or was frustrated with the emoji picker, you need to spend a few bucks and get yourself → Glyphfinder. It is the missing character search tool that lives in the menu bar. Works for Mac & Windows!

This latest release of Rotato adds the ability to record your iPhone’s screen right within the app. This makes it even quicker to make a cool looking 3D promo for your app or website. It’s in beta now! Try it for free.

Instantly preview any Google font, local font, or a custom font on a live website. Neat Chrome plugin to quickly test font choices for a redesign.

I’ve been following Hakim for quite a while and he keeps on delighting with well-designed micro-interactions and shiny new features. This time it’s a “magic” way to animate between slides in the online presentation tool Slides!

Sketch 64 introduced Tints. With Tints you apply a single color to an entire group or Symbol and it respect semi-filled elements with different opacities and borders. Works really well, and I hope this soon will work with specific library styles we can set.

With this panel you can define a set of colors that need to be substituted when switching to dark mode. And the plugin then generates the design for this layout for you!

This is a really neat little utility plugin for importing a bunch of colors at once. Copy a list of HEX values, RGBA, or just a snippet of CSS.

In case you ever need such a thing, you now can!

A powerful new addition to Webflow — Symbols. It works similar to how we are used to in Sketch and Figma, but in Webflow it becomes even more of a super power. It’ll enable you to re-use layouts and sync edits when you adjust one of them. Think of a bunch of cards, link blocks in a grid, testimonials, the possibilities are getting endless!

No login or downloads required, and an easy way to set up your own personalized link. It worked very reliable for me so far, and it’s free for up to 4 participants. It does screen sharing, recording, and much more.

This tool aims to make remote collaboration more casual and spontaneous. Start a quick huddle with a focus on your content instead of your coworkers video taking over the full screen. Or, record a video status update to share with your team. And it works with Slack integration and neat keyboard shortcuts. Disclaimer: I haven’t tried it yet, just looks like a cool tool!

Some features are similar to Jamm, but Around wants to take it a couple steps further. Auto muting audio, no more echoing even with multiple laptops in the same space, and a camera feed that crops to your face. Sounds great, and I hope they’ll launch soon!