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Is Product Sans (Google new geometric font) being made available for commercial use?
When you open the TTF webfont in use on Google websites, you get some metadata and a link to this URL:
https://www.google.com/fonts/license/productsans
It says:
Google offers
many fonts on open ...
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What exactly are Google's '500' color swatches?
I've been wondering that myself.
First, "500" doesn't seem to indicate how many colors there are, but the weird numbering system they use. 500 is the base, 400 is lighter than the base, 600 is darker....
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How can I import a vector drawing into Google Slides?
This method works flawlessly for me.
Upload your images/icons to Google Drive
Open it with CloudConvert
Choose export format : vector / emf.
Make sure that you have the checkbox to save the ...
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Using Google Fonts for print work
It's completely fine to use them. Google Fonts are all open source, so you can use them for whatever you like.
However, they are mostly screen fonts. In other words, they're mostly designed to look ...
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What sort of program is Google using to make these drawings?
I'd probably call these type of illustrations 'vector illustrations', because they look like, at least regarding the original source files, they could be scaled up easily. If I were looking for them, ...
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Critique: Icon app redesign
Decide where your light source is, and stick to that. As you look closer at all icons in the example, they have their light source at 315°—top left. All shadows and shading obey that light ...
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Online Tool to Find Closest Google Font
The first thing to say, is that I want to be honest and I'm affiliate to the software I present bellow (I'm the software designer/programmer of this font identification engine) and I'm really proud ...
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What exactly are Google's '500' color swatches?
I'm going to leave this here because it is new information on the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=73&v=xYkz0Ueg0L4
Published on May 28, 2015
A little rusty on your color theory? Material ...
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how would you recreate the distorted/noise effect that google uses in their new material design illustrations?
The below was done in Illustrator but could be done in Photoshop.
First create your object. For the demonstration I am using a linear gradient. You can mess around with a gradient mesh for more ...
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Preventing reverse search engines from finding the origin of your image?
I think you were on the right track with your watermarking option, but you left too much of the original image in tact. Here are two images I tried that Google was unable to find:
Checkerboard
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Preventing reverse search engines from finding the origin of your image?
Google may use a different system but a large number of such services (tineye included) use perceptual hashes where the overall hash is close enough to be a match, rather than exact.
A whitepaper ...
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Why does the lower case 'r' in Google Sans font change size depending on the next letter?
To get the arch of the R above the crossbar of the T, I imagine. The E and A are lower and rounded, so the R fits into their negative space, but the T pokes to the left.
It's really noticeable. It's ...
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What does the number mean on the Google web font "Page load" meter?
This is a good question the GUI has no indication on what that means. However your hunch that its size in compressed KB does seem to be quite close. I would tip this is the correct answer.
How do i ...
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Noto Sans vs. Noto Sans UI
Some simple google search gave me the Guidelines for using Noto, and in there you find:
For an Arabic website that needs to use an UI font for UI elements, such as buttons and tabs, that have more ...
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Online Tool to Find Closest Google Font
Try this one (although it is not yet complete for all the Google fonts):
http://joelcrawfordsmith.com/closest-font/
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What exactly are Google's '500' color swatches?
Perhaps you've already found this resource, but Google has put together an incredibly handy guide to help developers and designers sync up with the new Material vibe.
The whole guide can be found ...
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When should a Material Design ripple be dark, and when should it be light?
In all the simple button examples (including other examples in the animation section), the ripple effect compliments the colour of the text or icon - which should follow readability (use a colour ...
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What exactly are Google's '500' color swatches?
Here is the answer to your question.. check out this video
The 500s are Primary Colors perfect describing the dominant theme in your product and are great for toolbars.
700s are used for ...
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Image for Google Card- How can I tell it is correctly 16:9 ratio?
You need to ensure that the image width relates to the height as the number 16 relates to the number 9.
16 divided by 9 is 1.77777778. That means that your image width must be 1.77777778 times larger ...
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Material design / Elevation in photoshop
I can't find anything regarding Android shadows on the Google design docs now, but there was apparently once upon a time a list of the values for Adobe Illustrator, but they seem to have taken it down....
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When using fonts in Bootstrap, is it quicker to use the Google Fonts API or to just install the font file on the server?
Short answer: Google is much faster than you hosting it yourself.
Long Answer: Putting it on your own server might seem like a good idea to improve load times. After all, the files are closer to your ...
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Which google font is closest to this?
I'd use Merriweather myself. It seems to be the closest of the bunch.
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Why does the lower case 'r' in Google Sans font change size depending on the next letter?
You can add css font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures (or font-variant-ligatures:none) to prevent Chrome (and Firefox!) from displaying 'r' that way. IE/Edge don't have the bug.
You could also ...
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How can I import a vector drawing into Google Slides?
As of Apr 4th 2020, I just found an easier offline solution for this issue, especially if you have the shape already in PowerPoint.
Just copy the shape(s) to a new PowerPoint presentation and save it ...
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Google map icon- is it free to use?
Per Google after a little search:
Things not permitted:
Don't copy or imitate Google's trade dress, including the look and
feel of Google web design properties or Google brand packaging,
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Google Slides - Adding drop shadow to an image
Google Slides has caught up and you can now add drop shadow to images and shapes from the format menu:
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How do I get the menlo font onto Google Docs?
Unfortunately Menlo is not a supported font for Google Docs. There is a nice alternative that could get the job done called Inconsolata, and since it's a Google font it's really simple to access in ...
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Is attribution required while using a Google Font as a piece of art or in video?
First not all Google fonts have the same license. A quick search found the following licences (which are listed on attribution page, but there can be more):
SIL Open Font License, 1.1 (OFL)
Apache ...
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What are Google font alternatives for Franklin Gothic
Google Font's version of it would be Libre Franklin. There are some small differences but it's very close.
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How to search for logos to use on google images without all the stock photo sites coming up in results?
Put the characters "-stock" in the search terms, without the quotes obviously.
Be very careful about "deriving" logos from others. Taking inspiration from looking at the design of other logos for ...
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