tools

Tools

Handcrafted tools that might be of use.


Optical character recognition
  • To copy paste off text from image.
Pattern repeatable
  • To quickly test if patterns can be tiled seamlessly.
  • To get a sense of the smallest possible dimension of a repeatable pattern, yet maintaining the overall design look you want.

CSS knowledge required.

Scrape HTML
  • Manually scrape HTML into JSON data.
  • Format JSON fields on the fly.

DOM query selector knowledge required.

Shape morph
  • Create SVG shape morph animation.

SVG knowledge required. Only usable on desktop device with keyboard.

Sprite animation
  • To quickly test out css animation with uploaded sprite sheet.

CSS knowledge required.

Strip SVG
  • To strip off redundant information and standardise responsive output of SVG files.

SVG knowledge required.

URL shortener
  • Proof of concept for a basic URL shortener service.