✏ Issue #486: Sketch In 2021 And Beyond, Exciting New Tools For Designers, Pinterest Sans, Bootstrap 5, and more…

Sketch has been a stalwart of UI designers for years; it was one of the first apps to challenge Adobe’s dominance. To keep up with the challenge from newbies like Figma, Sketch is developing a raft of new features, from workspaces to real-time collaboration. Pieter Omvlee and Emanuel Sá explain more in this state-of-the-app post.

Pinterest has been revising its visual identity into something more cohesive, and in the process, has commissioned Grilli Type to create Pinterest Sans, a corporate typeface that works well over imagery. Jenny Brewer reports on the project with some fascinating insights from the designers on what makes Pinterest Sans a good solution.

After months of development, Bootstrap version 5.0 has finally been released. The latest major version of one of the Web’s favorite frameworks introduces some core upgrades, including a handy offcanvas component for keeping things…off-canvas, updated form controls, RTL text, and there’s even a slick new logo to enjoy.

Each month we scout the Web looking for the very best new releases and then publish this roundup of the most exciting new tools for designers and developers. In May’s edition, you’ll find free illustrations, plenty of super-helpful dev tools, developer toolkits, some slick productivity tools, and as always, some great free fonts.

The Web is filled with articles on design systems: how to build a design system, how to use a design system, how not to use a design system… According to this great post by Benek Lisefski, every design is a system, and the mark of a great designer is thinking systemically. It’s a must-read post for anyone designing for the Web.

Do you set your measurements in pixels? Do you overuse specificity? Do you add browser prefixes? If you’re making any of these mistakes in your CSS, then you should check out CSS Hell, a fun site that explores common CSS mistakes, explains why they’re problematic, and offers a good alternative solution with examples.

The complexity of color use has moved on from the simple minimalism of a few years ago, and vibrancy and contrast are the designer’s go-to choices in 2021. In this timely article, the Awwwards team looks at the latest color trends in web design and covers various tools and resources you can use to pimp your own site.

mult.dev is a free project that generates a simple place-to-place visualization animation. Create a trip around an animated globe by specifying real-world locations in the simple app. The animation can be square, landscape, or portrait, and when you’re happy with your trip visualization, you can copy and paste the embed code.