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Color Resources
Design Seeds blog is a compilation of color palettes and their inspiration
With Canva’s color palette generator, you can create color combinations in seconds. Upload a photo and Canva will use the hues in the photo to create your palette.
Generate or browse beautiful color combinations for your designs.
Fonts
Discover the best font pairings for harmonious typography.
Google Fonts contains hundreds of free, open-source fonts and although they're primarily optimised for the web, they're equally great for use in print projects.
Great font pairings are essential to great design. These font pairs are perfect if you are trying to design your next logo, presentation, infographic, invitation, postcard, or anything else you’d like to design. There’s a science to applying a heading, subheading and body copy to suit the type of content you’re producing.
Image Citation Resources
A webpage discussing best practices for attribution of CC-licensed materials. Give examples of correct and incorrect citations.
MLA: Citing images in-text, incorporating images into the text of your paper, works cited
APA 6th ed.: Citing images in-text and reference list
Chicago 17th ed.: Citing images footnotes and endnotes and bibliography
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