XCode Color Palettes

Written: February 16, 2015

I was working on a project recently with a group at work and it occurred to me that we had no way to share colors in IB. Either each developer had to punch in the RGB values every time, or you just had to wing it.

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Fonts, Icons and some Magick!

Written: September 29, 2014

First, Install ImageMagick - a great tool for manipulating images and videos. After that, we can turn text and symbols into images.

I know, I know, it's not that fancy. If your Photoshop skills are up to snuff, this tutorial will seem like baby games. But as an iOS developer with no Photoshop experience, I needed a way to make simple icons: play buttons, gears, and other things that I took for granted when I had a full-time designer on my team.

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