The useful information for design creators in September 2023 is here. It is full of various design tools and fresh materials that can help you increase your productivity! Please enjoy it slowly. If you think the content is good, you are welcome to share these resources with those in need around you.
【Free font】Maruko Gothic
This is a very interesting free traditional round font. Compared with the regular round fonts, the road junction round font adds a very interesting hook element. This is a free font Maruko Gothic produced by the netizen “max32002”. The road junction round font is based on ZenMaruGothic and is currently being supplemented. This font adopts SIL Open Font License 1.1 license, free for personal and commercial use. Although there are still some missing characters, I believe the author will complete the fonts in the future.
【Online Tools】TTSMaker
TTSMaker is a free text-to-speech tool that provides speech synthesis services and supports multiple languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc., as well as multiple voice styles. You can use it to read texts and e-books aloud, or download audio files for commercial use (completely free). As an excellent free TTS tool, TTSMaker can easily convert text to speech online, with a single input of up to 8,000 words, dozens of speaking intonations to choose from, and conversion to MP3, OGG, AAC, OPUS, WAV and other formats.
【Online Tools】SaveTT
Short videos are a recent trend, bringing huge amounts of dopamine to modern people. Creators have also begun to spend time researching and producing short videos. Douyin, the home base of short videos, has many excellent works. Through this online download tool, you can easily download Douyin videos for study. The website is very fast. Just enter the URL and click the “Search” button to analyze, and then you will come to the download page. You can directly download or transfer it to your Dropbox, or download directly. In addition, it also provides The QR Code can be scanned and downloaded by mobile phones. On the left side, you can see the cover thumbnail of the video, and on the right side, you can choose the video format to be downloaded. You can choose: MP4, MP3, MP4 and other formats respectively. It is a simple and easy-to-use tool.
【Online Tools】Screenshot for Street View
This browser plug-in can remove all interface elements on the Google Street View screen, allowing you to easily obtain the Street View screen. This tool is a browser plug-in. After installation, you can capture clean Street View photos when browsing Google Street View. It is suitable for mainstream browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The downloaded image file format is a JPG file.
【Reward Design】Z-Library
This is the world’s largest shadow library, which contains tens of millions of e-books for free download and is open to users all over the world. The included content includes e-books and articles. The coolest thing is that it provides books in Traditional Chinese. In addition to EPUB format, the file format can also be converted to TXT, PDF and other formats. A free account can download up to 10 e-books and 30 e-books per day. This article has the characteristics of anonymous uploading and decentralization, so it is called the “Shadow Library”. It advocates the popularization of knowledge, but it also causes controversy. If the link is invalid, please use the latest link in Wikipedia noted. Remark
Source: KOCPC Chinese