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Sites of the Week: Feyt, Rego, Brandon Text and more

Today we selected amazing websites such as Brandon Text and Coffee Surfing, they are beautiful and with a very well done parallax scrolling! Check out these and other sites in the whole selection, share with us what you think and stay tuned for the next week!

Take a look on all the other sites we’re featuring today. Also you can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe and include #abdz_sites in the message.

DESIGN / CSS

Brandon Text – hvdfonts.com/brandontext

Brandon Text is the companion of the famous Brandon Grotesque type family. It has a higher x-height than the Grotesque version and is optimized for long texts, small sizes and screens.

Action film – actionfilm.ru

Action Film” studio specializes in the production of high-budget television advertising, television programs, music videos and movies.

APP / WEB APP / SERVICE

Kutoto – kutoto.com

Get your tasks done by trusted local people.

Rego – regoapp.com

Rego keeps track of your favorite places.

COMMUNITY / PORTAL / STORE / EVENT

Coffee Surfing – coffeesurfing.illy.com

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti and illy document little sips of happiness in the stories and coffee moments of people around the world.

Feyt – feyt.com

This project seeks to engage the public in what it means for Bristol to be a “low carbon city”, enabling everyone to have their say and help shape the future that we want to see.

STUDIO / PORTFOLIO / BLOG

Snask – snask.com

Snask is a Swedish design agency specializing in branding & film.

Froot Design – frootdesign.com

FROOT DESIGN Web and Graphic Design, Manchester. Providing high-end visual solutions to take your business to the next level

THEMES

Superstore – woothemes.com

Superstore is a hugely scalable WooCommerce theme designed to cater for lots of products. With infinite scroll on shop pages site visitors can view your entire shop catalog on one page, or easily drill down to category specific listings.

LittleBoy – pixelsparadise.com

LittleBoy it’s a clean, responsive and HTML5/CSS3 template for Joomla 3.0+. The package includes the templates installation file, some additional images and a documentation.

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The simplest way to tell the difference is to look at the characters as a whole and picture them as suits from their respective periods: Helvetica is sharper, with formal details; Arial is looser and less controlled.

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Take the short quiz and see how well you do — be sure to share your results!