Looking for a helpful tool to for designers? Then check out the Art Directors Toolkit. Although this handy application can't make you an art director for 40 bucks, it replaces a bunch of tools that always seem to get misplaced in my office. It's designed for print pros, but motion graphics and web designers will appreciate some of its key features:
- A Scale Calculator to help you determine percentages for resizing to a specific target.- A text-preview window so you can see source copy in a variety of fonts.
- A symbol-conversion pane to unlock specialty characters in your fonts.
- A Swatch Book for viewing Pantone colors and finding related colors.
- A Blend window to find a third color that will work well with two others.
- A Units Converter to calculate different measurement conversions.
- A very robust RGB color picker.