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An Electric Koolaid Acid Test logo...and it's responsive

Oi's new logo looks like it's straight out of The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, except it's even more awesome than just looks: It responds to sound. Low pitch, quiet noises turn it blue and green, while higher pitched noises make it brighter and more lively. And of course it gets bigger as sounds get louder.





Advanced real life listening

Hear is a new app that gives you more control over your real-life listening experience and the way you hear the world around you. It includes seven free filters: Super Hearing with enhanced detail and quality, Auto Volume to mute background noise, Relax with "harmonic waves of bliss", Happy with psychedelic cascades of happiness, Talk for autotuning voices into music, and two more.





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Easier reading with all caps

Do you love using all caps in your designs but want to keep things readable? Letterspacing can make all caps easier to read, detailed in an article from UX Movement. It discusses how increased letterspacing in all caps gives the letters a more distinct shape, making them quicker to read.





A photographic taxonomy of skin color

Humanae is a "Work in Progress" by Angelica Dass. She's photographing people of all ethnicities, religions, ages, races, social classes, and nationalities, to catalog their skin color by Pantone color value. The project is open-ended, with no set stop date or limit to the number of participants.





Dark UI patterns in a popular news site

As newspapers grapple with falling revenue and readership, some are turning to less straightforward tactics to stay afloat. The Boston Globe is no stranger to using these Dark Patterns in their UI. Everything from misleading pricing to non-standard UI patterns that can easily confuse the visitor are employed, detailed in an article from The Rationalist Conspiracy.





Color palettes from master artists

Color Lisa offers up color palette masterpieces from some of the world's greatest artists. Click on an artist's name to reveal color palettes from one or more of their paintings. They include everyone from Basquiat to Degas to Kahlo to Vermeer. And every color palette includes the respective hex values to make using the palettes even easier.





Finally, a new logo for Tokyo

Seven months after the original logo was scrapped over plagiarism allegations, the Tokyo Olympics has finally unveiled a new logo design. The logos (one for the Olympics and one for the Paralympic Games) feature three varieties of blue rectangles, which represent different countries, cultures, and ways of thinking. They were created by Japanese designer Asao Tokoro.





Color palettes for people

Colordot is an iOS app that makes it easy to create color palettes even if color isn't your forte. You can create a share palettes with just a swipe. You can even use your camera to grab colors, like an eyedropper tool for the real world. And you can easily move palettes to your desktop with airdrop or share palettes with others with just a tap.





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