
Design
Snazzy Maps
Snazzy Maps is a repository of different color schemes for Google Maps aimed towards web designers and developers. As of version 3 of the Google Maps API custom styles can now be applied to maps. This allows developers and designers to pick a style that matches the theme of their website.
Google Visual Assets Guidelines - Part 2: User interface icons and Illustrations
[User interface icons and Illustrations] In January 2012, expanding on the new iconography style started by Creative Lab, we began creating this solid, yet flexible, set of guidelines that have been helping Google’s designers and vendors to produce high quality work that helps strengthen Google’s identity.
Google Visual Assets Guidelines - Part 1: Product icons and logo lockups
[Product icons and logo lockups] In January 2012, expanding on the new iconography style started by Creative Lab, we began creating this solid, yet flexible, set of guidelines that have been helping Google’s designers and vendors to produce high quality work that helps strengthen Google’s identity.
Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory
A showcase of the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory. There are over 400 typefaces in the Google web fonts directory. Many of them are awful. But there are also high-quality typefaces that deserve a closer look.