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The @font-face CSS rule makes it easier than ever to implement unique typefaces on your site without the need to rely on Google Fonts or any of the premium options. You may not want to use a custom font for your entire website but they can be used to great effect to make a heading stand out while retaining the ability to be read by search engines.

Below is a selection of the finest typefaces from recognisable science fiction shows as well as a number of others that follow the same theme.

Recommended Reading: High Quality Gothic & Horror Fonts

Sci Fi Movies

Check out these famous typefaces from the famous science fiction show

Font: Alex Murphy Solid – Movie: Robocop

Font: Alien League – Movie: Aliens

Font: Alien Resurrection – Movie: Alien Resurrection

Font: AVP – Movie: Alien vs. Predator

Font: Back to the Future – Movie: Back to the future

Font: Batman Forever – Movie: Batman Forever

Font: Battlestar – Movie: Battlestar Galactica

Font: Blade Runner – Movie: Blade Runner

Font: Farscape – Movie: Farscape

Font: Final Frontier Old Style – Movie: Star Trek

Font: Futurama – Movie: Futurama

Font: Gunship – Movie: Wall-E

Font: Matrix – Movie: Matrix

Font: Planet of the Apes – Movie: Planet of the Apes

Font: Splash Gordon – Movie: Flash Gordon

Font: Star Jedi – Movie: Star Wars

Font: Stargate – Movie: Stargate

Font: Transformers – Movie: Transformers

Font: Tron – Movie: Tron

More Sci-Fi Themed Fonts:

Here are a few more fonts that are not from or part of a movie but will still work with a sci-fi theme.

Carbon Block

Ethnocentric

Hyperspace

Imagine

Nasualization

Orion

Pirulen

Planet Kosmos

Prototype

ROBO

Space Age

Space Man

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Do you have a favourite futuristic font you think should be included? Let us know in the comments.

We are already in December; time seems to be running too fast, right? Much like the previous few months, we are going to feature some useful resources for web designer and developers.

This time we have some cool resources from one that capable of slicing your design in Photoshop to some fresh new jQuery plugins with stunning effects.

Check out all our fresh resources (according to month):

• October 2012
• November 2012
• December 2012

Cut and Slice

Slicing Photoshop for web is a daunting task, particularly when you have a bunch of layers. To make this unavoidable job (for web designers) faster and easier, you can use a tool called Cut and Slice.

It is a free Photoshop plugin that lets you slice your Photoshop layers for web use in seconds. Unfortunately, this plugin it currently only available for Photoshop CS6.

PFold

Folding effect with jQuery is nothing new in the web development world. There are many free plugins available to create such visual effects. But with PFold, we are able to unfold and fold the targeted element back like how we do on paper.

We are also able to aim the the fold direction. Have a better look at the demo here.

Grid-A-Licious

Pinterest is gaining more popularity and unlike other social media it presents the layout in grid. Now, you can create similar grid layouts with this jQuery plugin called Grid-a-licious. But this plugin does it better. It is now responsive.

Liffect

CSS3 has a bunch of cool additions such as Transformation and Transition. But, the implementation is rather convoluted. Now, Adem ilter has created Liffect, a tool to add cool (I mean really cool) effects

to <li> elements. There are many cool effects provided, starting from the simple fade-in and fade-out to Star Wars effect.

Makisu

Makisu is light jQuery plugin to create 3D dropdown effect. As the name implies, the effect looks like Makisu when it is being folded down. Makisu is a mat woven from bamboo and cotton string that is used in food preparation, it’s how you usually roll sushi.

One thing worth noting is since the 3D effect is built upon CSS 3D Transformation, the effect can only be viewed in very modern browsers. See the demo here.

Interface Sketches

If we build websites or webapps, we might frequently need to sketch the ideas on paper before we work on the codes. To do that job, you can use special templates from Interface Sketches.

It provides sketch templates for various devices and screen: Desktop, iPad, iPhone, Nexus and Windows Phone.

Web Platform

A few big tech corporationslike Adobe, Facebook, Google and W3C teamed up and found WebPlatform.org to make the Web a better place.

Web Platform contains comprehensive web documentation for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other web technologies. It also has a Q&A section, where you can ask for solutions form the community.

jQuery Countdown

jQuery Countdown is a jQuery plugin for creating those cool flip clock effects. You can set it for the day, hour, minute and even second. This plugin is perfect to creating things like a Coming Soon Page or Product page with limited time offer. You can see the demo here.

So Fresh

All this time, every time we change the CSS, we need to refresh the browser to see the effect. Using So Fresh, you no longer need to do that.

You can select which CSS file you are editing, and So Fresh will automatically refresh the browser whenever the changes are made.

Tiny PNG

Every bit counts and speed matters. One of the way to make our website load faster is by optimizing the image file size. As we already knew, smaller size tend to load faster. If you have some PNG images on your website, you can use Tiny PNG to make their size smaller.

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The advances in technology in the field of photography have created more stunning, pure image quality and made picture processing and editing much easier. People can simply plug in their digital cameras to their computers, import the pictures saved as files, and reproduce them through printing. However, this matter of convenience has a drawback that can prove to be troublesome for serious color photographers.

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What you see on your digital camera’s screen won’t appear the same as when you transfer it to a computer and view it through your monitor. Similarly, what you see on your computer screen won’t be exactly what you’d get when you print it. Although each device has a color "language" that is mostly the same, there are important differences that set all of them apart, when it comes down to the details.

Different Color Spaces

Computers break down colors into three primary ones, where all the other shades are derived from: red, green and blue. Each one is given a corresponding number and are mixed together to produce all the different shades. This is called the "color space".

The problem then lies in the fact that each device – the digital camera, the monitor and the printer – has a slightly different color space that defines the shade of the numbers. This is more apparent in printers because instead of using red, green and blue for producing colors, printers use cyan, magenta and yellow.

Mixed Up Colors

A camera can have a combination of numbers that show cobalt blue, while a monitor shows sapphire and a printer produces Persian blue. The differences will even exist from one monitor to another. It might not be readily apparent to the average person, but for professionals, having all three pictures show shades that look as similar as they can be is important. This is where one needs to practice "color management".

Color Management Standards

There is a standardized color management system introduced in 1993 by the International Color Consortium (ICC). It was created to make color production more consistent across all operating systems and software for display devices. Some manufacturers of such devices give out the ICC profiles of their products for customers looking to have more exact display and print matches.

Monitor Calibration

To make sure each device will have a more similar color output, you will have to perform some calibration to get as close a match as possible. The simplest way to do this is to adjust the display settings of the monitor itself (contrast, balance, brightness, etc.).

If you have just turned your computer on, wait for 15 to 30 minutes before calibrating. The monitor might still be warming up, affecting its color output.

Brightness

Print a picture and compare it with the digital version so you can finetune the settings accordingly. Holding up the piece of paper right next to the monitor will not be enough, as brightness levels from the monitor itself may differ from the brightness level in the room.

At lower brightness intensities, a picture with blue shades might look just right but under average brightness intensity, the same shade may appear more yellowish. You have to make sure that both pictures are seen at the same level. There is no use to compare a picture viewed under a fluorescent lamp and another viewed under direct sunlight.

Your workspace itself should have a reasonably bright and uniform lighting. You will also have to take into consideration reflections from light sources on the monitor.

Color

Check the monitor’s display settings again for the dropdown "Colors" menu. Select the highest setting which is usually 32 bit or True Color for Windows, and Millions for Macs – that is if it is not yet set to that level.

Monitors also need regular calibrating because they constantly change color values. Do this two to four times a month to make sure its color settings are as close to the print outputs as possible.

This kind of monitor calibration can be enough for some people who only need to make small adjustments.

Software/Hardware Calibration

For more advanced calibrations, you will have to look for certain software and/or hardware that do the job. The programs do not just modify the brightness and color settings. They also modify the white point, which affects the "color temperature"; gamma, which affects the contrast of shades; and luminance, which affects the light emitted from the monitor.

This is different from brightness in that it is more apparent through the brightness level of the actual environment surrounding the monitor.

There are some that only calibrate monitors, while there are others that also calibrate printers and digital cameras. For even more precise color matching, colorimeters for monitor color readouts and ICC profile detection, as well as special viewing lights for printed pictures are a must. However, these can be very expensive.

Wrap Up

While calibrating your monitor still cannot guarantee 100% identical print matches, it pays to make use of the resources and procedures available to get as close to perfect matching as possible. If you have questions about color management, share them at the comments area below.