Our favourite tools for creating colourful & exciting websites
At Lucky Night Studio colour, vibes and maximalism are the name of the game! Obviously then, there’s a lot that goes into our websites and template designs; from inspiration & finding the perfect colour palette to building and selling our designs. Here are a few of the tools we couldn’t live without!
Squarespace
An almost annoyingly obvious first choice but hey, let’s get it out of the way. As far as we’re concerned, Squarespace is the best online website builder for all creative business babes. With it’s intuitive drag & drop system and endless opportunities for customisation, we’d be lost without Squarespace. Our range of bold and unique templates are testament to just how flexible and brand-able Squarespace websites are, not to mention some of the incredible creations brought together by you amazing lot! There’s more about these transformation on our Pinterest and Instagram.
Canva
I’m a professional designer darling, didn’t you know? And even I bloody love Canva. All of our social media templates are created using this insanely powerful online creative software and the more I use it the more I adore it. The graphics and font options are insane (even in the free version) and the templates you can use as starting points are so varied and so gorgeous that it’s a wonder we even bother with the Adobe suite any more (just kidding, Illustrator rules my life).
Coolors.co
Fantastic colour schemes don’t just get plucked out of thin air. They get plucked from Coolors, my very favourite colour scheme generator. You can view trending palettes created by others (a lifesaver when you’re starting a template design from scratch) or create your own using one or two existing brand colours. There’s a free and paid version, so you can decide the features you get.
How does one even go about collecting inspiration without Pinterest? What would we do? Just trawl through the internet until we found something vaguely pretty over and over again? No thank you! Pinterest is to designers what seeds are to farmers - our jobs would be impossible without them!
Unsplash
The time before Unsplash was a miserable place, we either had to pay a massive premium for Shutterstock or similar or use photos that looked like they were taken using a TV remote. Unsplash provides totally free-to-use images that are genuinely absolutely bloody gorgeous - a complete lifesaver for small businesses on limited stock-photography-budgets. Plus, Unsplash free images are integrated into Squarespace - saving you heaps of time and room in your downloads folder.
Adobe Fonts
I like Google fonts, I think they’re excellent. Just nowhere near as excellent as Adobe fonts, which are so vast in number that I can genuinely spend half a day choosing a typeface where the serifs are juuuust right. Thankfully, Squarespace integrate all of Adobe’s web fonts into their system so that stunning typography is only ever a click away.
Thanks for reading, beaut!
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Stay creative!
Naomi | Lucky Night Studio
