The April edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, Photoshop extensions, game frameworks, educational resources, mobile frameworks, jQuery plugins, and some really great new fonts.

Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there.

As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments. And if you have an app or other resource you’d like to see included next month, tweet it to @cameron_chapman for consideration.

Untrusted

Want to practice your JavaScript skills? Untrusted is an addictive video game that is played by tweaking and rewriting JavaScript code.

TypeGame

TypeGame lets you easily build mobile-friendly online games using a drag and drop builder. Combined with ActionScript 3.0, it lets you create powerful games in just minutes.

Typeform

Typeform is an easy way to set up forms that ask questions one at a time, much like a human conversation. It has a beautiful interface and is easy to set up.

Dropr

Dropr is an easy to set up portfolio for creatives. It’s responsive, looks the same (awesome) on every device, and it’s free.

GetTemplate

GetTemplate offers up responsive HTML5 and CSS3 templates for rapid web development. There are single-page templates, business templates, and more, with new ones added all the time.

Framework7

Framework7 is a full-featured HTML framework for building hybrid and web-based iOS7 apps with native features. It’s also great for prototyping functioning apps.

Nasty Icons

Nasty Icons is a set of edgy icons that can add some real interest to your designs. There are icons for plane crashes, vehicle fires, a head being stabbed in the eye, a stripper, a hangman, and much more.

Bootflat

Bootflat is an open source flat UI kit based on Bootstrap 3.1.1. It uses HTML5 and CSS3, is lightweight, and mobile first.

Fluidity

Fluidity takes the little bit of HTML that isn’t responsive right out of the box and fixes it. It’s only 115 bytes, and does things like make images and tables responsive.

UberVU Grid

UberVU Grid is a drag and drop library for 2D, resizable, responsive lists. It currently works as a horizontal grid, so you can configure the number of rows, while the columns will extend dynamically based on the items in the grid.

IxD Checklist

IxD Checklist is a handy checklist for making sure that your interaction designs are working as they should. It includes sections on affordance, feedback, simplicity, structure, and more.

Velositey

Velositey is a Photoshop extension for prototyping your designs in seconds. It makes it easy to set up the basics of your design, including layout and styles, based on an 1170px grid.

Really Good Emails

Need some HTML email design inspiration? Really Good Emails is a gallery of the best email designs out there, which you can browse based on type (alert, product sale, product update, etc.).

Badass Lady Creatives

Badass Lady Creatives is a site dedicated to featuring creative women from a variety of disciplines. It includes work from each to further inspire you.

Pixelcasts

Pixelcasts is a monthly video showing how real designers create things. It includes source downloads along with the videos, and every lesson you purchase is saved in your account for future reference.

Brick

Brick provides webfonts that actually look good. It’s completely open source, and fonts are served through Fastly’s industry-leading CDN.

Iconion

Iconion is an icon generator that lets you convert any icon font into PNG icons. You can add color, shadows, backgrounds, gradients, and more.

Mockuuups

Mockuuups is a set of four free hi-res iPhone 5S mockups. They have a fully adjustable background and display images.

MixItUp 2

MixItUp 2 is a jQuery plugin for animated filtering and sorting. It’s great for things like portfolios, galleries, and blogs.

Metalsmith

Metalsmith is a pluggable static site generator. All of the logic is handled by plugins that you simply chain together.

jQuery lightGallery

jQuery lightGallery is a lightweight lightbox gallery that works with both still images and video. It works with modern browsers, offers support for fade and slide effects, and you can put multiple sliders on a single page.

Triangly

Triangly lets you build a portfolio for your work just by adding your files to Dropbox, with no limits on how many projects you can include, and with the ability to present your images separately or in sets, among other features. It’s currently invitation only, but you can request an invite.

Jolly UI

Jolly UI is a set of over 200 hand-drawn vector UI elements to add personality to your projects. There’s a premium version for $29, and a free version that includes dozens of elements for web pages and apps.

JS Manners

Want to evaluate a 3rd party script before you use it on your website? JS Manners is a tool for scoring those scripts, including questions about performance, stability, footprint, flexibility, security, and compliance.

Slick

Slick is a fully responsive carousel that scales with its container. It uses CSS3 when available but works fine without it, among other features.

Comic Neue (free)

Comic Neue is a greatly improved typeface inspired by Comic Sans. It comes in a variety of weights and faces that even typophiles will appreciate.

Zona Pro ($10)

Zona Pro is a geometric sans-serif type family that includes eight styles plus matching italics. It’s inspired by geometric typefaces from the 1920s, with clean, highly readable shapes.

Marigny ($50+)

Marigny is a casual typeface consisting of five weights, from thin to black. It also includes a full set of small caps, fancy swash caps, and more.

Maritime Champion ($48)

Maritime Champion is a seaworthy all-caps font thatcomes in six weights, along with a Shoreline style with an additional four weights.

Laski Slab ($42+)

Laski Slab is a suite of twenty fonts designed for editorial purposes, originally developed for an online children’s magazine.

Science White ($10+)

Science White is a companion font to Science Noire, without the spider web. It comes in 3 weights, plus italics.

Lame Font (free)

Lame Font is a display typeface with a decidedly art deco slant.

Strato ($10)

Strato is a layered, slightly humanist sans serif typeface inspired by the city of Rome. It’s proportionally based on classical Roman inscriptions, but with a modern twist.

Wonderhand ($275)

Wonderhand is an extensive family of scripts, in seven widths and three weights. It has a total of 63 fonts, with two sets of alternate characters and automatic features to better imitate handwriting.

Ciao Bella ($10.50)

Ciao Bella is a sophisticated, hand-drawn copperplate script that includes four ornament fonts. It uses OpenType features to create a more genuine hand-lettered look.

1,075 Pixel-Perfect Vector Icons from Icons Solid – only $19!

Press release...

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is accepting applications for its new Health Information Technology Master's Program, offered beginning fall 2014.

As technology infiltrates the healthcare industry, the health IT field continues to grow at a rapid pace. The industry presents significant career potential, with postings for health care informatics jobs rising 53% between 2007 and 2012.

Given its large population and dynamic healthcare environment, the Baltimore-Washington area is poised for significant continued growth in the health IT field. UMBC, located just outside of Baltimore, offers a convenient location for industry professionals to receive the credentials needed to move into high-demand health IT roles.

UMBC's MPS in Health IT is an excellent choice for those who already have a degree in an IT or healthcare-related discipline, as well as those whose career has taken them into the field of healthcare IT. Designed with working professionals in mind, the program offers flexible evening, weekend and hybrid course options.

Those interested in learning more about the program can attend UMBC's Professional Graduate Programs Open House on April 23, 2014, for an opportunity to learn more about the curriculum and format, as well as receive information on financing and meet Career Services representatives. Those interested should RSVP in advance.

It looks as if the campaign to #CancelColbert may have been somewhat successful…

On Thursday, CBS announced that Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report will replace the outgoing late-night legend David Letterman in the coveted 11:35 time slot. 

The final episode of The Colbert Report will air at the end of the year.

Colbert began working in improvisational theatre with Second City Chicago and as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2005, he was promoted to host his own show.

A spin-off of The Daily Show‘s fake-news format, but with a twist, The Colbert Report pushed the bounds of political satire with Stephen’s portrayal of an egotistical, willfully oblivious right-wing pundit that has often hit too close to the mark for Bill O’Reilly’s tastes.

But as host of The Late Show, the public will be introduced to the real Stephen Colbert.

Though his true self has peeked through on a few notable occasions, Colbert has maintained his facade for almost a decade on the air. It remains to be seen what a talk show hosted by the real Colbert would look like.

Let’s hope Colbert doesn’t just spend the rest of his days making small talk with A-List celebrities, like most late night hosts. (And let’s see if he can maintain the impressive attention to science that the Report has become known for.)

Will we be saying goodbye to some of the sharpest political comedy of our time?

We’ll find out in 2015. Until then, we at USDemocrazy will be savoring the final episodes of The Colbert Report. 

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.

To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot

Jerry LoFaro creates amazing illustrations http://depot.ly/vEvge http://ow.ly/i/5ctG2

Graphic Designer Reinterprets The ABCs For Math Nerds http://depot.ly/vDQ6k  via @FastCoDesign

Font Size Idea: px at the Root, rem for Components, em for Text Elements http://depot.ly/vEwQw  via @Real_CSS_Tricks

Interview with Khajag Apelian: “Type Design Is Not Only About Drawing Letters” http://depot.ly/vEwJM

How Tobias Frere-Jones discovered NYC’s lost neighborhood of #type – http://ow.ly/vDPX1  via @BrushLovers

How emoji conquered the world: the story of the smiley face from the man who invented it http://depot.ly/vDOx8  via @verge

“Night Walk in Marseille”, an interactive Google demo that lets you explore the sounds and the soul of the city http://depot.ly/vDOsi

A guide to validating product ideas with quick and simple experiments http://depot.ly/vDNsR  #UX via @smashingmag

How A Drexel Professor Created The World’s Biggest Game Of Tetris http://depot.ly/vBaJh

10 Crucial Lessons From History’s Greatest Graphic Designers: http://depot.ly/vB9z6  via @FastCoDesign

Advanced web typography: Justification & hyphenation http://depot.ly/vB93s  via @elliotjaystocks

10 web apps every web designer should know of http://depot.ly/vyb1Q

Interesting thought: Use a recorder to dictate your blog posts http://depot.ly/vvpSW  /@seanHodge

Comic Neue – a font to write passive aggressive office memos http://comicneue.com

A Game of Social Throne, by HootSuite http://depot.ly/vvoDU

 Want more? No problem! Keep track of all our tweets by following us @DesignerDepot

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