08/08/08—what a date for today’s Friday Focus! Aside from celebrating the start of the Beijing Olympics, how about enjoying some user-generated goodness for our sites this week?

Can’t say there’s a completely obvious unifying factor to each of the design picks this week, but they all have beautiful, detailed illustrations in them. They’re all cheerful too.
Designs of the Week

The effects on these icons are pretty cliche in some people’s books, what with the saturated hues and glassy reflections, but they’re still nice [...]

A large collection of 30 fonts you want to have, some free, and some paid. We may not be Smashing Magazine, but we can put together a good list here and there too. If you are looking for professional fonts to fun ones, we’ve got you covered with this extensive list.

If “Layout, YOU SO NASTY” is the first thought that occurs to you in the morning, aside from “OMGWTF NUKES” and “Mmm…donuts”, change should probably be on the horizon, because if it isn’t, a chupacabra might be, and in the history of the world, there has never been anything more unforgiving. Except, of course, an [...]

Thousands of free font directories make their home on the web. For this review, we were asked to take a look at Urbanfonts, a new font directory entering a crowded field. Can they stand out at all? Take a look and find out.