Compare yourself to yesterday

In my very first 'Quick Confidence' newsletter (over two years ago!!), the third prompt I wrote was about not comparing yourself to other designers.

Today, I want to add something new to that idea. Instead of measuring yourself against other designers, why not compare yourself to who you were as a designer yesterday?

This was sparked from a reminder I put on my bedroom mirror that says:

“Day by day – in every way, I get better and better.”

My tattooist wrote this down for me during a session; it was something he had learned from a book about the power of repeatably reading positive prompts. Reading this message every morning helps me remember that I am improving and that I’m not stuck in one place (something that I struggle with often).

So if you need a confidence boost, take a moment to look back at yesterday – every bit of progress matters, no matter how small (and feel free to pop that reminder on your mirror too!).

New tool: Localfonts

When I’m looking for new fonts for a project, I tend to visit my favourite font websites because they are generally much easier to search through than using ‘Font Book’ on my Mac or in my design programme.

LocalFonts is a simple way to browse through all of the fonts that are installed on your computer, in your browser.

When you first visit the site, you’ll need to allow access. Once you do, you’ll be able to scroll through your local fonts easily. It lets you type in custom text, switch between light and dark modes, use gradient backgrounds, search in random order, and change the layout view.

Pretty cool eh! Check out localfonts here (or find it when you need it in my tool kit here)