Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Avería: The average font
I recently read about Avería on BoingBoing. This font was generatively produced by averaging some 725 different fonts using a purpose developed algorithm. Yesterday while randomly browsing the Open Font Library I was pleasantly surprised to find a copy of Avería! It's available in seven different weights in truetype format. I'm unfamiliar with the license, but the details are available and I'm guessing it's pretty permissive. I think this may be the beige of typefaces.
Friday, January 20, 2012
HTML5 Benchmarks
I've been looking at HTML5 benchmarking sites this morning and thought I'd post them all together:
This last one in the list is particularly interesting as it not only provides a direct comparison of these different animation techniques but also has configurable CGI parameters to change many of the variables involved. Fun!
This last one in the list is particularly interesting as it not only provides a direct comparison of these different animation techniques but also has configurable CGI parameters to change many of the variables involved. Fun!
Thursday, November 17, 2011
New G-Mail Layout
Google recently began rolling out the new layout for G-Mail. Initially I was annoyed at the popup window offering me the "new look" but I figured I better dive in since it was going to be forced on everyone eventually. These are my initial impressions.
I was surprised and disappointed that they didn't port over the old themes, but after a week now I've been very happy with the new Basic Black theme. In addition I've found the new button layout to be absolutely fantastic. I think my favorite aspect is that I can now mark all as read with two clicks rather than the four it took me previously.
I did find the default display density of comfortable to be a massive waste of my screen real estate, but luckily this is easily changed with two clicks of the inbox settings button. The compact display density shows many more messages per page which is a much more efficient method of displaying the inbox.
I've heard some grumbling about the fact that the labels in the navigation pane to the left are hidden unless there are new messages. Sure, the rollover effect may be slow on some older machines or browsers, but in any modern environment this is a great improvement. I can now keep all of my 15+ labels neatly hidden away unless they require my attention.
Overall I think this was a step in the right direction. The interface is simplified and cleaned up and the other improvements Google made have pushed this product in a good direction.
I was surprised and disappointed that they didn't port over the old themes, but after a week now I've been very happy with the new Basic Black theme. In addition I've found the new button layout to be absolutely fantastic. I think my favorite aspect is that I can now mark all as read with two clicks rather than the four it took me previously.
I did find the default display density of comfortable to be a massive waste of my screen real estate, but luckily this is easily changed with two clicks of the inbox settings button. The compact display density shows many more messages per page which is a much more efficient method of displaying the inbox.
I've heard some grumbling about the fact that the labels in the navigation pane to the left are hidden unless there are new messages. Sure, the rollover effect may be slow on some older machines or browsers, but in any modern environment this is a great improvement. I can now keep all of my 15+ labels neatly hidden away unless they require my attention.
Overall I think this was a step in the right direction. The interface is simplified and cleaned up and the other improvements Google made have pushed this product in a good direction.
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