I'm writing a lot today. I really need to spend less time on this so here's
just a list of stuff about typography and other simple ui things I enjoy.
By the way. It seems like whenever I try to theme these blog posts, I get
off my intended topic so uh. Enjoy my train of thought going all over the
place. Hopefully it takes you some interesting places.
solarized
a coloring theme. apparently a lot of effort was put into mathing it out
to be pretty. That's cool.
AverÃa
a font. The guy averaged all the fonts in their computer together to
make one font. Nerd. But it's really neat, the article is written really
nicely; I love it when code stuff is explained so eloquently. The font
turned out so prettily too, it's like a less psychic damaging version of
comic sans. The website has a bunch of coding stuff on it. Just so much
random stuff like a flute maker and visualizer, and a video camera
warper, it really conjures up old internet vibes of finding random stuff
littered around without the personality-killing polish that's on so many
modern sites.
Speaking of old internet, check out r/InternetIsBeautiful.
Checkboxes
is pretty interesting.
Where was I? Typography and stuff. Check out
aarthificial, he
made his own
animation engine
powered with code. (I think he said it was inspired by
3Blue1Brown
's
Manim?) So so cool. He uses
it to make killer devlogs for his game, very understandable and pretty.
There was a thing a while back where a company made a software that
allegedly helps people read better by bolding the fronts of each word.
And then sold it. And then got laughed and yelled at by people who know
how tech works. This is a drastically oversimplified story that heavily
opposes Bionic Reading's side, but whatever. Anyways, a bunch of people
threw together
apps
in, like, a day to make it free.
oo on the topic of cool web apps, check out
Zapquaker
for Clash of Clans. I use it so often when I need to calculate exact
levels.