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Swiss in CSS – Homage to the International Typographic Style
- atemerev 11y agoI live in Switzerland. I am so much tired of this particular style. :)
- i336_ 11y agoWhat alternatives have caught your eye and been the most refreshing?
- s3nnyy 11y agoMaybe it is the physical proximity to artistic Italy. I don`t understand how a clearly Alemanni / Germanic culture like the majority of the Swiss managed to get world-wide known for things like "Helvetica" or the "Swiss Railway clock". Besides my main job as a software engineer, I work as a tech-recruiter in Zurich and I observe that the more work is frontend-heavy the less it is subject to being outsourced as it is usually closer to the client. If you look for a tech-job in Switzerland, check out my story "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT" on https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to-switzerland-to-work-in-it-c7ac18af4f90 https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t... or send me a mail to the address in my HN-profile.
- ucaetano 11y agoThose same things have a very utilitarian, engineered flavor to them, that's a major part of the appeal. Instead of over-decoration and serifs, they carry clean, minimal lines and optimize for clarity and readability. That is, in some ways, a centerpiece of Swiss (and Germanic) culture. Also, you need to remember that germanic cultures gave us all the Dutch Old Masters, Bauhaus, not to mention Mozart, Beethoven & co.
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- klausjensen 11y agoGreat blog post with a lot of information I was wondering about.
- myle 11y agoIn Zurich at least there are many big companies (Google, ibm, banks) which recruit engineers and most of them do not do front end work.
- s3nnyy 11y agoAt Google (Zürich) there is for sure some frontend work; if you're unlucky it is GWT, if you're lucky it is Typescript.
- ommunist 11y agoExtremely nice portfolio and the art object by itself. Disclosure: I am Helvetica fan.
- Freak_NL 11y agoIt looks off somehow, but that may be because of the lack of @font-face. I have no Helvetica on my computer, so some fall-back font is chosen instead.
- mattkevan 11y agoThis is great. Really nice work. There's something restful about the animations. What I find amazing about this kind of design is how 'digital' it looks – years before computers were powerful enough. He's Dutch not Swiss, but designers like Wim Crouwel[0] were hand-drawing pixel fonts in the 60s, and pretty much all of his work from then looks just as fresh today. And you've got to love his 60's modernist designer space suit[1]. [0]http://www.iconofgraphics.com/wim-crouwel/ http://www.iconofgraphics.com/wim-crouwel/ [1]https://www.flickr.com/photos/eyemagazine/5881716772/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/eyemagazine/5881716772/
- couchand 11y agoLove the suit. He looks like a Fred Armisen character.
- agys 11y agoSmall note: the original posters of Müller-Brockmann for “musica viva” are actually set in Akzidenz-Grotesk and not Helvetica.
- cbd1984 11y agoI'm impressed how the author managed to make them all work as intended without Javascript.
- spoiler 11y agoThese days, in modern browsers, you won't need JavaScript for 95%[1] of animations. [1]: Pulled that number out of my ass
- daturkel 11y agoThis is really beautiful and impressive. I only wish the text was a little more highlightable.
- sotojuan 11y agoAwesome. This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to get better at CSS.