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Minimal Wim
- jchw 7y agoInteresting! It’s definitely pretty difficult to read some of the variations but it is quite stylish, I don’t think I’ve seen a typeface quite like this before.
- microcolonel 7y agoThis is awful. It's like brutalist architecture: unreadable, pointless, hideous, and masturbatory.
- Nalta 7y agoGreat! I can't read anything!
- chkaloon 7y agoMinimal readability
- andykx 7y agoI don’t think readability is the goal here. This is more of an experiment - a mental exercise, even - than anything.
- tartoran 7y agoSometimes that could be used on purpose, for a banner etc. Having that struggle to decode it it makes it linger more in ones memory. I find the presentation quite entertaining and visually stimulating.
- noicebrewery 7y agogreat now do chinese edit: or thai, or arabic
- peteretep 7y agoThai would be fine if you increase line-spacing, and get proper ligatures for เเ◌ vs เ◌
- knolax 7y agoSeal script for Chinese already looks pretty similar[0]. Look at the 3rd and 6th one from the left. [0] http://baby-pen.com.tw/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1842 http://baby-pen.com.tw/index.php?route=product/product&produ...
- hcarvalhoalves 7y agoIt gets tiring after a few paragraphs.
- kaidon 7y agoThat was painful to read! It kind of feels like cheating with all the shrinking/expanding of vertical/horizontal cells.
- monokai_nl 7y agoCheating, hacking, solving puzzles. What's the difference :) But yeah, it's not exactly 9 pixels.
- asveikau 7y agoI don't know much about these topics, but the style looks very 1970s to me. Looked at the Wikipedia article on Wim Crouwel and it seems some of his typography was from the late 60s, so not far off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Crouwel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Crouwel
- tartoran 7y agoYes, looks 70s but is there anything wrong with that?
- asveikau 7y agoNope. No problem here. Don't know why you would think my comment was meant to suggest it. I am presently a fan of many things from that time period. Very good decade for music, for instance.
- tartoran 7y agoSorry for the incorrect interpretation, it felt like a criticism with the assumption that 70s is passe. I love a lot of 70s things as well.
- Seb-C 7y agoI stopped reading after trying to scroll and seeing that the website messes with my scroll speed (and even worse, there is an annoying inertia effect). Outside of this, the font may be useful for some specific design work, but it is unreadable.
- aasasd 7y agoCool. Doesn't work at all in FF on Android, but at least I got to read the first two lines and the ‘scroll down’ message.
- miloignis 7y agoWorks fine for me! Both regular FF and FF Preview on Android 10.
- ricc 7y agoI don't know where the "hate" is coming from... Or maybe I just see this more as art and not something to be taken seriously as a technical suggestion.
- cies 7y agome too: i thought it was a wonderfully artistic/design tool. no a replacement font for your terminal (what seems that most were expecting judging from their comments of disappointment)
- monokai_nl 7y agoAuthor here. This started as one of our monthly days of experimenting at our design agency https://booreiland.amsterdam https://booreiland.amsterdam — The concept of those days is to create something (anything) in 8 hours. The prototype of this was done in the day after Crouwel passed away so that basically was my starting point. I knew he worked a lot with grid-based type (and earned the nickname Gridnik because of that). I see a lot of comments about readability. That's not really the point though, although I tried my best. It's more of a programming and design puzzle, to see what happens if all you have is a 3×3 grid.
- OliverM 7y agoI really enjoyed it, even if I did think it was going to be recommendations for a text editor config initially. How was it built? Looking through the compiled JS, it looks like it uses PixiJS (https://pixijs.download/dev/docs/index.html https://pixijs.download/dev/docs/index.html)?
- monokai_nl 7y agoThanks! It uses PixiJS for rendering, the rest is custom JS.
- xenihn 7y agoI found it really hard to read, but I loved the presentation. It was definitely a much smoother parallax effect than the one that Apple did for the iPhone 11 launch page (though I'm assuming they've since fixed it). You should definitely be proud.
- itronitron 7y agovery neat, it would be interesting to see the 3x3 grid encoding used for steganography, especially in a game. Incidentally, this is another reason that Minecraft needs a vertical slab, an open trapdoor is one option but has a limited palette.
- duckerude 7y agoAn interesting font by Wim Crouwel himself, much in the same spirit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Alphabet
- monokai_nl 7y agoDid you know it was used on one of the album covers for Joy Division?
- Someone 7y agoAs that page says: on the album “Substance”. That page doesn’t mention the spelling error (possibly intentionally, as the ‘m’ looks weirder than the ‘n’) in the title (cover image on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_(Joy_Division_album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_(Joy_Division_album) )
- tomcooks 7y agoIt's the reason why the font was made eh
- rvense 7y agoThe font isn't very readable, but the website is very impressive.
- pnako 7y agoUnreadable stuff + horrible scroll based interface. Whatever it is, it is not good design.
- yiyus 7y agoI think a font like this would fit perfectly in colorForth. Combining the Shannon encoding used by Chuck Moore [1] with a similar font would be an interesting exercise. This font in particular is great. I am always intrigued by experiments that try to take minimalism to the extreme. [1] https://colorforth.github.io/chars.html https://colorforth.github.io/chars.html
- ageofwant 7y agoYea can't read that. Thanks for doing the hard slog of filtering all the things that does not work, so others may avoid them :-) As whoever said: "I did not fail, I discovered a thousand ways of not making a light bulb"
- edynoid 7y agoThis website consumes about half my CPU. But for what?
- tempodox 7y agoVery designed. I'm just glad I don't have to read that font on a regular basis. One of those sad cases where “design” is the diametrical opposite of usability.