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Fontwalk
- barnabask 13y agoOn one hand I think this is an innovative presentation, and I enjoyed the creativity. Also I like fonts. On the other hand, (and this is a critique of scrolling/parallax navigation in general), as a user I always feel like I'm doing this wrong. It feels like I'm a cameraman with one of those old-timey hand-cranked movie cameras from the Charlie Chaplin days where the skill was in keeping the shutter speed constant but I'm doing it wrong and everybody is walking around at a weird speed. The ability to reverse the animation by scrolling up is novel, and maybe going at my own pace is the idea. But personally I would rather click next and let the transition happen normally. Maybe Powerpoint has made me lazy.
- teleclimber 13y agoI think parallax can be an effective way of presenting information on a page (easier to scrub than video, more cohesive than a slide deck and more lively than a static page). But here I think they overdid it. There is too much going on, I can't tell where I am, and I have no idea what I'm supposed to get out of it. (Probably doesn't help that I don't remember much German from high school, but even then I'm not sure the actual text content would be all that helpful).
- rmk2 13y agoThere is a longer texts at the end of each of the three distinct sections, informing you about the specific font you just saw, as well as its included features. You can skip between these sections be clicking on the little markers on the right. All the other text is there to show you the fonts and their features in action, be it ligatures, be it international diacritics or different font weights.
- jhome 13y agoIt is a fad, let's face it. That's not to say that it isn't pretty and it is great to experiment but we don't really colour the scroll bar pink anymore.
- kbar13 13y agolooks great, but now my index finger hurts
- JesseObrien 13y agoFor scrolling small distances there's the mouse wheel; for everything else there's spacebar.
- sirsar 13y agoDon't forget the venerable arrow keys
- nilved 13y agoI just put a rock on top of Page Down.
- ygra 13y agoI wonder whether there's a market for "key weights" that fit a key exactly and are heavy enough to keep it pressed. Depending on the occasion I have used heavy implements (not exactly rocks), a variety of wedge-like tools like scissors and other things to keep a key pressed, but a dedicated tool such as a properly-shaped paperweight might have been much nicer ;)
- blueblob 13y agoIn linux you could write a script with xdotool to select the window you want and spam whatever key/sequence of keys you would like.
- Cthulhu_ 13y agoI have a button on my mouse to make the scroll thingy freewheel, it's pretty neat.
- campinhos 13y agoInteresting, I've always used my middle finger for the scroll wheel.
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- lifeformed 13y agoHah, at this point, why not just make a video?
- nsfmc 13y agoi remember seeing at least one other font trailer way back in the day, but this is the only one that i can remember a url for http://www.trixiefont.com/ http://www.trixiefont.com/
- colinbartlett 13y agoWhat am I missing? I don't get it. I clicked all the links and all I saw was some shit flash around. What?
- TheZenPsycho 13y agotry scrolling.
- JasonFruit 13y agoI assume you're making a point; if I'm correct, you're making my point.
- jackmaney 13y agoOne of the few things worse than a website full of pretentious garbage is a website so full of pretentious garbage that I can't even tell what it's promoting.
- NoodleIncident 13y agoDo you read German? I've only taken a bit, and it's pretty clear that it's an advertisement for various fonts that they're selling.
- nthnclrk 13y agoI read zero German and it was obvious.
- ancarda 13y agoI'm beginning to get sick of websites hijacking the scrollbar. Is there a way to disable it? When I tried to scroll down, it kept freezing/locking up and began to flash rapidly as Safari tried to scroll down and the JavaScript forced it to scroll up. While this makes for a cool demo, please don't use this in production, it can impair user experience.
- CaveTech 13y agothat is the user experience.
- sneak 13y agoConsistently crashes MobileSafari on an iPad mini with latest iOS 7, just like the Google Translate webpage. I'm really getting tired of these MobileSafari crashes.
- __voidcast__ 13y agoOverall, I didn't even get to pay much attention to the actual content, all I was focused on, after a while, were those animations & how to get them moving. If the only aim of the designer was to display the power of parallax scrolling, Kudos.
- napcae 13y agoIf someone is interested, they've used this: https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr
- blueblob 13y agoI liked this, but the site is likely not expecting as high volume of traffic as it is receiving, if it doesn't load for you right away (like it did for me) just wait a few minutes and try again.