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Show HN: Typecast – Design in the browser with Google Fonts

#1

Post by phawk » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 12:52 PM UTC

Show HN: Typecast – Design in the browser with Google Fonts
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Re: Show HN: Typecast – Design in the browser with Google Fonts

#2

Post by deweller » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 1:33 PM UTC

Great concept and good implementation.

One bug report - The font selection scroll bar becomes hidden and un-clickable for me often in Google Chrome 30.

http://imgur.com/6nohjWD

Re: Show HN: Typecast – Design in the browser with Google Fonts

#3

Post by noir_lord » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 1:36 PM UTC

Jesus this is absolutely brilliant.

Occasionally I do sites for my business partner and the endless tweaking of fonts to get them how he wants is a pita.

I can throw this at him and he can give me back the CSS, fantastic!.

Re: Show HN: Typecast – Design in the browser with Google Fonts

#4

Post by ye » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 1:56 PM UTC

Just observed a bug. I changed the font for one of the blocks, and it changed it for all of the elements.

Re: Show HN: Typecast – Design in the browser with Google Fonts

#5

Post by paulmckeever » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 1:58 PM UTC

deweller wrote: post #2

Great concept and good implementation. One bug report - The font selection scroll bar becomes hidden and un-clickable for me often in Google Chrome 30. http://imgur.com/6nohjWD

Thanks for the heads up. I work with @phawk so will see if we can get a fix out for this.

Re: Show HN: Typecast – Design in the browser with Google Fonts

#6

Post by paulmckeever » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 2:03 PM UTC

ye wrote: post #4

Just observed a bug. I changed the font for one of the blocks, and it changed it for all of the elements.

When you change the style of an element, like a paragraph, it works like CSS and applies the change to all elements of that type. To add specificity, you have to give an element a class.

Really appreciate the feedback.

Re: Show HN: Typecast – Design in the browser with Google Fonts

#7

Post by phawk » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 2:13 PM UTC

noir_lord wrote: post #3

Jesus this is absolutely brilliant . Occasionally I do sites for my business partner and the endless tweaking of fonts to get them how he wants is a pita. I can throw this at him and he can give me back the CSS, fantastic!.

Wow, thanks very much!

Re: Show HN: Typecast – Design in the browser with Google Fonts

#8

Post by cutcopypaste » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 2:26 PM UTC

This has huge potential for us as a way of quickly making styleguides reducing both development time and designer QA time.

There are some important things missing, as far as I can tell though, like ... how do I make a list?

Re: Show HN: Typecast – Design in the browser with Google Fonts

#9

Post by phawk » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 2:36 PM UTC

cutcopypaste wrote: post #8

This has huge potential for us as a way of quickly making styleguides reducing both development time and designer QA time. There are some important things missing, as far as I can tell though, like ... how do I make a list?

Thanks for the feedback. We're continually working to improve the product and lists, along with support for other elements are on our roadmap.

Re: Show HN: Typecast – Design in the browser with Google Fonts

#10

Post by notahacker » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

deweller wrote: post #2

Great concept and good implementation. One bug report - The font selection scroll bar becomes hidden and un-clickable for me often in Google Chrome 30. http://imgur.com/6nohjWD

Also hidden in Firefox 25 for me. I'm constrained for vertical space on my netbook, which did make me think you could display at least a couple more typefaces at a time in the left hand menu if it wasn't for vertical space used up by the menu bar at the top, and the line with "$number typefaces"

Love the basic concept though.