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Show HN: TypeSlab – simple, shareable typographic posters

#1

Post by geelen » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 8:37 AM UTC

Show HN: TypeSlab – simple, shareable typographic posters
typeslab.com

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#2

Post by nixy » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 9:24 AM UTC

Great idea, and nice results!

Some suggestions: - Allow exporting to PDF or printing. I would want to be able to print this as a full-page poster with nice resolution - Allow user-configurable colors

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#3

Post by chubs » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 9:48 AM UTC

Love it! Thanks. I'll recommend it to some friends who are into blogging.

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#4

Post by cmadan » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 9:54 AM UTC

Looks great. If one could add a image background also, then it would be the perfect tool!

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#5

Post by m_eiman » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 9:59 AM UTC

It'd be nice if the actual height of characters was taken into acount. Try:

MY NAME

är tårta

Re: Show HN: TypeSlab – simple, shareable typographic posters

#6

Post by unicornporn » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 10:06 AM UTC

Nice, but not useable for me right now. ÅÄÖ collides with the above line.

Re: Show HN: TypeSlab – simple, shareable typographic posters

#7

Post by geelen » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 10:09 AM UTC

m_eiman wrote: post #5

It'd be nice if the actual height of characters was taken into acount. Try: MY NAME är tårta

Yep! I really wanted this, but it's a bit more work. HTML5 canvas has a `measureText` method but it only returns width, so there's a few cases where the text will escape the box. The logic is really simple for now, but I'll hope to improve it in future.

Would you mind submitting an issue with a screenshot of your text not rendering correctly? https://github.com/geelen/typeslab/issues

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#8

Post by wolfeidau » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 10:19 AM UTC

Fantastic work and props for open sourcing the site.

I will be reading the code to this one!

Thanks

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#9

Post by taylorling » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 10:21 AM UTC

This is awesome - this will definitely helps spread great words with nice design :)

Would love to have PDF download as well, and probably more font pairing (like 3 fonts, third font use !!), but in any case, this is already quite awesome!

Thanks Glen Maddern!

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#10

Post by edpichler » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 10:41 AM UTC

I really liked! I think it needs more designs, and can evolve to let the user create posters.