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Making Google Sans Flex

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Re: Making Google Sans Flex

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Post by skydhash »

makeitdouble wrote: post #29
vbezhenar wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Original iPhone got design right. I don't think there's a single modern smartphone that I like. My latest favourite smartphone was iPhone 4S. No camera bump. Perfect size, fits well in my hand, operable with one thumb. Perfect display size, enough to present all information I need. Perfectly usable without ugly case.

> Perfectly usable without ugly case. Why would you buy an ugly case and not a clean and well designed, functional one ? If you liked the original iPhone design, getting a rounded and hand fitting case would be the go too IMHO (on the size difference, there's no way out at this point)

My previous phone was the iphone 8. It’s trully a world of difference in usability compared to the iPhone 13 I’m using now. I have big hands, so I can ise the latter one-handed, but a lot of people I’ve seen don’t.

Re: Making Google Sans Flex

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Post by the_gipsy »

TekMol wrote: post #10

Since even after 2 hours nobody is discussing the actual font, let me tell you what comes to my mind when I read anything about Google and design: They got phone design right. I just can't get my head around it that even Apple, which is supposed to be THE design company, is making phones that can't lay on a table without wobbling like a barstool on a crooked floor. It just feels so broken to me. So detrimental to my…

The irony is that you're still not discussing the font

Re: Making Google Sans Flex

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Post by the_gipsy »

FireInsight wrote: post #32
the_gipsy wrote: post #22

Cool work on a font, but this page is proof that google is turning the web into some kind of JSON for their app, Chrome. Extremely sluggish on non-Chrome. Starts with a black blank empty page. Fans spinning. Takes way too long to load for just some text and some videos. Clicking a link does some SPA magic that takes me to another black blank page, and takes ages to load. Clicking back doesn't work anymore. I need to…

Huh. Firefox on a mid-range android phone had no issues.

Works much better than desktop, but clicking back doesn't restore the scroll correctly, e.g. the link I clicked was hidden behind the header on return, disorienting.

Re: Making Google Sans Flex

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Post by lnx01 »

syldarion wrote: post #3

Like the other commenter, my mind also fixated on the mouse cursor. Great post on the fonts, but I spent most of my time seeing how the strange cursor behaved. I don't like it much, especially because there's some inconsistency once you're down hovering over the related posts. However, there was one spot where I had to give it to them: when I hovered over the content about Google Sans Code, it expanded horizontally.…

It should not be possible for a webpage to change my mouse cursor.

Re: Making Google Sans Flex

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Post by chippiewill »

grougnax wrote: post #23
the_gipsy wrote: post #22

Cool work on a font, but this page is proof that google is turning the web into some kind of JSON for their app, Chrome. Extremely sluggish on non-Chrome. Starts with a black blank empty page. Fans spinning. Takes way too long to load for just some text and some videos. Clicking a link does some SPA magic that takes me to another black blank page, and takes ages to load. Clicking back doesn't work anymore. I need to…

Just use Chrome on a MacBook Pro M4 like everyone else

Use it on an Air and there aren't even fans to be spun up

Re: Making Google Sans Flex

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Post by chippiewill »

philipwhiuk wrote: post #27

> It’s one of the most-served fonts on the internet, clocking in at some 120 billion font requests a month. Isn't this an incredible waste of bandwidth? Surely people only need the font once.

Browsers made a fundamental change a while back to not share caches between origins because caching it became a side-channel to detecting if someone had visited it before.

So now if two different websites embed the same remote font then visitors will have to download it separately for both sites.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/http-cache-partitioning

Re: Making Google Sans Flex

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Post by bluecalm »

Other than changing my mouse cursor to a circle that just makes it unintuitive to use can someone explain the point of a circle in the right upper corner that expands automatically into two icons: search and a hamburger menu? The "saved" space is not used for anything anyway. Isn't it just a bad design that makes navigation harder for no reason?

Clickable elements seem to be underlined with the exception of one: the Google Design logo in the left upper corner. It seems inconsistent and confusing.

Are those new principles of designing things - making it more confusing and more difficult to find (and then click) for 0 gain?

EDIT: also scrolling all the way down is difficult because random stuff block the page, gets loaded. There is "Privacy & Terms" link at the bottom that is impossible to reach because of it. The design is just terrible, wtf Google?

Re: Making Google Sans Flex

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Post by Daneel_ »

guessmyname wrote: post #31

Is there a monospaced version of this font? Pretty much every font I try has one or two things that bug me. I’ve spent the last ten years making my own, first in FontForge, now in Glyphs.app, but it’s incredibly time-consuming. I’ll work on it for a while, then give up for months, delete everything, switch to a different font, use it for a few days, start hating it… and end up back at making my own font again. This c…

I’m curious. What are the critical features you’re looking for? I always like to hear the specifics of how people want to use fonts.
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