Fontwalk

JesseObrien wrote: post #5

kbar13 wrote: post #2

looks great, but now my index finger hurts

For scrolling small distances there's the mouse wheel; for everything else there's spacebar.

Don't forget the venerable arrow keys

Re: Fontwalk

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Post by barnabask » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 7:30 PM UTC

On 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.

Re: Fontwalk

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Post by colinbartlett » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 7:40 PM UTC

What am I missing? I don't get it. I clicked all the links and all I saw was some shit flash around. What?

Re: Fontwalk

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Post by Cthulhu_ » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 7:49 PM UTC

JesseObrien wrote: post #5

kbar13 wrote: post #2

looks great, but now my index finger hurts

For scrolling small distances there's the mouse wheel; for everything else there's spacebar.

I have a button on my mouse to make the scroll thingy freewheel, it's pretty neat.

Re: Fontwalk

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Post by jackmaney » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 8:09 PM UTC

One 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.