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Thought-out typography! #34

Open ghost opened 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

Hello fellow coders! I've recently found myself obsessed with exploring Nertivia, and I love it! I think it's about time I show myself and contribute to this project!

Why: Nertivia's UI is one of the nicer things in this world, as it just keeps on giving! And, feel free to disagree, but to my opinion, one thing that could polish it a tad bit more would be having a bit of font change here and there. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the whole application right now is using one single font.

Feature: One tiny, but rather bold font change could be increasing the font weight for the headers, and even emitting some text here & there. In this screenshot, I demonstrated this by applying some ubuntu-style typography practices on the new nertivia's dashboard! (also, I'm using the legacy nertivia layout theme; drawer is hidden aswell)

Screenshot 2021-06-06 at 01-04-13 ( ) Nertivia#Advertising - Nertivia

I hope these UI prototypes help further develop the new UI in the right direction!

SupertigerDev commented 3 years ago

I would like to say that i don't really like the legacy design anymore as it shows less messages when the bar is at the top of the screen. Other than that, it looks pretty nice. I see that you removed the border radius from the cards but isn't border radius the future? 🤔

About the font in I'm no UI expert but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to use a single font in everywhere? I'm really bad at UI design btw so I am probably wrong.

About the "bold in some places, I could add some bold

Thanks!

brecert commented 3 years ago

About the font in I'm no UI expert but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to use a single font in everywhere?

While keeping the UI consistent and readable is important, a few different but still somewhat consistent, well thought out fonts in areas can help with readability and give the style some flair.

Readability can be improved by making it easier to distinguish sections/areas, or it may be used to make smaller fonts somewhat easier to read.

As an example, in many sites the font for what would be h1 is different to help distinguish it from the typical text.

Generally though most of the UI should be using a single, readable font.

ghost commented 3 years ago

I agree with @Brecert! That's about as good as an explaination can get ❤️

And, about the border radius, I only removed the second card's content's border radius because i find it personally a tad bit off. And about the future thing, microsoft's sleek and sharp UI could also be considered modern-enough-to-be-able-to-evolve-into-the-future, so its not considered unusual not to obsess over roundness!

As I've (hopefully) mentioned before, I just used ubuntu fonts (regular, mono & bold). Nothing else! Though, if I were redesigning other UIs, I'd atleast consider mixing in some other font aswell :D (Maybe something unique for messages?)

SupertigerDev commented 3 years ago

I'm really bad at picking stuff xD so if you could suggest which fonts I could use in which places, please let me know.

About the rounded corners, the next windows version will have a lot of rounded corners. I just love them :D

edit: looking closer, it seems like you do have rounded corners, im dumb xD