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Document Driven Typedesign
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Choose: Replace bullets with 1-9 1-9 #52

Closed davelab6 closed 9 years ago

davelab6 commented 9 years ago

The bottom of the choose cards use bullets to paginate the styles in the family. This is a bit 'mystery meat' style navigation.

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 <  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 * 1i 2i 3i 4i 5i 6i 7i 8i 9i >

such that all possible weights are always seen on each card, but only the available weights are active links.

s3thi commented 9 years ago

Some of the fonts I'm working with have weights besides 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900. For example, Roboto Thin is 250. Fira Sans even has fonts with weights 20, 40, 80, etc. How will this UI work with weights like this? Would it be better if I generated the buttons dynamically depending on the weights that are available? Or have a dropdown with all the weights instead of a list of links?

davelab6 commented 9 years ago

The underlying issue is that the navigation is mysterious; you can't predict what you'll get.

A more simple solution will be to have an instant popover under the dots when you hover, similar to that used on the review/test links when less than 2 families are added to the comparison, that shows the string shown as a font style label in the sentence view