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interfacesketch | 11 years ago | on: Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2

Anyone have any other suggestions like these?

Source Sans Pro is Adobe's first open source typeface and was designed by Paul D Hunt. It was specifically designed for user interfaces, and is available in multiple weights. I think the regular weight also works well for body text.

https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=...

The font is also available on Google fonts

Shameless plug: I use Source Sans Pro on my website if you want to see an example of what it looks like for body text and headlines :-)

http://www.interfacesketch.com/

interfacesketch | 11 years ago | on: Flat UI Colors

Sorry you're having trouble with the site. I just tried visiting and it loads ok at my end.

Here's a direct link to one of the designs (PNG image: the file is quite large at 2.7mb)

http://www.interfacesketch.com/wikipedia/wikipedia-article-r...

interfacesketch | 11 years ago | on: Flat UI Colors

"As a user I like the flat UI concept not because of the flatness, but because of the colours"

I did an unsolicited redesign of a wikipedia article page a few months ago (mostly a tweak to the current layout). Although Wikipedia is a website rather than an app, the site's pages are are quite stark and many pages feel bereft of colour. In my (unsolicited) redesign I added colour to soften the appearance of the page and to highlight elements. Are the colours superfluous? Or do they make the page or site more pleasant to read? Opinions very welcome :-)

http://www.interfacesketch.com/wikipedia/

interfacesketch | 11 years ago | on: Minimal Wikipedia redesign concept

Thanks very much! I wanted to keep all the existing features of an article page rather than eliminate anything. I think it's possible to do this while making the page feel a little less busy and cluttered.

interfacesketch | 11 years ago | on: Minimal Wikipedia redesign concept

Thanks. I think the structure and organisation of articles on Wikipedia is pretty sound, but some visual tweaks can help make the page more easily scannable and a litte bit more aesthetically pleasing (which I realise is a very subjective thing!)

interfacesketch | 11 years ago | on: Minimal Wikipedia redesign concept

I hope I'm not hijacking this thread in any way by posting a link to my Wikipedia redesign attempt. It's not actual code - just a visual mock-up. I posted it a while ago to Hacker News but would love to hear feedback

http://www.interfacesketch.com/wikipedia/

interfacesketch | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Wikipedia article page redesign (unsolicited)

Thankyou for the feedback! I wanted to add a splash of colour to the page so it didn't feel too monotonous, but it sounds like I may have chosen too strong a shade of cyan/blue!

interfacesketch | 12 years ago | on: Make Your Own Grid Paper

[Shameless plug] If you want A4 or US letter gridded paper for sketching a mobile, web or tablet UI, I have a bunch of free ones on my site.

http://www.interfacesketch.com

interfacesketch | 12 years ago | on: Anybody else hating web fonts lately?

I have a website[1] that uses web fonts[2]. I have found that if you host the fonts yourself and compress the font files using Font Squirrel's web font generator service, you can get fairly small font sizes. I'm using two font weights (regular and bold) and the total comes to 104kb. Admittedly, that's quite large for a mobile website, but I think it's acceptable for a desktop site.

I've found the font files served by Google fonts are quite large and this is probably because their fonts contain the entire character set. Font Squirrel strips out characters it thinks are not needed.

[1] http://www.interfacesketch.com [2] The font I'm using http://www.behance.net/gallery/ALEO-Free-Font-Family/8018673