Using Type will pick this back up on Thursday. I hope we don’t get too comfortable with type and typography in its present form. Just to conclude these thoughts for now, I know we’ve taken a hard road to get where we are with webfonts actually working as well as they do, but I wonder if it isn’t time to move on. And just outside of easy reach are movement, perspective, and direct manipulation of a font’s masters, (meaning that the type would respond fluidly across changes in weight, width, or any other arbitrarily defined axis, such as serious to playful, futurist to humanist, Persian to Arabic). Others within present reach are the font’s weight, color, style or family. The obvious ones are things like font size, length of measure, line height, margins, etc. Back closer to the here and now, things like region, location, position in space, current speed/momentum, ambient light (value and color temperature) and proximity to other devices are additional conditions to consider. If projected, the position, color, texture, and motion of the object(s) onto which the content is projected could open interesting possibilities. Also, things like facial expressions, or the part of the screen on which the the viewer’s eyes are focused may be particularly useful. Size of output, intended purpose of the design, number of persons viewing the content, one Nick Sherman pointed out that I mentioned last week: distance from eyes to the reading surface, are all huge factors in how best to show content. Conditions that may elicit one or more appropriate responses And there’s a step in between that deals with how capable and trustworthy the data that measures the conditions is, and how reliably an appropriate response can be formulated and made. Here’s how I break it down: There are conditions that can be measured, and there are responses that the design can make. And this is a good starting point, but really only one avenue to explore among the many I alone see. This problem is something that can be helped by responsive typography. It was lighter, but it had also subtly lost its character in the new environment.
He was discussing how for his app, Ai Writer, Nitti Light worked perfectly but after Apple introduced its higher resolution Retina display, the type was all wrong. Oliver Reichenstein touched on this in a talk he gave at TYPO San Francisco.
Often the design transforms along a small set of three or four base layouts, separated by discrete breakpoints. To most in the field, responsive design means controlling the presentation of a webpage through some carefully written CSS that checks the minimum width of the viewport and rearranges the layout, reflowing the copy and bumping the size of the text up or down accordingly. So rather than a show and tell, where I say ‘here’s how it’s done,’ I’m instead focusing on pushing the boundaries of what’s considered responsive design just a little, and giving a few pointers along the way. The fact is - even if we limit the scope of our interest to technologies that are currently accessible and mainstream - we still live well under our privilege when it comes to what’s possible with responsive typography. Opening my mind to all the ways I can think up for how responsive type can work has generated a great delay in me actually coming up with a coherent message on how it’s done.
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