Sooo I tried "Flow" from Dan Ross
6 years ago from Joacim Nilsson, Interaction Designer & Developer
6 years ago from Joacim Nilsson, Interaction Designer & Developer
Just a detail but I noticed that you forgot to close that p-tag on line 57.
..that looks really nice. Shame it's useless :D
It's a typeface for wireframing. What do you mean useless (:
I meant as a coding typeface
It's just expert mode
Bonus points if your keyboard is blank. At that point, it's just master mode.
I used it in my new wireframes and actually, it saves some time. I wouldn't call it useless.
I meant as a coding typeface
the OP is a joke.
I know. My original message obviously didn't across what I wanted too nvm.
Gorgeous. I tried it myself:
Nice scifi movie interface.
Your Sublime example is actually pretty beautiful...
As a couple people have already mentioned - Flow is a typeface for** early prototype low fidelity mockups**.
On a side not if you ever needed a mockup of a code editor without showing code - that's a great way to do it!
Was about to say the same. This would be really handy for marketing sites too where you want to abstract the interface a little bit.
This would be useful in very low-fi wireframes. Anything beyond that and you're doing yourself a disservice in not using real words (not necessarily the final copy, but something close).
At that point, might as well do paper sketches...
Well yes, there is that - so why have this in the first place. I do understand it has an aesthetic people enjoy.
My thoughts exactly... I would not call it a typeface for Wireframing. Wireframes without at least a minimum of content experience are way too high level and could be seen as useless... At the point you're doing wireflows or userflows. Useful for pretty illustrations/visuals.
Looks nice :) But I have to agree with Trev - I don't really see that the typeface is that useful for wireframing at all, as using real words that evoke semantics is half of the point of producing the wireframe.
Maybe it could be good for loading states? Even then, I think loading in a typeface in place of CSS shapes might be a little overkill
you honestly can't see a usecase for this font?
You've clearly never worked with developers that literally think wireframes are actual designs and lorem ipsum is real text.
I envy you.
This is almost the same as the Blokk typeface http://www.blokkfont.com/
I've tried that for my own wireframes and it never vibed with me due to the odd way it handles its 'font sizes' or whatever it is at this point.
Font-size works fine for me, not sure what's your issue. But hey, I like Flow, having round corners is useful.
It's just that concept is the same as Blokk, which was done 4 years ago, so "that" deserves credit.
Some differences between Flow and Blokk: • 3 weights/styles • Variable width characters • Improved line-height (to match SF)
Not sure about what Blokk supports but Flow will have: • Extended Latin character support (Update on 24th July) • Cyrillic character support (Update on 24th July)
Don't want to sound harsh but in my personal experience, If there is one useful thing I get from UX Wireframes, it is the content. Because wireframes are generally either very low-fidelity or very conventional anyway. Hope I don't see this thing used around a lot... (:
I like it's aesthetics, it would work wonders on illustrations or if you want to abstract an idea. But none of these qualities are what I expect from a wireframe.
Soooo... I read Joacim Nilsson's comment and didn't notice any constructive criticism. Thanks Dan for trying something !
I really like the font :D
I know it's meant for very early stage of wireframing or when you doing som generic designs so the user can get the point that it's text.
This was more of a joke to me when I added it to Sublime :D
I appreciate this thread a lot! I'm learning how people are using Flow, and I got a really good laugh out of it.
I never thought of using Flow the way Joacim did, and it visually looks great! Obviously not usable, but beautiful. Thanks for all the support!
I was looking at the leftmost pane and thought, "this looks strikingly similar to a .vue file", then looked up at the tab bar. ;)
Good use with the block framing workflow. :D https://medium.com/ux-power-tools/blockframing-and-31-free-sketch-ready-layouts-using-auto-layout-by-anima-app-1be039007ecf
this blocky kind of wireframe font doesn't show the rise and fall natural to language. It doesn't convey the flow and movement of text (even though it's called flow)
Here's what I use- Redacted Font: https://github.com/christiannaths/Redacted-Font
It looks more like scribbles and I think looks more like what I would draw on a paper prototype.
I would rather see a typeface that flows like real letters but can't be read as a language—the visual equivalent of Simlish (language used in Sims)
This definitely has a use, but I'd stress to have real copy as early as possible. Check Getting Real by 37Signals, here's a note snippet from it:
Use real text vs. Lorem ipsum ideally (text is not a shape, it is valuable information to read). Real copy helps determine how long certain fields should be, how expand/contracts should look, and what your app truly looks like.
True, but good luck writing an entire magazine spread just to "block out what it looks like". That was one of the benefits of using lorem ipsum in the first place—it provided a general word count easily and consistently for editorial layouts.
I usually produce the content before I start the design. So 95% of the times i use real text. But as I said above.
It can be used with generic designs.
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