If you look at the data, it’s a mess. The thickness is all over the place, nothing is identical. But I’ve resisted any attempt to clean it up, because then it wouldn’t be Meta any more, it would be a mechanical clone. And that’s the challenge for all of us — to create warmth in a digital world. Not many people can do it. You see a lot of stuff that looks great but simply doesn’t turn you on. It’s like making a song on a synthesizer. To make a drum machine sound good is really difficult — you might as well play real drums. We’re still analogue beings. Our brains and eyes are analogue.
Erik Spiekermann
They know what they're doing lol. By having the bar jut in on the G on the bottom you're adding a lot of added visual weight to the bottom; the slight changes they made make it visually look like it's a continuous flow; a perfect circle would almost look blocky.
the thing about the cursor is that is set to the line height and it needs to be that way in case you drop in alower case "g" or "y" or anything else that will dip 3px below the line.
It's not supposed to be perfectly circular. If it was, then it would be. All the angles are not supposed to be perfectly adjacent, if they were, then they would be.
trippy_grape on September 25th, 2017 at 15:28 UTC »
Erik SpiekermannThey know what they're doing lol. By having the bar jut in on the G on the bottom you're adding a lot of added visual weight to the bottom; the slight changes they made make it visually look like it's a continuous flow; a perfect circle would almost look blocky.
TheMacPhisto on September 25th, 2017 at 18:12 UTC »
the thing about the cursor is that is set to the line height and it needs to be that way in case you drop in alower case "g" or "y" or anything else that will dip 3px below the line.
burrrpong on September 25th, 2017 at 20:05 UTC »
It's not supposed to be perfectly circular. If it was, then it would be. All the angles are not supposed to be perfectly adjacent, if they were, then they would be.