Flow - A typeface built for wireframing

Nice work, Dan. I've tried others (Blokk) but just bought yours and it looks great. Web fonts included is appreciated, too. For those asking "what's this for"... it's OK in wireframes, but I also find this useful in several ways. E.g. If you want to show an interaction and keep ppl from getting caught up on the actual content (it's more effective than dingbats or saying "ignore the copy", IMO). Or when I am looking for very pedantic feedback -- ppl get that it's "words" but they don't have to pay attention them. It can also be useful to swap out all/some live text on a site or app to get a kind of "squint test" (gut check visual hierarchy, evaluate just the UI labels, etc).

Hey everyone, I'm Dan. I'm a designer from Australia, now living in Canada. Design tools are my passion, and I wanted to share my latest project with you. Flow is a typeface built for wireframing. The font comes in three weights – circular, rounded, and block. It’s a little project I’ve been working on, and I'd love for you to take a look. Designing with real content is important, but sometimes we need something more abstract. Flow aims to provide an efficient and flexible way to create abstracted/placeholder content in your designs. Some features • 3 weights/styles • Variable width characters • Improved space width • Improved line-height Now supports (Updated 24/07/2015): • Extended Latin character support • Cyrillic character support

Interesting, but took me a while to figure what it really is.

I downloaded it and I'm definitely gonna use it to test it out. But I'm curious what the real benefits are in your opinion. I'd say making the text box "responsive" is probably a big one?

I'm not sure what I think about this. As an interaction designer who works across web and mobile, I'm yet to encounter an interaction that I've prototyped that has benefited from not having accurate (or at least draft/v1) copy. When I use lipsum or similar, it creates uncertainty, and the question 'who is going to write this copy?' comes up often. I suppose this is a good thing because it gets stakeholders thinking about the copy as a discrete task for a specialist to complete. However, I strongly believe that copy and labels make up a huge part of designing interactions of any complexity level. Designers should have enough confidence in their communication skills that they can write the first version of the copy, and get at least 65%-70% of the way there. If your placeholder copy is so bad that it's throwing stakeholders off, then I'd recommend spending some time brushing up on your writing. It's a very valuable skill that cross-populates into almost everything you do as a designer.

this is great. i wish the bars could be slightly taller to match the height of an actual typeface to help better represent accurate line-height. at the moment it looks like i have a huge line-height.