Archetype

Create beautiful web typography designs, in the browser

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Archetype makes beautiful web typography designs quick and easy to create. Pick the right fonts then set harmonious sizing and spacing relationships directly in the browser with just a few clicks. See your design how your users will then export as CSS to send to a developer or a Sketch file to become part of a design system.
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Web App•Design Tools•Typography
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Martin Ollivere
Maker
Hi there, we'd love to know what you think of our latest offering: a tool to help designers quickly and easily create typography for digital projects live in the browser. We hope that it can become an integral part of designing a system of consistent, re-useable components. See how it works here in this video: https://youtu.be/lN-O-JonhDI Thank you very much in advance for your input.
Dre Durr💡
I was confused on where to start until I watched the youtube video. Very Dope🚬🚬
Martin Ollivere
Maker
@dredurr Hi Deandre, thank you very much for your comment. We created the video as a first pass at some onboarding but have some plans for some more integrated guides as to what to do and why when first landing on the site. We also had ideas for a 'Typeschool' that can teach more about the underlying best practices Archetype is based on. If you'd find any of those things useful would be very keen to hear your thoughts
Samantha Zhang
Nice project! I hope the text can be aligned on baseline not in the middle of the horizontal grid tho.
Martin Ollivere
Maker
@moyicat Hi Samantha, thank you very much for your feedback. The text currently sits in the middle of the lines due to the way CSS line-height works, it adds padding above and below the text to achieve the desired spacing. There are some fiddly work arounds to try and set the text to the baseline but we wanted to keep things as simple as possible with this first version. I'll let @jamiegilman wade in here if required as he is the front-end expert. Thank you again for the comment, just the kind of feedback we need. If you have any other thoughts do please let us know
Samantha Zhang
@martinollivere @jamiegilman Yay so happy that you want to look into it. Check out https://github.com/jakegiltsoff/... . I like their approach for baseline alignment with SASS mixins.
Martin Ollivere
Maker
@moyicat @jamiegilman That's great, thanks for sharing
Jamie Gilman
Maker
@moyicat @martinollivere Thanks for your input Samantha, and for the Sassline link, it's very interesting. The difficulty with aligning directly to the baseline of the grid is that the cap-size of the font family is required for the calculation, which is different for each font family and isn't available from the Google fonts API. It could be that we provide an input field for the user for the cap-size of the font family, and in the same way as Sassline, the user would tweak this to get the right value. It's an interesting feature we'll certainly consider, especially if we have more similar feedback. Thanks!
Samantha Zhang
@jamiegilman @martinollivere Yup definitely more complicated to allow that ... I think a dynamic slider would be a nice UI for people who are not familiar with the cap-size concept.