Columnar alignment

4 Responses

1. elliottcable

   (ArchLinux AMIs: bundle.sh @ 2c075a4, lines 285 ‒ 302)

   Vertical repetition allows a reader to zero in on the differences between the individual lines much more quickly, especially when you use alignment and negative space to emphasize the differences even more.

   about 1 year ago

2. elliottcable

   (P.S. I know Dribbble isn’t Forrst. I’m not posting my code as code, I’m posting it as visual art. I consider source code a medium for artistic expression, hence why I’m posting my work here in this way. I’ll be trying to post shots from various languages / markups, in various styles; anything I consider to be visually interesting. I also may be adjusting the hilighting and typography to make the shots more visually appealing.)

   about 1 year ago

3. Pro Stelian Vasile

   Haha, hey man, I don't understand a thing, but it looks indeed nice. Interesting approach to your portfolio. :D

   about 1 year ago

4. elliottcable

   Thanks! I appreciate it.

   Yeah, I’m not posting them here for the code itself to be understood by the Dribbble audience; hell, in many of the shots, portions important to understanding the purpose are cropped out by the edges of the 400 × 300 restriction. Instead, they’re a study of a particular form of content design: when the given restriction of the medium is that the only control available to you is of the *arrangement* of the content. It’s a sort of grid-based (monospace is a grid, after all; in addition, we have the secondary grid of tab-stops to consider) exercise in a very basic Swiss Style form.

   about 1 year ago