Comments on: helveticons

By: Twitter Icon Guy

Twitter Icon Guy — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:26:05 +0000

+1 vote for the awesome page folds. The site has some accessibility issues which you can see when disabling all CSS. The header image doesn’t un-style(word?) gracefully

By: Tobi

Tobi — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:20:19 +0000

Nice site indeed.
However, it looks to me as if they were selling an adaption of Wingdings N°1. But for $279? You can get a nice type family there.

By: inspirationbit

inspirationbit — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:24:38 +0000

Page fold is an excellent idea, I’m not crazy about its execution though, not too realistic. Really like the icon preview effect, very neat. I wonder what was their reason to use such a tight line-height? Surely with the otherwise great implementation of grids and typography, they must be aware of line-height and legibility as well.

By: Noel Wiggins

Noel Wiggins — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:09:26 +0000

Awesome layout, love the vivid yellow and the css is tight.

But nothing compares to the page folds…

Really is an awesome effect to make this layout have some punch!

By: Tor Løvskogen

Tor Løvskogen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:07:02 +0000

Yes, and the icons…!

By: Kyle Meyer

Kyle Meyer — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:31:04 +0000

@Tor The line-height is my lingering issue as well, but none-the-less, it is a beautiful site.

By: Tor Løvskogen

Tor Løvskogen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:55:26 +0000

What’s with the low line-height?

By: L. E.

L. E. — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:00:40 +0000

Note that there are rules in English for when to use en and em dashes.

Nice review, more constructive criticism to the world! \o/

By: Ludvig Ericson

Ludvig Ericson — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:59:58 +0000

Note that there are rules in English for when to use en and em dashes.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:07:07 +0000

‘Disgusting’ hyphenage in the ‘245 icons - endless possibilities’ heading too. I personally take the view that en dashes are more effective - they don’t interrupt the flow of the text - and that if en dashes must be used, don’t put spaces around them. But there is no right or wrong answer; it’s just the designer’s preference. They’ve used the spaced em elsewhere there, so it makes sense to make it consistent.

Nothing wrong with nitpicking. Nits are nasty.