They messed up blinking, which shouldn’t be hard to fix… (he said ignoring huge internationalization issues)
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…and it bothers me and catches my attention when e.g. 9:59 becomes 10:00, and everything moves to the left in the tray area.
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One solution for this is fixed space, but that’ll create weird padding in the morning.
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Another one is finding a monospace font that looks good, and doesn’t look out of place. I don’t know if SF Mono is that.
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If not… if they just fix blinking, I think they’re not doing badly. Monospace digits might be a bit of skeuomorphism in this case.
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My main issue with any size change is altering the hit targets for the menubar icons, which are often small. +
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Can you give an example? I want to understand this better.
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Replying to @mwichary
Menubar icons and text are my life.
We really can make ours better though. +@eli_schiff1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @marcedwards @eli_schiff
Here’s an idea: responsive design, with one breakpoint for hours 0–9, and one for hours 11–23. *hides*
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Replying to @mwichary
Definitely an issue. I agree that I prefer the look of proportional numbers. I just think in this case, it’s worse. +
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BTW I’ve been sitting on a Medium post about different types of numerals for half a year. It’s like 95% done.
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