>_< am i the first to see this?

bahhh!!!!

edit:

omg... april rooolzzz!!!!

>_< first to post, first to be the fool !!

I’ve been considering something similar to this for my own site. It is nice to see it in action and working so well.

Yes, please. Larger text size and more repeating background shapes. The logo truly speaks of freshness. And rebirth. And fertility.

Electron blazing logos are way cool.

I think more organisations should use them.

Mild crit: it is very “flat”… perhaps you could have added some shading… or a lighting effect… or both.

Keep up the good work.

Best
Richard

It is as if my dream of becoming very tiny and inhabiting the fabric of one of Ronald Reagan’s suits has come true. I never want to wake up.

In Camino and Firefox, the type size can be pretty small, and type sizes seem to differ from post to post. Increasing type size only works for some posts while others are still in small print.)  :)

> If you see any bugs

I see Bugs Bunny

I’ve had the same experience with Firefox and Safari. The type is so small that poor middle-aged guys can barely read it.

Other than that, it’s an interesting re-design.

Jim Tubman
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
“The Stampede City”

Folks, have you tried this in Safari Webkit Nightly Build r31447?
Webfonts rrrride, and wreak havoc on Typophile!

One minor bug: Dezcom has to update his icon, I guess. Looks like his Veil of Veronica.
For the record:

its cool but cant you add sum animayshun? also, im looking for a font that work’s with trebuchet. thx!!

1. Please lose the puke inducing background. Pointless decoration. It serves no purpose and is distracting.
2. It might only be my eyes but the white on black gives the text a slight blur.
3. Fix the Firefox text size bug.
I’m all for change but this seems too gimmicky, given the nature of the forum.

this redesign is brilliant (except the logo needs to be squooshed® more, if possible, just a personal preference)

keep up the amazing work, and ignore the h8ers! :P

Congrats, this is so today!

The repeated shape with the colors and the lines in the background are so ugly. Common guys is this the best you can do? I used to love logging into the old typophile and enjoy reading anything within the old design. Change is great but usually a redesign goes from something bad to a something better. In this case its the opposite. How long do we need to suffer with this design?

K J

This is the sort of thing that might provoke the Inquisitor!*

For some reason it is still impressive as hell that you can do this on a dime even if I already knew in you could. :-)

I am longing to see a real redesign if one exists!

*The Inquisitor is a self-repairing simulant who survived until the end of time and, coming to the conclusion that there is no God and no afterlife, decided that the only point of life was to live a worthwhile life. He is on a journey through time, seeking out the worthless and erasing them from existence, allowing a different person to exist in their place — the person who would have been conceived. And yes, I am getting my Geek-on! This is a Red Dwarf reference.

In Win XP + IE 6.0, most texts are far too small:

see http://www.sanskritweb.net/temporary/typesize.gif

> we have redesigned our identity to include the futuristic electron blazing

The Typophysical Society (?)

FINALLY!!!

Christian, you RAWK. I bet you had to sneak in this redesign while Joe and Jared were looking the other way. More power to ya, I say. BIGGER TYPE is the way to go — So say we all!! I’d say every post should be set in 60 pt. The more pixels we use up, the better. In fact, add some more colors to the background, if you can squeeze ’em in there. Keep up the good work!

This is nice but where is the giant RSS button?

Ah, at last a design we can all be proud of. 2 suggestions though:

- this is all a bit static... you should consider putting some animated gifs here and there.

- the typeface, though very legible now that the size is a-ok, is still a little bit monotone: why not using this really nice comic sans? it would add a pinch of fun.

keep up the good job, kisses from istanbul.

dr

Well, I have a problem with this layout. In the forum page (http://www.typophile.com/forums) the table of topics ’crop’ the text, so I need to to reduce the text size.

may i know which part of comic sans is nice?
a pinch of fun? Damn i thought this was a real type forum

April, April

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Fixed background out of the dead land, mixing
Futuristic electron blazing around the word mark
[. . .]

cR@aAzZY sTyYyYle!!!:P :) :D ;) ;)

i miss a vote somewhere! ;o)
i am looking forward to when 1st of april is over, so typophile can be used again.

Comment from a newcomer:
»Type 101« and »Type 110« are not working properly.

This is cool! But where can I put a forum signature? And why don’t each of our comments have a link to our AIM and ICQ numbers?

IT’S FKN UGLY!!!!!!!! muha

What a nightmare!
Type is something everybody uses everywhere in all colors, shapes forms. The first thing a type lover would expect in a forum for type is to see TYPE! clear blunt and beautiful.

the redesign simply fails to do that.
Although too dark (don’t we all assess type, black on white?) the stripped background is witty enough, but what are those watermark logo repetition?
And an ellipse for a typography forum?! Come on guys! That’s your best shot to give Typophile a cutting edge in design? “futuristic electron blazing” is like on of those tag lines of the nineties!
It definitely lacks confidence and the real-substance attitude.

Typofile seems to immature with age.

Yeah, that design is hideous. I hope, tomorrow the “real” design will be up. If not, I’ll post my constructive criticism here... Wow, that’d be a lot!

Where can I get white fonts from?
I really like what you’ve done. It brings retro right up-to-date, very 1995.
Now it’s almost perfect (although the use of Eras would have been the icing on the cake).
The one trick you missed out on is a nice animated logo...no wait, you had that last time...

Very 1995 indeed. But for the tables. fully using valid HTML+CSS is anything but retro. Come on guys, you can do better: let the tables rule! Bring in some transparent-gif spacer images,...!

:(

It’s a joke? Isn’t it? If not, I think, James have chosen exact the right time to leave ...

What date is it today? ;-)

Maybe if I could read it, I’d have a comment.

How about a switch, so those that only want to look can have the new format; those that want to read can have the old format?

Cooper White?
Typophile is always on the bleeding edge of design innovation.
And you haven’t disapointed this time either.
Black is the new black. Stunning.
I’m thinking of redesigning my site in this new style (shall we call it ’WebNoir 1.0).
Unfortunately my chosen body copy font could be a problem.
I’m thinking of using Cooper Black.
Does anyone have a link to a reversed-out (Cooper White?) version of the font?
TIA.

Also, are there any Tippex-effect grunge fonts (I already have Caslon Chalk Board Roman)

mmmmm, the first of april. just threw up when i saw this and more than just a little. *wiping mouth*

Hehe, this thingi doesn’t work and is looking ugly, you know that for sure. No problemo for me, because you will certainly change back tommorow.

So… have fun

Yowser! Hilarious, but: I’ll come back tomorrow.

_________________________________________________
Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster’s stopped working.

Actually, the design is UNREADABLE. And must be a joke, however I cannot bear without Typophile not a single day, so I have switched off style sheets and am looking at the plain HTML in my browser. I’m really happy you did not apply inline styles ;-)

It’s funny: it’s supposed to be a joke, but there are actually some nice things in it: The increased type size, the fast loading because the Flash is gone, the large text buttons (“7 new comments”) …

Well, guys, you heard it: white is the new black!

I am so happy I have Firefox with Webdeveloper plugin to actually keep on reading posts. Hurray for user stylesheets!

Happy April Fools everyone. ^___^

hi sort of new here so will tread carefully.

Ok I opened Safari, opened my quick bookmarks, turned away from the monitor, to turn back and see the new design.First I threw my hands in the air and away from the keyboard just incase the return key blows my Mac, “oh s*%t!!! the forum has been hacked!!!” delve further to find that it is the new design. I don’t know what I was more afraid of, the hack or the new design. At least the hack would be temporary.

Then considering the elements and the background all I see are nose rings, navel rings... any kind of piercing ring with the ball (do a search on google)... and a Don Johnson shiny brown, olive to yellow suit.

Looked at the date on the calendar... aha!... I mean phew!... ahem...

talented people

It is a joke - right? April First, 2008.

It is faster, though...

I second Ralf:
Flash is nice for the ‘Featured Face’, but it seems to have noticeable slowed down the performance. Big text: yeah; actually I didn’t notice, as I always have overridden the tiny default with my browser settings.
And: finally I can spot the inline hyperlinks, hooray! (though they don’t have to be green …)

For the next (real) update: Can’t we have <blockquote> and some other semantic, non-hazardous elements? And please allow <b> and <i>, too. In a typographic community, not everything that may be italicized is really meant to be emphasized.

you bet!!!!

i´ll pray this would be only a april 1st joke :)

If only there was a way to have black text on a white background AND no Flash.

All on the same site.

Then we really would be laughing.

Ah well, maybe tomorrow?

A ugly joke!!!!

Love the redesign. And it’s high time it happened, too. Now we can kick back and wait for Hrant to weigh in about the notanic aspects of it all. ;)

Cheers,
Ernie

YOU GUYS SCARED ME TO DEATH!!!!

I almost belivd this was real!

btw, my eyes buuurrrnnnn

-

www.nunocoelho.com

I second you on that Ralf: having no Flash is a real improvement. I hope you dump the flash opening in the new “real” redesign as well, typophiliacs!

I’m going to redesign my site to look like this!!! It’s great!

I really like the new logo, that spot on the ’i’ and the loop... well... make my day.
I guess I will rename DSType into something with an ’i’ just to do something like that.

I just think I will put some more color... maybe yellow text on green background.

Dino

IS THIS APRIL’S FOOL JOKE?
it better be! :-S

I am truely in shock to see how many people (and a lot of new faces here) took this whole thing seriously. one even thought I was serious when I was praising comic sans.

jee... april fools, guys. there is really a lot of fools here today.

dr

Beautiful :)
Which reminds me: did you read about http://www.typotheque.com/news/typotheque_acquires_the_new_york_times/ ?

-=®=-ha ha very funny. Now geme back my old typophile. Or make get a bit of animation to the electrons in the background orbit. At about 3 times a second

Awww, I only saw this in the afternoon, and had already forgotten to look for hoaxes. What a beautiful new logo and tasteful colour scheme! The favicon looks interesting, too.

where am I?

My RETINAS!!!!

I don’t remember falling into that time machine. The future is scary. Oh my gawd, one of my eyes just failed. Typophile 8.0 Epic Fail (do they still say that in the future?!)

LOL ROFL WYSIWYG AOAA
FWIW
Could you make the logo bigger?

I thought my browser was on the fritz. I liked the previous homepage because you could see a lot of the new/popular topics without having to scroll anywhere. Who hit the logo with the 90’s day-glo stick?

The colors don’t seem to match the typophile sublogos-i mean the “support” icons. It’s two completely different schemes.

This isn’t an april fools joke, is it?

Kegler,
I think it would also help to have this playing in the background
http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/make_the_logo_bigger_the_song.html

In the thread http://typophile.com/node/43420, I get posts of all the following sizes

0.41333333333333em; 0.44666666666667em; 0.44em; 0.46em; 0.47333333333333em; 0.48em; 0.4em; 0.51333333333333em; 0.52em; 0.54666666666667em; 0.54em; 0.56666666666667em; 0.60666666666667em; 0.61333333333333em; 0.64em; 0.67333333333333em; 0.69333333333333em; 0.72666666666667em; 0.77333333333333em; 0.78em; 0.81333333333333em; 0.82666666666667em; 0.82em; 0.84666666666667em; 0.88666666666667em; 0.88em; 0.92666666666667em; 0.93333333333333em; 0.97333333333333em; 0.98em; 1.0266666666667em; 1.02em;

What’s the next number?

Michel

JUST HAS TO BE AN APRIL FOOLS!

I especially love the bright yellow on pale pink. Genius.

I was so ready for my first gag of the day. But I’ve been had and Typophile was the first of the day to get me.

Now I’m going to change my pants.

If you collide the p and the o, and rotated it 90º you could build in the 8, or put a double sphere on your Prince Albert, sorry Futuristic Electron.
Tim

Can you be bribed by a really big donation to change back to the old design?

This is gorgeous. It is so... “in your face”. Totally not what I expected of Typophile. ;-)

I will now quietly turn away, come back tomorrow, and act like this day never happened.

I am always delayed in catching online april fool’s day jokes.

Seriously folks the “NEW” threads button works!

This redesign is brilliant, I am humbled.
I have one more suggestion, though. You should make more use of the Blink tag.
You might not have heard of this design technique yet, since it’s so cutting edge.

Let me know if you need any help with that.
- you’re welcome,

Jason C

I have always been a big fan of dark blue type on a black background - I think it would add a lot to the redesign. White is so empty looking.

Awesome!

You might also try the blink option on some of your graphics. That always impresses!

If it is not a joke, it must be. What was wrong with the old design? It seems that it worked quite well.

I hope size text of this message will be sufficient to be read.

I don’t like it. Sorry. :(

CH

Wow, in this thread you can tell at a glance who has a sense of humor! Amazing how many people took this seriously.

Brilliant! All that’s missing is the animated gifs. Where is Aziz when you need him.

(umm... and now that we get it can we go back to the real design please? otherwise you will lose me until tomorrow)

OOOh, a swooshy logo. We have finally become real graphic designers.

(I’m sad because this one is not going to appear in the microscopic text ... I’m hoping they will be readable tomorrow so I can see what people really said.)

My favorite part is that my avatar is a ghost of its former self :-)

Where are the pop-up ads and gradient blends? I could use a bit more 3D effect and WAY MORE COWBELL! :-)

ChrisL

I’d like to see a big rainbow gradient inside the new swoosh... and more dropshadows.. on everything. And 3D animated gifs... much more of them please.

… and dolphins

I think the “Saturn-ring” things should have been Web2.0’d but other than that guys, KUDOS!

(and of course by kudos I mean my eyeballs are bleeding. Happy 4/1 to me.)

Ralph, nice point!

Mili, thanks for the link!

Thirty years ago today instead of driving my daughters to school, I took them to the dentist’s office and told them I had forgoten to tell them about their appointment. This “redesign” is in that class.

Happy Fools Day! I hope you are kidding.
This website is so confusing, unreadable and kitch that, after all, seems to be a funny joke.
Tomorrow you’ll go back to the old design, I bet!

My favorite April Fools was: sitting in a restaurant with my brother and sister-in-law. When she came back from the bathroom we said “OMG you just missed her, Julia Roberts walked by. She was going that way.”. Sister-in-law tore out of the restaurant and down the street, came back in looking absolutely crestfallen having missed her.

I love the way the menu changes on hover :-)

Jeez! What a surprise!
8-O
Looking forward to the switch back tomorrow, but I will miss the increased speed of this redesign... No, really - this forum is the slowest I’ve ever frequented...

The thing that scares me is that this thread started before April 1st. Is that just in some time zones? Like many others, I hope this is a joke, because the ’headline’ effect is really pointless, and the posts themselves are hard to read (comfortably) because of the small type size and the white on black lettering.

And why is the background bigger than the text field? There’s nothing of typographical significance in most of it, so why not let the posts fill more of the screen?

Some change is good, but this was like running amok.

- Mike Yanega

I like it because the background is one of my colors. So if I lay my head on the screen, I look GOOD!!!!!

Sharon

CHRISTIAN!! ZARA!!!

Report to my office IMMEDIATELY.

Can’t even read one thread in the spirit of April Fool’s.

pbc

One thing I do like about the redesign is the Previous/Next thread links in each thread. Please please please keep these.

- Lex

What can I say? Love it, but not sure about the red in the footer.

johno
iLT

You guys should take some cues from this guy:

http://www.myspace.com/soybuddha

He knows what he’s doing.

Both being a huge traumatic experience...

(edit: in reply to Charles Leonard)

Roger: indeed the slowest.
However, this does not keep you from not only visiting, but even frequenting it ;-)

I HEV BEN LOOKING FOR SIGHT DEZYNES TOo STEALL FOR MY NEXT INTERWEBNETS UPDATE. I HAS FOUND NEW D’ZYNAGE HERE.

I keep feeling lost in this april twillight zone. Where’s the princess?

wattsisname:

like this?

http://www.hoppala.net/banner/bild%20gaby.gif

(This is actually used at the homepage of a decent restaurant. The homepage is cca. worse than the “April 1 design” of Typophile: http://www.hoppala.net/)

we need more magenta!

Almost got me. April 1st is awesome!

April fools day...

What a friggin eyesore.
Can typophile members send you the optical medical bills this year?...

April fools day...

What a friggin eyesore.
Can typophile members send you the optical medical bills this year?...

Good lord that’s cold. I was completely taken.

lol, great. If it was real it would be horrible, though. ;)

you could have done better, guy.

This is a joke, right? The old site
is coming back I assume.

HAHAHAHAHA! You had me!

—-
eeblet.com

I completely fell for it. Those were several moments of genuine and complete terror. Beautifully done.

You had me at “electron”, that is.

I’m lost! What’s happen to Typophile? It’s a joke for sure... >///·>

arrrg ...off with the joke layout already , hehe

I think the only thing that could make this better is if each post was in a different, obnoxiously bright color. And I second the movement for some moving gifs. Beautiful.

;-)

This actually helps me today! I have so much work to get done, so at least I won’t be tempted to spend all day on here, instead! Thanks, guys.

This is a joke, right? It is hideous, type in Firefox much too small, background very hideous, white type on black awful, sans serif type horrible idea, in short, do something else.

Dear Christian, Its 2nd April now.
Can we please have our Typophile back?

Seriously, this is the worst composed forum that I’ve ever been to.

the fonts at variable sizes in each post make it ness. to change sizes as one is reading from post to post, which looses your place and forces scrolling to find the text you were trying to read. This alone is an “I’m outta here” issue.

the use of the first words of a post as a headline is not a good idea, because posting participants are not writing headlines.

the separation of the avatar from the name and time of the post is not useful.

the uncontrollable switch between a white and black backgrounded type is for what?

I came today to see if it was or wasn’t related to yesterday’s day,

Fare well, kindly let me know when this borders on reasonable composition, or not.

Cheers!

I still think it’s an “April Fish” but I still hope It’s a joke. Will we have to deal with that redesign?Lots of work to get something easy to read. You will have to change the background,there is too much vibration with the red and green line. The electron on background is not a good idea neither the gradiant yellow to black. Yes I’d like to see text larger. Please come back with the text in black on white background. :^/

I believe the change is on its way already. The tracking doesn’t work today and earlier I couldn’t get in at all.

Ummm… Can we please go back to the previous design now? It’s April 2nd.

;-)

Oh, thank god...

I was going through typophile.com withdrawal. I couldn’t access the forum for a few hours. I was convulsing on the office floor. I realized I would rather go with the joke redesign than go without typophile.

Welcome back.

It must have been harder to undo than expected. There was a couple hour period of fall from grace before the rollback.

ChrisL

>this is the worst composed forum that I’ve ever been to

Yes, a triumph of bad design—congratulations Christian! The ’best’ were the alternating stripes/colors which actually induced nausea.

I was blinded but now I can see, miracles can happen.

Was so scared I almost cried :)

Mmmm, much better!

Now we need to discuss all the features that were included in the new version that aren’t present now!

i finally have “my Typophile” back again. Thanks! and well done for the April 1st. ;^)
>////////·>

I am so happy that readability is back! Grand God, and to commemorate the event I will feed the cat with tuna fish, today.

Ah crap - it was a dream ...sigh.

Hiroshige... You’ve preserved the redesigned logo... Kewl! ;-P

Party like it’s 1995!

phew!!!! back, I appreciate this design EVEN more now!!!... it was like a bad dream that I could not wake from, even though I knew I was dreaming.

I missed the whole thing. Did anyone manage to get a screenshot?

Did anyone take a screen shot? My Typophile experience yesterday was of a site that wouldn’t load.

st

Screenshot: http://flickr.com/photos/zara/2380081177/

The site wouldn’t load because our servers took a major hit yesterday. The traffic spiked around midday (PST) after it had been linked all over the web. Basically, our prank backfired and we broke it. Rather, you all broke it :)

Thank goodness, I was hoping it would be a joke.

Whatever you did caused the whole site to disappear for nearly two days...hope it was worth it. Now, let’s get back to the real problem to be remedied: this site is SO DAMNED SLOW!

awww I missed the funny :(

Some of us got a chuckle out of it. Thanks for the effort, it must have been a lot of work.

ChrisL

I found it to be very funny! LMAO. Especially the teeny, tiny type on some of the posts.

Sharon

to be honest, I’m kinda disappointed that we aren’t going to get an great big animated orbiting electron logo.

-=®=-

I actually got some work done during the eyeball-frying prank and the subsequent outage.

/

seriously.. if you thought that shit was real and LIKED it, you should not be allowed to hang out here.

Hmmm.... And I wondered why my computer wasn’t pulling up Typophile for the past couple of days. Now I can see that it was protecting me and my eyes. :)

From reading some of the posts, I’ve also gained something of an idea of whose critiques to take seriously, and whose to ignore.... ;)

Welcome back.

David Thometz

Ha, damn, what an elaborate april joke, well played.

I was gutted by the looks, irritated by the font size but didn’t come to think of an april joke at all, I just was quite perplexed.

That was a really funny 1st April prank!

I was fooled... for a minute. :)

Great job.

[edited for cadence and brevity]

i’m pretty sure i have a sense of humor, but i’ll never forget the feeling:

too young for a heart attack,
jaded enough to think
somebody might mean this
i’ve seen worse! sorry :b

figured it out but wasn’t amused
’cause it HURT SO BAD :(+!?=[;)]-

A great April Fool’s joke. And like all such good jokes there were a horrible few minutes where I thought “O God, don’t let this be for real.” It was not helped by my having in the past frequented a forum which was designed in that very style, only perhaps worse. And no one there complained about the utter unusability of it as a forum!

This one was very well thought out, and hopefully some other forums will take the hint and change their designs.

My relief at the redesign redesign is - so to speak - unspeakable!

Ronald Kyrmse
ronald.info.ms

Hey, I missed this. Anyone have a screen shot?

Zara has: http://flickr.com/photos/zara/2380081177/