brikfont - lego typeface experiments
Expressive tools for thought
I'm excited for all the energy around tools for thought. Some notes on my current thoughts (probably to be revised in future entries).
Blocks as the basic unit
Blocks as a basic, contained, and usually addressable unit feels to me "right". You can see it in Notion and Roam and many others.
Brush as interaction
How do you change things?
I'm interested in users having the ability to personalize websites. I've mainly thought about it as a case for UI that lets you choose different options, probably powered by CSS (see components.ai's CSS.GUI).
My CSS Paint project lets you use a brush. It's interesting to use a brush. Should we let people style their website using a brush to paint styles on to divs?
Almost done with the bare-bones user account and place creation features for the div and CSS building blocks app.
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More work on setting up a system of building blocks using divs, text fields, and CSS.
CSS: end-user styling possibilities
I'm excited about CSS again. After experimenting with making layout-from-scratch apps with WebGL/Three.js in an attempt to avoid the sprawl (and creating my own mini-sprawl in the process) I'm rethinking approaches.
I'm interested in making applications where users customize with their own CSS. My bet is that if we get the initial primitives right, this could allow users to truly customize and feel at home in their spaces.
Benefits
I keep bouncing off ideas for the next Constraint Systems thing, this isn't quite it... but maybe near.
