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What's stopping web typography from feeling like Figma?
I built SUBSTRATA to find out, a moodboard tool powered by chenglou/pretext. No DOM reflow. Live type measurement. Editorial layouts in the browser.
Drop your answer below, and tell me what layout you'd build first.
honestly a course landing page the way text usually sits on those pages is so stiff 😩, this could change everything for course creators
Amazing 🤩 🤩 🤩 😍 😍 😍 🤩 😍 🤩
Great Work.
Awesome!
Hello revolte,
I really like what you do in your field
same here i love the design, its so creative
You didn't give me the meehhh
Nice work
Awesome!
This looks really good!
WOW!
SUBSTRATA is exactly what typographers have been waiting for. No DOM reflow is a game changer — editorial layouts in the browser have always felt like fighting the medium. I'd build a longform reading layout first, dense pull quotes with variable fonts 🔤 Pretext finally makes this real.
this is great 👍
beautiful work
This is lit 🔥
Really awesome and creative work design
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I tested Wonder to create a landing page for skincare brand, something I do not offer as a service because I don't have time but that I get requested a lot.
First impression, it is fast and surprisingly intuitive to get something on screen. The structure comes together quickly, and it is easy to translate a brand into a layout.
But once you move past the first draft, things get interesting, you can't imagine how easy it is to edit! 🤯 Honestly, this sits somewhere between a prototyping tool and a real workflow extension.
Curious, would you use something like this to expand your services?
Yes its truly amazing. i use for my component variation and here it generated
Design isn’t just how it looks, it’s how it feels to use. 💫
Lately, I’ve been diving deeper into Framer and Figma, and one thing keeps standing out: the gap between a “good looking” interface and a truly intuitive experience.
Anyone can place elements on a canvas. But crafting a seamless UI/UX means:
understanding user behavior
designing with intention, not decoration
and obsessing over the tiny interactions most people overlook
Tools like Figma make collaboration and structure easy. Framer pushes it further by turning ideas into interactive realities fast.
The real skill? Knowing why you’re designing something, not just how.
If your design doesn’t guide the user effortlessly, it’s just art... not UX.
What’s one small design detail you think most people ignore, but actually matters a lot? 👀
Why does presenting finished work online sometimes feel harder than finishing the work itself?
You finish the project
Then comes the part where you need to show it
And somehow, it becomes its own complex unpaid project
I recently ran a small survey among designers, and a lot of people mentioned the same things:
✦ wanting to use motion, but not having motion design skills
✦ having to reinvent the presentation format every time
✦ feeling like the work doesn't look online as good as it should
So apparently, it's not only my personal designer drama
I've been thinking about this a lot lately because I'm building something around it. Something for designers who want their work to look good online without turning every post into a full production
Do you struggle with this too, or have you already found your system?
I find this very funny because i recently rounded up a project and i'm currently thinking about how to post
The issues from my pov are where to begin so i start looking for inspiration, thinking about captions and ultimately doubt (is the post gonna do well or not)
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