I’ve spent the last hour hunched over the new Klim Type foundry website with my arms outstretched as if it was a fire in a very dark cave. Klim Type makes and sells wondrous fonts — like Tiempos, and National 2 or Pitch — and this fresh redesign now showcases them in all their glory. Here’s an example of the type specimen from the Calibre typeface:
There’s a shocking amount of beautiful design in this little website and I particularly like the blog where Kris Sowersby recently wrote a wonderful essay about the design of their latest type release, Söhne, which looks into the design of the New York subway signage, too:
On an average work PC, using a recent Firefox and a decent monitor, the Klim site hangs, the graphics break up, the first movie took long enough to load that I thought the site was broken. In these days of prioritising load time and page weight such sites make me sad.
It’s behaving for me on Fx 61 on Linux. It might possibly be a graphics setting in Fx itself that’s forcing software rendering or something and not letting the GPU take some of the load correctly? IIRC this did used to be an issue with Fx on Windows some years back with certain graphics cards.
Bad load times are bad though. I wish more devs would test their stuff out on slower/throttled connections.