A Preview of how I am spending my summer vacation…

Hi Ernie,

to prevent this great list and approach and upcoming discussion from well meant but useless and ignorant:

“Great, can’t wait 'til you release it …”

allow me some notes:

####First things first:

I do love the way how you handle typography with care, brain, heart and attention to detail. This is unique in this landscape, showing your special power. This is design - at least one of the most important part of it.

####Templates in Freeway (or anywhere):

I’m one of the biggest foe of it and ever was and ever will (perhaps). Not by their existence, cause a framework is as well kinda template. And I do love frameworks and patterns. The way bigger problem is, that this leads amateurs to start with design, comparable to fill forms.

And that’s the entire wrong approach. A project starts by content! You can’t treat it like form-fields. And this is the magic breaker at all.

####The things I learned

Typography the way you do requires knowledge. As long as Freeway allowing us to fiddle styles within inspector, it’s a matter of five seconds to break well organized and so hard created proper styles. It’s something like:

“I want to change the blue color into green. Ah - found it, inspector yada yada”. Those lists usually start pretty harmless and end in … hm (Information for existing FreewayTalk / Groups.io users - Site Feedback - Softpress Talk just as an example).

Prevent yourself from this the best you can, we (and me specifically) urgently need you for more advanced things and stuff.

Oh did I already mentioned?

Great - can’t wait 'til you release it!

Cheers

Thomas


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