This week’s featured designs feature rulers and ticked markers on them, both for functional navigation and decorative purposes. Happy Friday!
Designs of the Week
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This has some touches of Retro Futura in it—from the bento navigation to the framed sidebar elements—but leans toward a more elegant and refined palette. I guess the rulers that run on both sides from top to bottom, which have pixel markers in them but not sure why they alternate between 0 and 1—add to the classroom feel on top of the green, blackboard-esque background.
Because the ruler is part of the background it suffers in image quality, but your attention is drawn to that over the rest. Everything else looks great though: there’s subtle parallax going on and you have bold colors, illustrations, and headlines.
I like how the ruler navigation on the left side contracts and expands depending on how high up you are on the page, or how tall the browser window is, ensuring you can get to any section at any time and keeping the menu dynamic and noticeable. This nav also repeats for inner pages and uses their specific sections. When you get to an individual portfolio page, you can go to the next and previous items without having to go back to the whole list.
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