Rounded corners are back
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 57 posts since 4 Jul, 2021
Windows 11 is going to be an annoyance to Apple which just optimized its UI rendering for hard corners.
I find this particularly funny. People ridiculed my Yofiel site design for using rounded corners and white fonts as looking out of date, which was because I liked the look of Joomla 1.0. Actually there's technical reasons for it. Rounded corners help separate elements, but require more graphics power, which is now readily available. And dark backgrounds are less fatiguing on the eyes, but white fonts didn't work for a while because anti-aliasing edges only worked with black text. Those problems are gone, which is good news for graphics designers.
Reaktor had a very clever method for making rounded corners in v4. I don't know how many people are using it these days, but I used it for my synth designs.
I find this particularly funny. People ridiculed my Yofiel site design for using rounded corners and white fonts as looking out of date, which was because I liked the look of Joomla 1.0. Actually there's technical reasons for it. Rounded corners help separate elements, but require more graphics power, which is now readily available. And dark backgrounds are less fatiguing on the eyes, but white fonts didn't work for a while because anti-aliasing edges only worked with black text. Those problems are gone, which is good news for graphics designers.
Reaktor had a very clever method for making rounded corners in v4. I don't know how many people are using it these days, but I used it for my synth designs.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 57 posts since 4 Jul, 2021
As I said, it's not. Windows originally had rounded corners, but Microsoft removed them a very long time ago due to complaints about performance.
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- KVRAF
- 6099 posts since 22 Mar, 2009 from gent
Please enlighten me .
Are you talking about the poly or multi display object ?
Afaik , the only mehod is to import png or targa files with rounded corners
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- KVRAF
- 2945 posts since 31 Jan, 2003 from Ghent, Belgium
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 57 posts since 4 Jul, 2021
It didnt make it to the commercial release. For reasons stated. It was originally based on some UNIX UI standard, I forget its name.
- KVRAF
- 14985 posts since 26 Jun, 2006 from San Francisco Bay Area
I’m so happy that they’re going back to this kind of look. Windows 10 was a huge step backwards for a million reasons, including being able to differentiate between stacked windows. The illusion of depth is a very important way to communicate things when doing a user interface. To throw it out in the name of a “clean” look is so short sighted.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 57 posts since 4 Jul, 2021
- KVRAF
- 14985 posts since 26 Jun, 2006 from San Francisco Bay Area
Why is this in Modular Synthesis?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 57 posts since 4 Jul, 2021
You know it's an interesting thing. Ive liked rounded corners for a long time, but they require transparency, which used to be a performance problem. Well with a recent nvidia driver update, there is zero overhead for alpha channels now. Zero. Im enjoying making 16-layer overlays in my instruments now
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- KVRist
- 60 posts since 29 Sep, 2021
Round Rects are everywhere!yofiel wrote: ↑Sun Oct 03, 2021 6:15 am Windows 11 is going to be an annoyance to Apple which just optimized its UI rendering for hard corners.
I find this particularly funny. People ridiculed my Yofiel site design for using rounded corners and white fonts as looking out of date, which was because I liked the look of Joomla 1.0. Actually there's technical reasons for it. Rounded corners help separate elements, but require more graphics power, which is now readily available. And dark backgrounds are less fatiguing on the eyes, but white fonts didn't work for a while because anti-aliasing edges only worked with black text. Those problems are gone, which is good news for graphics designers.
Reaktor had a very clever method for making rounded corners in v4. I don't know how many people are using it these days, but I used it for my synth designs.
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?s ... ywhere.txt
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- KVRAF
- 2063 posts since 14 Sep, 2004 from $HOME
I don’t care much about rounded corners, but I heartily dislike the current trend to dark backgrounds. It might be true that it can be easier on the eye under some light conditions, but then white text on a dark background is definitely harder to read for the eye (or even worse, some dark gray on black, like I’ve seen on some plugin). I find dark backgrounds incredibly hard on the eye.
It’s not always black and white
Previous versions of windows (and other applications like DAWs) might’ve looked old fashioned with their grey colors, but for readability and ease on the eye it was the best, at least for me.
If you’re a graphic designer for doing UIs, always offer a light theme as an alternative!
It’s not always black and white
Previous versions of windows (and other applications like DAWs) might’ve looked old fashioned with their grey colors, but for readability and ease on the eye it was the best, at least for me.
If you’re a graphic designer for doing UIs, always offer a light theme as an alternative!
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 57 posts since 4 Jul, 2021
Maybe you find it helpful to know dark backgrounds wear out monitors more quickly. the transistor which pulls the signal back on horizontal sync has to work harder to create a strong enough pullback, and its usually the first component to wear out as it is.