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Designing a minimalist calendar
From the course: Type Tips
Designing a minimalist calendar
- [Nigel] Hi there, welcome to Type Tips! My name is Nigel French, and in this episode I'm going to show you how we can make a minimalist, compact calendar. This is my finished version, let me just talk you through it. I've tried to be as sparing as possible here, and use only the very essential information, but it does have it's own internal logic, which once you get used to it, is very easy to navigate. I have here a 28 column grid. Now, that might sound like a lot, a little bit overwhelming perhaps, but here's how it breaks down. In the outside columns, occupying a single column each, I have my day grid, Monday through Sunday, running down the outside columns. Then, we have a blank column either side of those, and then each month occupies two column widths. For each month, I have this red line running through the month, and I'm differentiating the weekends by making them go on the right side of that rule, and the weekdays are on the left side of that rule. This starting position of…
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