Skrivr makes beautiful typography easy
New web publishing tool automatically modifies your text according to screen size
Skrivr is a tool that takes the hard work out of beautiful web typography. Headlines and drop-caps are automatically tweaked to suit the screen being used to view your site, and advanced typographic features such as true small caps, ligatures and intelligent hyphening are all put to use.
Skrivr is brought to you by designer Andreas Carlsson and UX man Jaan Orvet.
"Skrivr was born out of a need for a simpler way to publish content online,” Carlsson told us.
"Both Jaan and I love writing but we dreaded the moment when we were about to publish, simply because it's switching from expressing to enduring. You know, launch the browser, login to a cluttered admin interface, paste the finely crafted text into disjointed textfields, tag it, categorise it, choose sections, check to make sure the paragraphs haven't broken, switch views again... It's ridiculous. All of that just to get words online.
"We wanted to remove that part of the publishing chain. We wanted a way to publish from whatever writing app and device we had on hand, be it Writer on the MacBook Air, Notepad on a PC or PlainText on the iPad. And we wanted there to be zero admin. To us it made perfect sense that the moment you hit 'save' the text should be published. That's why we built Skrivr.
"With Skrivr you write your articles as simple text files using Markdown. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that lets you add formatting in an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format. The text file is then synced to your Skrivr powered site via Dropbox and automatically converted to structurally valid XHTML or HTML.
"This gives you a completely interface free, no admin, zero fiddly CMS with nothing between you and your words getting published. You write. You save. It's published."
You can read some more detailed information here: skrivr.com/news/.
For more info on type terms, check out the What is Typography post on our sister site Creative Bloq.
2 comments
Comment: 1
Haha, is this guy for real? I just love the way he makes out that using a CMS is some sort of massive stressful difficulty. Wordpress is incredibly easy to use, and launching a browser? Oh come on, you know the guy is scraping the barrel trying to justify his idea when he cites not having to use a web browser as one of its "advantages".
Comment: 2
Yes, I'm very much for real :-) and yes, one of the biggest advantages of Skrivr is that you don't have to use a web-browser. But not for the sake of not using a browser. The big advantage is that you are not "locked" in to a specific platform (be it WP, Tumblr, Drupal, Posterous, Jombla or any other CMS) via a web browser. The "platform free" CMS like Skrivr or Droppages.com gives you the freedom to produce your content in your favourite writing app and when you hit save it's published.
I did never say that using a CMS is a massive stressful difficulty. Wordpress is dead easy to work with but it's not the perfect choice for every site/situation. Skrivr is in no way better then other CMS:es, But it's different since it focuses on the need for extreme simplicity.
I have built lots of sites in WP and Tumblr and especially WP is a great CMS for larger sites with a lot of structure and additional widgets/snippets surrounding the aritcles. Recomending using Skrivr for sites like that would be plain stupid. But if you are looking for minimal admin interfaces for minimal sites then Skrivr is a better alternative cos WP is then a pain to work with.
Please read Brendan Dawes article about him dropping the "simplicity bomb" on BrendanDawes.com: http://brendandawes.posterous.com/brendandawescom-after-the-simplicity-bomb
Thats a perfect example of a site that would benefit from a product like Skrivr, whereas other sites would be much better off using, for example, Wordpress.
So, to conclude. Different CMS:es fits different needs and there i a huge difference in what's available from the above CMS:es and what I need/want when I publish stuff. That's why I decided to build Skrivr.
Take care and please get back to me with your further opinions! /Andreas Carlsson