We are looking for feedback on the new font style & padding on the Canvas & in the UI in Coda. If you are particular about headers, fonts or spacing, this is your time to shine. The Coda team would love to hear from you.
We are early in our engineering phase & are looking for feedback on the new typography on the Canvas and in the UI in Coda. At this time, we only have the feature enabled for new docs on a testing environment. If you would like to test this feature and give feedback, please fill out this form.
Can you clarify what documents will be pushed to this new environment? Will it be EVERY new doc we create? If so - is there a possibility our new docs with these features will experience breaking-bugs or anything?
I really want to be a part of the beta but also don’t want crucial docs I make to break
Looking forward to it! When will this test environment be unlocked for interested users? Will we be notified about it (unfortunately this did not happen in the past)?
I sincerely hope this feature doesn’t give users a full list of selectable fonts & sizes.
I think the beauty of Coda is that I don’t have to think about design. It just works and looks good.
All font sizes are controlled by the Headers which have semantic meaning.
Not having to select font saves time AND it also keeps the docs looking consistent no matter who writes them. That cannot be said for Word, Google Docs, etc. (even if the brand manager painstakingly sets up a company template).
Now if I can set up a company template for a specific set of fonts for each style, I’m interested. But it’s also not at all a bugaboo (there are features I care a lot more about, especially related to performance).
Yes and no. There are quite a few problems at the moment. For example, there is currently no dedicated spacing between paragraphs (you have to do this with a blank line/paragraph). The spacing between paragraphs is different when layout columns are involved (there are up to three different heights of spacing). Spacing between columns is missing in mobile rendering. Blank lines can be formatted as text or heading H1, H2 or H3, which makes no sense and allows them to be different sizes without containing any content. There is no way to display a word or part of text with larger characters without formatting it as a heading (which would not make semantic sense in most cases).
Hey y’all, this was originally in a sandbox for users to check out. We got feedback that it would be easier to give feedback while using it in production so we will be reaching out with more info once that is available. Thanks for your excitement around this!
Yes, quite a lot has changed already (maybe just for those signed up for the beta test?).
Paragraphs now have native spacing, as do headings - very welcome! The typography of the headings has also changed. The typography of the page title is not very pretty in my opinion, just too bold for my taste).
The blank lines we previously had to use to visually separate paragraphs from each other have been automatically removed (very smart, so no need to rework texts after the update, thanks, Coda Team!).
Spacing between layout columns and paragraphs is now no longer different, so text in columns blends perfectly with normal text (without columns):
hi @Michael_Singer I did not sign up for this Beta and noticed the same changes., even in my older docs I opened this morning. Like you am I glad to see progression on this point.
Upon further exploration, I see that creating line breaks within a paragraph is unfortunately not possible at this time. The key combination Shift+Enter only creates a new paragraph, and not a line break within the current paragraph as expected.
