No scroll bars as far as the eye (or the I) can see. When the text becomes longer than the box, I can scroll it up and down with the conventional two-finger gesture. On the OmmWriter web page, there are some thoughts on how a vertical line can feel like an obstacle to the flow of text, whereas the horizontal underscore invites the text to move on. The typing caret is custom-made as a subtle little blinking underscore, presumably to be less distractive than the regular vertical bar. The leading has not been adjusted properly it is just a little too tight, even for a narrow column of 50-60 characters per line which is what I instinctively resized the text box to. The typefaces are nonremarkable: a sans-serif (Helvetica), a serif (Georgia), a script (is it Snell Roundhand? Anyway, it has an animation of a pen stroke that I find almost entirely cutesy-annoying) and a monospace (which I can’t name). The controls fade away after a few seconds of inactivity, or as soon as I start typing again. Only a few controls: to move and resize text box, to do simple formatting such as choosing between four typefaces and four type sizes. And two more sounds to choose from, both high-pitched, spacey and quiet: a little twang and a little snap. Speaking of audio, I notice now that there is a very subtle keypress sound, like the quiet chirp of a cricket. There are bells and chimes to make my writing into something serene, if not even slightly religious. The audio selections are also light and calm. A winter landscape, a clean white slate and a light gray textured canvas.
#Ommwriter dana 1 free
The free version OmmWriter Dana I has three images and three sound loops. Ambient music in my headphones while I write.
Is it solid and organic, or merely eye (and ear) candy?Ī transparent text box on top of a fullscreen background image. Richard tells me this is interaction aesthetics.
#Ommwriter dana 1 windows
Update: it now also works on Windows operating system! Here’s a review by interaction designer Jonas Löwgren and a short discussion between him and Richard Topgaard. Ambient background music and chirpy keyboard clicks are optional. Do you ever dream of being able to write without being disturbed by incoming e-mails and facebook notifications? OmmWriter gives you a clutter-free word-processing interface with no menus, no spell check and no notifications of any kind.
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