Better typography is here - Introducing Simple Kerning. Click between the letters and adjust the space with one single gesture. Looks good - works even better! Kerning value counter is set in KMR Melange Grotesk. Simple Kerning is available for all users in Control starting now.
Sweet! We implemented a similar one in @control_tool but instead of depending on delays and timeouts to hide the triangular safe zone, we used linear interpolation to make the cursor-related corner “catch up” with the cursor. This allowed us to show the next sub nav right away instead of waiting for the user to stop the mouse completely.
Convert your Desktop Layout to mobile in seconds!
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Auto-layout in Control is a mix of design-centered algorithms and a dash of AI and it's already works like a charm.
Currently in early beta and available for selected users. Public release is planned for this fall.
Even distribution snapping+guides finally arrived in the editor! #new_feature
You might have seen them in other (mostly desktop) design editors and now they are available in @control_tool. It’s an additional guide that appears when objects are evenly distributed and shows the exact distance between them. And, of course, even distance snapping is added as well.
🤓 For those who want to make sense of the diagram and how we made it work 👇 #underthehood
As soon as the user starts dragging an element on the canvas, we need to determine all of the points on a canvas that the element should potentially snap to. We determined three types of points: Start, Center and End point (displayed as S, C, E on the diagram). For example, the currently dragged element (seen on the diagram as “D” - the rightmost rectangle) with it’s left side can only snap to the points marked with S, it’s right side can only snap to points with E; the center point is needed to position an element precisely in between the space when the rhythmic spacing is appropriate.