“The screen mimics the sky, not the earth. It bombards the eye with light instead of waiting to repay the gift of vision. It is not simultaneously restful and lively, like a field full of flowers, or the face of a thinking human being, or a well-made typographic page. And we read the screen the way we read the sky: in quick sweeps, guessing at the weather from the changing shapes of clouds, of like astronomers, in magnified small bits, examining details.”
Robert Bringhurst, from The Elements of Typographic Style (via Frank Chimero)
The drop shadow window got the metaphor wrong.
“Start with the manual.”
“To clarify, add detail.”
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