Bar layout: Rail
The bar stands upright at the left edge. Wordmark, menu and buttons are set vertically and read from the bottom up, as on the spine of a book.
An upright bar set with writing-mode
- WhyIt frees the whole top for content and gives the brand the spine of a book as identity. Few software brands do it.
- RiskVertical text is slower to read. It is a deliberate choice to be different, and it needs a horizontal variant on a phone.
- Techniquewriting-mode: vertical-rl and rotate: 180deg. The attention model works along the vertical axis.
- Shelf
- Navigation and menus
- Group
- Navigation 74 of 116
- Theme
- Light and dark
- Live pointer
- 8 steps, until you take over