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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