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Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018)

https://www.figma.com/blog/desperately-seeking-squircles/
18•kjeetgill•3w ago

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hexasquid•3w ago
Intake of breath from the zune owners
Lare2•3w ago
Wasn't Nokia the one that first used squircles in a phone. Why all references for anything always start with apple.
flobosg•3w ago
> Nokia, despite its late entry with MeeGo’s Harmattan UI, found the squircle unclaimed and ran with it beautifully.

―https://interuserface.net/2011/06/own-a-shape/

rob74•3w ago
"Squircle" is a bit of a misnomer, isn't it? A "classic" rectangle with rounded corners is a rectangle with circle segments added at its corners, while a squircle actually has nothing to do with a circle. It reminds me more of the way curves in railways are designed: one might think that these are circle segments too, but that would mean that when going from the straight track to the curve, the centripetal (and centrifugal) acceleration would go from 0 to max instantly, which would lead to a sudden jolt, increased track wear etc. Instead, transition curves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_transition_curve) are used to gradually increase the lateral force.
deruta•3w ago
As I see it, the name fits perfectly. If the superellipse is a square at n -> inf and a circle at n = 2, then in-between... welp, a squircle.
otikik•3w ago
This must be one of those things that people that notice kerning notice.
saagarjha•3w ago
I know it's frowned upon to comment on the formatting of a post, and this isn't really a complaint but more of a bug report since someone from Figma might stumble upon this. Your fake cursor assets are not Retina.
flobosg•3w ago
Same with the rendered math formulas, they could get a bit more love. Great post nevertheless!

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