The Hickensian

2.09.09 Helvetical

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Tagged with: calendar, google, userstyles

Adam Taylor has released Helvetical, a work-in-progress userstyle for Google Calendar, based on my Helvetireader theme:

I know I am not alone in my love/hate relationship for Google’s apps, the functionality is brilliant but the UI is ugly. Google Calendar is most definitely not the exception to the rule, it hurts my eyes. Helvetical extends the work done by Jon Hicks on Helvetireader, turning the mayhem of the Google interface into something that doesn’t offend. It was created for use with Fluid.app but I’m sure you can hack the CSS to work for your needs.

At one point, I had in mind that I would create a minimal Helvetica theme that would work across various google apps. Then I took one look under the hood of GMail and new it would never work.

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No.1

∞ Alex said 160 days ago:

Really nice. Couldn’t get it working in Prism till now. Maybe someone has a working *.webapp for it?
But I use Helvetireader every day and am very happy about it! Why isn’t Google after good Design?

No.2

∞ Mark McCorkell said 159 days ago:

That looks nice! I use Google Reader and tried to install your Helvetireader a while back but I don’t think I followed the process right and screwed it up! :( Looks very slick though!

No.3

∞ Jkoromi said 158 days ago:

Thanks, this looks a ton better than the default. However, I think the influx of people has crushed your site. Can’t wait to install this into Greasemonkey!

No.4

∞ Mark McCorkell said 154 days ago:

I started using Helvetireader today – loving it! :)