Helvetireader
Posted by Scott
If you read anywhere as many blogs as me, you probably use an RSS reader. My absolute favorite is Google’s Reader; it’s web-based, lightweight, and has all the functionality I could ever need. The only problem is that, like all other Google products, it looks like a Google product. Enter “Helvetireader”, a minimal, Helvetica-themed interface for Google Reader. The theme works with most browsers, more info is here.
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Kenny G. Villacorta says:
December 17, 2008 at 4:42 amThis looks pretty nice, I’m using it right now. I like Google reader too. Eventually Google is going to bring the themes from Gmail into Google reader, but Helvetireader is much nicer.
Melvin says:
December 17, 2008 at 7:54 amlooks pretty clean indeed, I’m using bloglines witch works okay, but it has allot of options i don’t ever use + it is not as fast as i hoped it would be. I was wondering if it was possible to export all my feeds into another reader?
Andrew says:
December 17, 2008 at 9:11 amMelvin. Yep, I did it several months ago, and I’m very glad I did. Google reader’s lightyears ahead of bloglines, especially the bloglines beta redesign. http://www.bloglines.com/help/faq
Brian says:
December 17, 2008 at 9:44 amThe funny thing is, based on your screen cap it looks as if you don’t have Helvetica :) Looks like arial…
anyway, it is a nice looking reader and I’m going to try it out
joshua says:
December 17, 2008 at 11:31 amVery nice. Does anyone know how to get this working in Fluid?
Scott says:
December 17, 2008 at 1:25 pmBrian-
that’s the official screen-cap from the helvetireader site… I am no font expert, but I’ll take a wild guess and say that they probably used helvetica for that screen cap.
Joaquim Marquès Nielsen says:
December 17, 2008 at 4:11 pmWow that sure spiced it up a bit. Thanks for the tip :)
Brandon says:
December 17, 2008 at 4:22 pmYES!
Ive been using it for a few weeks now and love it so much more then the standard google reader. Now I need to start organizing all my subscriptions….How many do you currently have? Favorites?
John D. says:
December 17, 2008 at 4:30 pmThis is awesome, I just saw this post while searching for a new online rss reader. I was trying to find an alternative to Google Reader because it was so damn ugly, but I really did like its features. I had no idea it could be customized. Now I just have to figure out how to get it working with Chrome…
Scott says:
December 17, 2008 at 7:31 pmBrandon-
here is my current list. there are a lot of unread posts in there, mainly because I’ve been somewhat addicted to Digg lately.
John-
shouldn’t be too hard with chrome, google makes both!
Pedro says:
December 17, 2008 at 8:24 pmLooks nice, and feels a little faster too. I changed the css a little bit though, because Helvetica doesn’t look very nice for web text in Windows. I chose Trebuchet instead.
Does anyone know how to make Helvetica look nice in small sizes in Windows?
Scott Reeves says:
December 17, 2008 at 10:48 pmI’ve been using this for a few weeks as well, about the same time as I pared down my subscriptions. Coincidence?
Jeff Olsen says:
December 18, 2008 at 2:08 amScott, your blog is by far my favorite, and has long been a staple on my bookmarks bar. I’d love to see a post about your favorite/most frequented blogs :)
Brian says:
December 18, 2008 at 8:39 amScott,
Sorry, I just assumed it was your screencap. I’m no font expert either, and after further review I was bass ackwards on fonts. It is Helvetica. I was looking at the “r” and thought I remember that arial “r’s” ended at 90 degrees instead of at an angle. But it is the other way around.
Andros says:
December 21, 2008 at 4:42 pmThis skin is changed my life.
My eyes will thank for it.