Gregory's ServerThere’s a lot of fun typography, too! Take a look at the score numbers — these use the system variable font features to make the weight bold and the width compact. We love messing with the font width axes for display type to see what effects we can achieve.
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 Finally (and this is a big one): motion backgrounds. It’s easy for an app to feel lifeless when it’s just displaying static data, like the Weather and Sports apps. It’s really hard to get right, but they’ve implemented this animation quite well. It’s hard to tell what’s going on, but here’s our guess: There are two color swatches where the exact gradation point shifts a little bit (maybe ± 10% from the middle). Highlights shimmer on top of that gradient. Then, underneath it all, this cloth texture we extracted from the app bundle is tiled and warped by a Metal shader. Will iOS 18 include more apps with this jersey cloth texture? Almost certainly not. But to make your app feel ahead of the curve, you gotta (and excuse the cheesiness) skate to where the puck is going to be. 🏒 And the puck is headed towards a lot of gradients, motion, and remixing the nav bar in fun ways. |
This is also the first time we can recall a super dense data grid in a first-party app. These are always a huge pain to construct, but they’ve implemented this really well. Take a look at what happens when you increase the Dynamic Type size, too: