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Outstanding Google Reader Theme From Jon Hicks

Posted November 27, 2008 — Filed under: Elsewhere, Typography — (0)

Helvetireader - a Google Reader theme from Jon Hicks

Helvetireader is a theme for Google Reader–Google’s RSS reader–created by Jon Hicks.

Using a Greasemonkey script, it calls an additional stylesheet when you load Google Reader. The alternate styles are–of course–helveticentric and tidy up the UI quite a lot. It’s remarkable how much effect just dialing back color a bit can have. The type treatments are also executed exceedingly well.

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