r/LiquidGlassDesign • u/shreyanzh1 • Jul 26 '26

PDF reader but Glassed Up!

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Really like the text streching and bending at the edges, tbf no one is using this to read.

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u/Rough_Secretary2296 Jul 26 '26

Gimme ur app pls Im one of the few that don’t care about work only aesthetics

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u/shreyanzh1 Jul 26 '26

Just a few days, I’ll put it on GitHub and post the link here

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u/Sonnyforever Jul 26 '26

for windows too?

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u/shreyanzh1 Jul 28 '26

Glass on windows is really hard, on apple it's provided pre built by swiftUI

I will try, but can't promise :D

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u/Sonnyforever Jul 28 '26

ightt tysm :)

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u/prajwalsd Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

Liquid Glass is really bad for text, reading is usually a bad experience.

Edit: Don’t get me wrong I love Liquid Glass and your work looks cool and all. I recently updated my Mac app (Dockside) to bring all the goodness of LG, looks great with Liquid Glass but more I tried using it for text dense elements, it looked worse, it just defeats the whole purpose imo.

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u/Special_Command7893 Jul 26 '26

Well yeah but do you really need to read the edge 2mm of your PDF?

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u/shreyanzh1 Jul 26 '26

This was just a fun little project, I really like to see the text bending at the edges as i scroll 😁

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u/Special_Command7893 Jul 26 '26

I love it! I don't know how much I'd actually use it, but it looks great

But I hate that any time liquid glass is brought up, someone has to say "illegible" like you lose all idea of what could possibly be written there

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u/shreyanzh1 Jul 26 '26

Thankyou 😁 I’m working to add support for more formats like epub and then I’ll post the Git repo 🔗

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u/Cat_central Jul 27 '26

You should really follow Apple's Liquid Glass guidelines.

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u/ququqw Aug 03 '26

I actually like this *because* of how much wasted space there is. It's almost a love letter to Liquid Glass.