Flat, Never Bent
Two hundred and forty-one all-intra frames of a specimen sheet, cut so a scroll can land on any one of them.
- Client
- Meridian Type Foundry
- Discipline
- Motion
- Year
- 2025
Meridian wanted their specimen sheet to move under the reader’s hand rather than play at them. That is a codec decision before it is a design one, and it is the same technique running on the front page of this site.
Every frame a keyframe
A normal export stores most frames as differences from their neighbours, so seeking to an arbitrary time means decoding back to the last full picture. Exported all-intra — GOP length of one — every frame stands alone and a seek resolves instantly.
Buffer, then scrub
The file is fetched once into a Blob and handed to the video element as an object URL, so
seeks never touch the network. Scroll position sets a target time, and the player eases
toward it each frame instead of snapping — the difference between footage that reacts and
footage that feels attached to your hand.
Fallback
Anything that cannot buffer gets a short looping clip and the type on top, which is the whole page’s meaning anyway. Nobody sees a spinner.