On one hand I think this is an innovative presentation, and I enjoyed the creativity. Also I like fonts.
On the other hand, (and this is a critique of scrolling/parallax navigation in general), as a user I always feel like I'm doing this wrong. It feels like I'm a cameraman with one of those old-timey hand-cranked movie cameras from the Charlie Chaplin days where the skill was in keeping the shutter speed constant but I'm doing it wrong and everybody is walking around at a weird speed.
The ability to reverse the animation by scrolling up is novel, and maybe going at my own pace is the idea. But personally I would rather click next and let the transition happen normally. Maybe Powerpoint has made me lazy.
It is a fad, let's face it. That's not to say that it isn't pretty and it is great to experiment but we don't really colour the scroll bar pink anymore.
I think parallax can be an effective way of presenting information on a page (easier to scrub than video, more cohesive than a slide deck and more lively than a static page).
But here I think they overdid it. There is too much going on, I can't tell where I am, and I have no idea what I'm supposed to get out of it. (Probably doesn't help that I don't remember much German from high school, but even then I'm not sure the actual text content would be all that helpful).
There is a longer texts at the end of each of the three distinct sections, informing you about the specific font you just saw, as well as its included features.
You can skip between these sections be clicking on the little markers on the right.
All the other text is there to show you the fonts and their features in action, be it ligatures, be it international diacritics or different font weights.
On the other hand, (and this is a critique of scrolling/parallax navigation in general), as a user I always feel like I'm doing this wrong. It feels like I'm a cameraman with one of those old-timey hand-cranked movie cameras from the Charlie Chaplin days where the skill was in keeping the shutter speed constant but I'm doing it wrong and everybody is walking around at a weird speed.
The ability to reverse the animation by scrolling up is novel, and maybe going at my own pace is the idea. But personally I would rather click next and let the transition happen normally. Maybe Powerpoint has made me lazy.