Tidal
A small tool for reading the rhythm of the coast, turning tide tables into something you can feel at a glance.
Tidal began as a personal itch. The official tide tables were accurate but joyless: dense columns of numbers that told you the height of the water without ever telling you what it felt like to stand on the shore. I wanted something you could glance at and simply understand.
The interface
The interface leans on a single continuous curve rather than a grid. High and low water become peaks and troughs you can trace with a finger, and the present moment is marked with a soft glow that drifts along the line through the day.
Under the surface
Under the surface it is a small static site that fetches forecast data once and caches it locally, so it stays quick and works happily offline at the water’s edge where signal is thin.