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One I like is Tom Macwright’s blog [1], which somewhat famously loads insanely fast thanks to having a sort of the web equivalent of a brutalist design while still looking nice [2]. [1] https://macwright.com/ [2] https://macwright.com/2016/05/03/the-featherweight-website
Tasteful: https://colly.com/ Artsy: https://anhvn.com/ Simple yet elegant: https://www.lkhrs.com/ and https://arun.is/blog/ Maximalist: https://henry.codes/ and https://garden.bradwoods.io/ and https://blog.maximeheckel.com/ Old-school / indie web: https://ribo.zone/ Text mode / ASCII art: https://adelfaure.net/ Typography: http://davidcole.me/ and https://www.petemillspaugh.com/ I have more. You can keep rolling the…
- S-TIER blogs are those that are animated, visual, interactive and absolutely blow your mind off - A-TIER are highly informative and you ll learn something - opinion blogs at the absolute bottom of the tier list because everyone everywhere ll always have an opinion about everything and my life is too short to be reading all that - these are the S-TIER ones on my system - https://growingswe.com/blog - https://ciechan…
I'm gonna use this as an opportunity to get some feedback on mine: https://ayman.eldidi.org/articles/unicode-identifiers/
One designy thing I've been practicing is to be intentional about every margin / piece of whitespace, and to use a proportional scale like https://utopia.fyi/. You might find that if you align more elements and stick to the scale, things might look extra pleasing. (Maybe you already have, idk, just first impressions from my phone)
- subscribe button placement looks uneven, esp on mobile. Maybe it could be a simple underlined link?
- imo centered text is a crutch that often looks better when left justified instead, or rerranged with some other solution. I'm thinking of the mobile navbar and lengthy captions. This is more subjective tho
- homepage could use more posts! Looking forward to your future writing
- the most beautiful sites usually come up with some unique theme or visual identity or creative stunt to break away from a vanilla default theme. But people still like basic readable websites if the content is great.
https://simonsarris.com/
Not sure if it counts as “most beautiful”, but I spent a lot of time tinkering with my own blog UI and interactions: https://simonaking.com
Not sure if it counts as “most beautiful”, but I spent a lot of time tinkering with my own blog UI and interactions: https://simonaking.com
- S-TIER blogs are those that are animated, visual, interactive and absolutely blow your mind off - A-TIER are highly informative and you ll learn something - opinion blogs at the absolute bottom of the tier list because everyone everywhere ll always have an opinion about everything and my life is too short to be reading all that - these are the S-TIER ones on my system - https://growingswe.com/blog - https://ciechan…
- require 3 clicks and 10 seconds to navigate to a subpage. No indication whether it's trying to load or not (growingswe)
- have underlined headers that are not links (mlu-explain)
- hijack scrolling, the back button and navigation history (seeing-theory)
I do not disagree these blogs are awesome. Of these I knew ciechanow.ski and lumafield - famous and exceptional. Just... I feel a bit disappointed when someone pumps excitement, and your first experience with the websites are either weird design choices or bad UX, intentionally or not.
Anyway, thanks for sharing!