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"And never choose Times New Roman or Arial, as those fonts are favored only by the apathetic and sloppy." Why? Can someone explain this?
"And never choose Times New Roman or Arial, as those fonts are favored only by the apathetic and sloppy." Why? Can someone explain this?
"And never choose Times New Roman or Arial, as those fonts are favored only by the apathetic and sloppy." Why? Can someone explain this?
Arial is a poor clone of Helvetica. It only exists to avoid licensing it.
"And never choose Times New Roman or Arial, as those fonts are favored only by the apathetic and sloppy." Why? Can someone explain this?
Messages are defined not just by their content but also by their medium, like it or not.
It's the same thing as wearing the same shirt and pants every day that was what K-Mart had on sale: you don't care and it wasn't chosen to flatter your body. Apathetic and sloppy.
(And I personally find great aesthetic beauty in Times and in Helvetica, Arial's original -- it's sad to me that they're simply no longer viable choices for design.)
I absolutely hate that the author decided on devoting an entire column to just the menu resulting in the body text being off-centered. There's just this giant uneven gap on the left and it's horrible.
For me, this online-book is the most beautiful site on the entire web, at least with the default Valkyrie font. It's a prime example of how excellent content design can be made in black-and-white, and the sorta-recent wave of "this is a website" pages didn't come close to it. White space there is simply magical, every single interval is perfect―I envy the author for the ability to achieve that. The site, together wit…
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Web_0_0x2e_1
Your average ebook is textbook or published book content put in the media equivalent of an iframe. Butterick's websites are not that. I have a friend who's a huge fan of Butterick and did a similar thing with his take on Eliezer Yudkowsky.
https://www.readthesequences.com/
I'd very much like to see more websites in this style and fewer "iframes".
There's also the issue that while the site may look pretty, it requires downloading 5 megabytes of CSS.
At every job I've had, designers who talked about typography created more problems than they solved. They picked fonts that were less readable but more unique, "To emphasize our brand." They chose web fonts that hurt page load times and had kerning and hinting issues on platforms besides macOS. They chose thin font weights and gray text colors because those looked nice when viewed indoors on retina displays with young eyes.
Almost every site could be improved by doing less with fonts, not more. For long form text, use a popular serif font. For user interfaces, use the system font stack.[1] Don't ship web fonts except for icons. Most importantly: Use high contrast and normal font weights. Thin gray fonts are extremely hard to read if you're outdoors or using an older/cheaper screen.
It took me a while to figure out that links in the text were ALL CAPS instead of underlined and/or blue. The hover effect was so subtle that I didn't notice it at first. I ended up hovering over acronyms pretty often, as I was never sure if those were also links. That is not good design. There's also the issue that while the site may look pretty, it requires downloading 5 megabytes of CSS. At every job I've had, desi…
It took me a while to figure out that links in the text were ALL CAPS instead of underlined and/or blue. The hover effect was so subtle that I didn't notice it at first. I ended up hovering over acronyms pretty often, as I was never sure if those were also links. That is not good design. There's also the issue that while the site may look pretty, it requires downloading 5 megabytes of CSS. At every job I've had, desi…
Don't ship icons as fonts either. SVG was made for a reason.