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Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by lhorie »

Trufa wrote: post #10
GoblinSlayer wrote: post #5

> body{max-width:650px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 10px;font:18px Ugh, this guy shouldn't touch web design with a 10 meter pole.

Um, what's so bad about that?

Some people see `px` and assume it's physical pixels and because they know some devices have different pixel densities, they go complaining about how coding in terms of pixels instead of `em` doesn't account for density, unaware that `px` refers logical pixels[0]

[0] https://blogs.perficient.com/2014/12/24/css-pixel-ratio-or-h...

Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by kempbellt »

"Fuck" is used here almost as frequently as it is in the book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

I made it about two pages into that book before I stopped giving a fuck about reading it.

I made it to the first headline before I stop giving a fuck about reading this website.

If that was the goal, nailed it.

Swearing for effect can work sometimes, but YMMV. It lost me in this case.

Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by dylan604 »

I get the push against overly stylized, heavy library downloads, etc. However, I'm leaning towards the Perfect MoFo version versus the MoFo version. A little CSS can do wonders. There's a lot of times my browser is full screen width or some size greater than 50% of width. To read the text on the MoFo version, I need to ever so slightly turn my head from line to line. It's right up there with coming late to the movie theater to have to sit in the very first row to watch Star Wars. Reading the scrolling text is a physical excersise.

Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by camgunz »

rkangel wrote: post #7

From " http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ " which is one up the chain: > A little less contrast WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. To give this person credit they have at least chosen some sensible values, rather than gone with something that was just about enough on an expensive graphic designer high-contrast monitor and then not tested it on anything else. Leaving the rest of us squinting to try and read text or manua…

A fundamental design principle is that full black is unnatural. It's like, point three on "I don't know anything about design, give me a quick list" articles. And it's pretty true, frankly. Making text a little more navy or gray makes a big difference. Sure people have eyesight issues and not everyone has a great monitor, but most people prefer it this way.

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

rkangel wrote: post #7

From " http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ " which is one up the chain: > A little less contrast WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. To give this person credit they have at least chosen some sensible values, rather than gone with something that was just about enough on an expensive graphic designer high-contrast monitor and then not tested it on anything else. Leaving the rest of us squinting to try and read text or manua…

If you're within 10-15% or so of white or black, I am fine with the "slightly grey" look, assuming I don't have an AMOLED screen, where your dark grey is just wasting my phone battery.

I really only get annoyed with the "less contrast" meme when it's something like a Google website where the UI disappears if your monitor's contrast settings weren't tuned professionally. (I used to have to adjust my monitor settings around making the UI elements on Google+ visible.)

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Post by RandallBrown »

rkangel wrote: post #7

From " http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ " which is one up the chain: > A little less contrast WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. To give this person credit they have at least chosen some sensible values, rather than gone with something that was just about enough on an expensive graphic designer high-contrast monitor and then not tested it on anything else. Leaving the rest of us squinting to try and read text or manua…

> WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS.

Because too much contrast can be jarring and distracting, making it harder to read.

These kinds of things are subjective.

Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by progval »

Veen wrote: post #23
progval wrote: post #8

> And did you let the browser choose the font? Don’t make me read such text with Times New Roman. I don't understand this attitude. If you don't like Times New Roman, why don't you change your browser's default font? What I don't like is when websites tell my browser to use a different font or different colors than the ones I configured. (Off-topic, but something that really annoys me is websites that make text in ve…

Why is that? Do you also find it infuriating when magazines and books don't use your preferred font? Perhaps it annoys you when web pages don't use your favourite colour for every element too. Web pages are designed and typography is part of the design.

I use an ebook reader and it lets me configure the font, size, spacing, and margins.

I don't mind printed books and magazines because it's a constraint of the medium; but for websites it's a missed opportunity.

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