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Without a doubt. Fast, clean, adaptable. What's not to like?
#fff on #000. I find the site pretty exhausting to read. Like most "motherfucking websites", a bad example for a good site.
On some machines, maximum contrast is exhausting; on others, reduced contrast is near-invisible. The “exhausting” machines can be configured to reduce contrast, but the “invisible” machines cannot trivially be configured to increase contrast.
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Can you recomend some good books or online courses teaching UI and graphical design?
Refactoring UI book has been helpful to me as a dev who wants to get something decent looking on the screen. https://www.refactoringui.com/book
I use to go through hundreds of typefaces like going through hundreds of photos on Tinder and think ‘they all suck’ but then I started adjusting the letter spacing and now I ‘love the one I’m with’.
I recently developed an unofficial corporate identity for my workplace (improving signage) that uses serif fonts. All the other signs use sans-serif which is half because it fits the modernist building and half because people don’t know how to do the manual kerning it takes to make serif fonts pop.
That said I have felt no need to kern for the web and have no desire since it will certainly go bad if the user isn’t seeing the typeface I want them to see.
I do a lot of work with print lately and manual kerning has been a revelation to me. I use to go through hundreds of typefaces like going through hundreds of photos on Tinder and think ‘they all suck’ but then I started adjusting the letter spacing and now I ‘love the one I’m with’. I recently developed an unofficial corporate identity for my workplace (improving signage) that uses serif fonts. All the other signs us…
This site - and other similar "web typography" sites - seems to immediately fall foul of that by using serif fonts. In my opinion this makes them less comfortable to read.
I thought a general rule was to use sans-serif fonts on electronic devices and serif fonts in print, because they are repsectively easier on the eye? This site - and other similar "web typography" sites - seems to immediately fall foul of that by using serif fonts. In my opinion this makes them less comfortable to read.
That fact doesn’t stop some people from repeating the old mantra.
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Without a doubt. Fast, clean, adaptable. What's not to like?
#fff on #000. I find the site pretty exhausting to read. Like most "motherfucking websites", a bad example for a good site.
To give you an example of the sort of high contrast user interfaces I like, turn on he dark High Contrast theme in VS Code.
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#fff on #000. I find the site pretty exhausting to read. Like most "motherfucking websites", a bad example for a good site.
That's your opinion. I personally think high contrast colour schemes are great, and use them whenever possible. I even bought a laptop with an OLED screen (XPS 13 9310) to further maximize contrast. I hate it when websites specify light grey text on a dark grey background; I find it so hard to read. To give you an example of the sort of high contrast user interfaces I like, turn on he dark High Contrast theme in VS C…
No idea what they do different, but while I don’t prefer it, it looks a lot less problematic than the website. There is no glare effect where the letters bleed into the black.