I can't get over how quant https://rondesantis.com/ is – it's like they time-travelled an intern from 2005 to do it.
Typography 2024: For America’s Best
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#12> The website looks like the default theme that shipped with WordPress in 2009
Butterick doesn't know, this is actually a compliment.
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#13I can't get over how quant https://rondesantis.com/ is – it's like they time-travelled an intern from 2005 to do it.
I can't agree. I think it's pretty fresh, clean, fast, does the job. I actually like it.
source: I play a web designer on TV.
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#14For all of the campaign's faults, the Clinton 2016 design and web teams did a fantastic job. https://www.hillaryforamericadesign.com/work
It's modern and bold, it's just got a lot going on. It's hard to know what the hell to click on.
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#15Loved it. Since it seems to be slanted to humor. Wouldn't mind seeing some ranking/point system for each, and then a score indicator for Republican's/Democrat, like an election count. Who is winning the Font Wars.
Or build a website that lets you pick any candidate and any style to display them - and then you could look at all styles with your preferred-or hated-candidate.
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#16I'm no fan of Republicans, but he's trying too hard to be funny. It'd be less boring to read if he just spoke about the font choices, and saved the political satire for Reddit.
I beg to differ, a clinical run down of which web sites use which fonts would be far more boring to read.
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#17For all of the campaign's faults, the Clinton 2016 design and web teams did a fantastic job. https://www.hillaryforamericadesign.com/work
It's modern and bold, it's just got a lot going on. It's hard to know what the hell to click on.
The archive site isn’t great for usability but the 2016 campaign site seems fine to me.
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#18I can't get over how quant https://rondesantis.com/ is – it's like they time-travelled an intern from 2005 to do it.
At least it's responsive and works on mobile.
To be honest if a candidate embraced 90s style web design I would be far more likely to vote for them.
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#19For all of the campaign's faults, the Clinton 2016 design and web teams did a fantastic job. https://www.hillaryforamericadesign.com/work
This is awful design, though.
How am I supposed to find what I want to click on with that page without hovering over everything? Not only that, that page is from 2016, the "young voters" already had phones by that point... how are you supposed to hover on a phone? (I assume the phone experience is entirely different here, fwiw).
This reminds me a lot of toy websites I made in the early to mid 2000s when I didn't care about accessibility or usability or discoverability, and made stuff that looked cool for the sake of cool. I cringe at those things I made when I didn't know better.
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#20I can't get over how quant https://rondesantis.com/ is – it's like they time-travelled an intern from 2005 to do it.
I actually quite like it. I don't agree with the author's point that it gets "sludgey" in the middle of the gradient either. It's fast and the contrast holds up and it isn't too busy.
I do not like Ron at all but his web team/person did a good job IMO.