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Typography 2024: For America’s Best

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Re: Typography 2024: For America’s Best

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Post by sbdaman »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #19
sbdaman wrote: post #10

For 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…

It seems like you’re focused on the archive site, which I agree isn’t great for usability.

Re: Typography 2024: For America’s Best

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Post by DiabloD3 »

arp242 wrote: post #11

I can't get over how quant https://rondesantis.com/ is – it's like they time-travelled an intern from 2005 to do it.

To be fair, the only major complaint I have with that website is the gradient background (the strong red and strong blue) are both relatively the same perceptual brightness and tend to lead eyesight away from the content. Else, it looks like somebody's 2010s political blog; it works fine, although it could use more content.

Works great for those trying to get the vote of the older folk. Hate the bigoted, sexist, and racist views of the candidate, but I can't hate on his election website too much.

Also, given he's trying to get older folk to vote for him, his webdev should consider 16pt (not 16px, this isn't a typo) for the text. As we get older, our eyes get fucking awful.

Re: Typography 2024: For America’s Best

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Post by larry_mulgrave »

workingdog wrote: post #7
hitekker wrote: post #6

I'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 am a Republicans, and his snark was awesome and hit right on the (clown) nose.

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Re: Typography 2024: For America’s Best

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

chrisco255 wrote: post #18
arp242 wrote: post #11

I 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.

I don’t think a candidates choice in web design will affect most voters’ likeliness to vote for them. It is much more important in attracting g volunteers and donators.

Re: Typography 2024: For America’s Best

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Post by giraffe_lady »

larry_mulgrave wrote: post #23
workingdog wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am a Republicans, and his snark was awesome and hit right on the (clown) nose.

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Most charitably they are probably just wealthy, and correctly recognize that republicans openly and consistently back their interests. While democrats only usually do and often appear ashamed of it.

Re: Typography 2024: For America’s Best

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Post by masswerk »

From an aesthetic perspective, I actually like the Cornel West site. It's a blast from the past, as in a website actually trying to articulate anything. Especially, how West isn't just featured as a bystander in his own campaign (as in most other designs), but actually the visual pivot that brings the elements together to form a message. (You could say, the activity evoked by this design choice may be even shocking in comparison to other campaign sites.) The unusual color palette of the action buttons in the top right corner makes a great counterpoint, both separating concerns and balancing the over-all design, bringing it to life. There isn't any need for a dramatic font choice. — While it's certainly a risky outlier, I'd like to see more of this in general web design.

[Disclaimer: I'm a European with no (under)standing in/of any of the politics involved.]

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