Replying to comments about our web page design

>progressive

nothing progressive about this design. just call yourself peculiar instead of giving this veneer of betterment

The only thing the design needs is a max width on the paragraphs for large screens.

If you want it to be even more readable you could do the following:

    font-size: clamp(1em, 1.3vw, 1.3em);

I would also consider using `rem` instead of `em` incase you want to use it anywhere other than the root element.

Tried out all of their themes on the welcome page, which seems like a nice showcase of what's available when you switch the themes: https://research.exoticsilicon.com/welcome

Here's the aspects that I personally enjoyed:

  - Tropical nights: this feels like a pleasant theme on the eyes, almost like an IDE dark mode
  - Nitrate memories: another theme that feels fairly readable, with the contrast being okay in *most* places
  - Light pastels: this one dials down the colors a little bit so they're not as distracting

That said, when most of the web looks more or less the same way, it feels like this site stands out too much and the design detracts from the experience, in my eyes. For example, opening the page linked in this post, you're confronted with colorful shadows, titles (the questions) in a serif font that's not as bold as the answers that come in a sans serif font, a static background for when you scroll the content that's an image that you can't quite read.

I'd probably just have a chuckle about the quirky design and go browse other sites that might have the information that I'm looking for, due to my eyes scanning them more quickly and easily, much like you'd look at data in a spreadsheet (sans annoying pop-ups and other dark patterns that web is plagued with). But you know what? Their website design is none of my business, it's fine for them to make their own choices and run it how they desire, even if some of the answers on this particular page are a bit on the nose.

Can't say whether we'd benefit from more or less of that, in general, though.

Seems unlikely to be enforceable as "overly expansive", as someone could surely argue our brains are just AI and/or ML but in organic form. Does that mean I'm not allowed to learn from the website?