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What are the most visually appealing blogs you've seen?

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Re: What are the most visually appealing blogs you've seen?

#11

https://gwern.net/index

The dark mode on that site is awful, I had to immediately toggle to light mode.

I haven't noticed, because I don't use dark mode, instead relying on dimming brightness and contrast of my displays while having soft and warm background illumination :-)

In light mode I miss some color themeing, like soft/warm something yellowbrown/manilapaperstyle instead of that hard black&white, but it still 'works for me' that way.

Or maybe a lighter grey like https://fabiensanglard.net/

If that were the case, I think something like this should be the default(on dektop) for wikipedia.

Re: What are the most visually appealing blogs you've seen?

#16

I really like low tech magazine [0]. Their design was the inspiration for my own [1]. 0. http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ 1. https://hedgerider.farm

same. it's relaxing to the eye, the font is monospace I think, the colors are "calm" and it's not a wall of text. It's also fast to load.

Re: What are the most visually appealing blogs you've seen?

#17

https://gwern.net/index

The dark mode on that site is awful, I had to immediately toggle to light mode.

I'm surprised to hear that. I think it looks like a straightforward inversion of the light-mode, which you aren't complaining about, and generally, people seem to like it & I see lots of screenshots of it on social media.

Are you sure there is not a bug? Could you describe what is so bad about it or upload a screenshot somewhere? If you'd prefer to do this over email, I am .

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