Long back i built something similar to show a rich preview of articles posted on Hacker News.
Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
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#132Kudos, amazing effort!
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#133You should find a better font and work a little on the proportions. Nice to see the images, a little more polished and I would use this instead of the normal HN website.
The font is whatever you have as the default in your browser—if you don’t like it then set a better one :) I agree about the spacing, it feels off to me too but I couldn’t put my finger on why. Whitespace has always been a challenge for me (I still remember my mom looking at my elementary school projects and telling me repeatedly, “Margins! You need more margins!”) and though I’m getting better at it I don’t expect t…
>if you don’t like it then set a better one
Which would affect every site.
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#134cool!
[bookmarked]
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#135Wow. I thought this would just be gimmicky, but I kind of... almost actually like it better than the main HN page. Having text snippets from the first paragraph, and an image, give me waaay more information as to whether something's interesting enough to click. This is really, really nice. A bunch of random thoughts, hopefully it's useful feedback: - I don't care about it looking like a "paper", but I love the grid v…
-1 to images in color. BW images are way less distracting. According to your comment I think you might like https://hnews.xyz/ that I read when in mood of a "HN magazine". I'm tempted to make a switch now.
I really like both this and the Show HN! Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
#136You should find a better font and work a little on the proportions. Nice to see the images, a little more polished and I would use this instead of the normal HN website.
The font is whatever you have as the default in your browser—if you don’t like it then set a better one :) I agree about the spacing, it feels off to me too but I couldn’t put my finger on why. Whitespace has always been a challenge for me (I still remember my mom looking at my elementary school projects and telling me repeatedly, “Margins! You need more margins!”) and though I’m getting better at it I don’t expect t…
If you change the section border-style to dotted and overall font-family to sans-serif your website basically becomes https://www.bloomberg.com :)
Also for large device widths margins of something like 20% makes it more readable. Visit somethings like https://www.nytimes.com and compare how much narrower the content is.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not everyone has a Helvetica font installed; at least add the generic sans-serif as a fallback. (Though if the aim is to be reminiscent of a print newspaper, a serif font may still be the better choice.) Why disable kerning? If the user's font has kerning information, surely a newspaper should respect it.
You're completely right. Helvetica was just a suggestion as most newspapers use it and is widely supported, but he could and should add fallbacks (preferally sans-serif based). As for the kerning it appears something was messing up the spacing for his website and the combination of disabling kerning and letter spacing (even if counter-intuitive) seems to 'make it prettier' at least in firefox.
I'm a bit surprised by the statement that "most newspapers use it [Helvetica]", as my perception is that they mostly use a serif font. (How do you suppose Times Roman got its name?)
But perhaps this varies between markets/regions/languages/etc.
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#138Re: Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
tada https://boards.kenforthewin.com/b/news
That's cool but it doesn't seem to have any users. And only NYT as a source (for now). And even if it had users there's no way to align them with my interests (you might get a hoard of neo-nazis upvoting all the wrong stories). This could be solved by basing it off a specific subreddit, for example. That said it's a cool RSS'y way of browsing NYT.
I haven't really posted it anywhere yet, just a WIP side project for now. That said you can create your own Board and add any RSS feed, and moderate comments.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
#140Wow. I thought this would just be gimmicky, but I kind of... almost actually like it better than the main HN page. Having text snippets from the first paragraph, and an image, give me waaay more information as to whether something's interesting enough to click. This is really, really nice. A bunch of random thoughts, hopefully it's useful feedback: - I don't care about it looking like a "paper", but I love the grid v…
-1 to images in color. BW images are way less distracting. According to your comment I think you might like https://hnews.xyz/ that I read when in mood of a "HN magazine". I'm tempted to make a switch now.
I'd love to see it taken further with the images half-toned, I'm sure there has to be a good half-toning CSS filter out there somewhere.