I'm not 100% on some the details (like whitespace and contrast), but definitely A++ for effort.
Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
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Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
#62nice try, but its way better to see 20 items at a glance than to mouse around a acre of white space. readability isn't everything, workability matters too. " +" is a good compromise if your eyes are going!
Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
#63Love everything apart from the fixed-width main column. Leaves me with huge margins at either side with my usual window width.
This is, of course, a personal preference, but I would much rather have a column with a fixed width based on how many characters we can expect in that column. Lines stretching across the screen at 120+ characters can be unwieldy.
That's the reason i don't maximize windows. Sites like HN let lines of text go way too far for a window that's 1000+ px wide.
Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
#64I like this, but there's a lot of white space .. perhaps too much. Maybe a more compact view would be useful? Like others have said, the grey is too pale. EDIT: It would be nice if the layout made use of columns .. this could provide innovative use of wide-screen resolutions.
I also agree. There is too much white color, the readability is not very good. I was exited about it as i already mentionned here that there is room for improvment of HN. i'll uninstall it now. looking forward to try a corrected version.
Colornazi in me has to point out that white isn't really a color, otherwise I agree.
Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
#65This is my first every public release of such a thing! So please be gentle and do give any feedback that can improve the extension.
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Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also agree. There is too much white color, the readability is not very good. I was exited about it as i already mentionned here that there is room for improvment of HN. i'll uninstall it now. looking forward to try a corrected version.
Colornazi in me has to point out that white isn't really a color, otherwise I agree.
It's as much a color as any other -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color
Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
#67I suggested similar thing one year ago: http://www.vcarrer.com/2010/03/hacker-news-mini-redesign-uno... and the bookmarklet http://www.allapis.com/HN/HN-bookmarlet.html
Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
#68I think the next thing is to provide customization. That is, you can change colors and some settings (like padding and margin) to control white space. You may want also to change the font. I actually like the white space. Just the grey is a little bit pale, but this helps for concentration on the text that matters. Taste differs, not good to argue about it.
It's still a good move from the Author. I was thinking of something similar, but time was a constraint. I might look to help improving that one. Any Github?
Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
#69Love everything apart from the fixed-width main column. Leaves me with huge margins at either side with my usual window width.
I'll take that over a way-too-long line of text any day. Improves readability.
Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
#70I like the idea, and there are several aspects of the georgify format that are pleasing. My main comment is that there is far too much vertical whitespace. The compactness of hn is pleasant to the eye, and it lets readers scan headlines quickly. A little tweaking will prevent readers from having to scroll so much.
It's easy enough to add generous whitespace and make a design instantly more elegant and viscerally appealing, but when you are trying to extract value from information there is something to be said for information density.
This is my beef with the new Sparrow Gmail client on OS X as well. When I open up Gmail in Chrome I can see 33 messages at once (40 once I scroll). By contrast Sparrow shows me 13 (always utilizing the full vertical of the screen). Now arguably it presents them in a better fashion (although the label display is lacking, but I digress), but is it worth sacrificing 2/3rds the visibility? Not with my email volume.
Granted, information density is less important for HN, but then so is aesthetic appeal (the last thing I want is more people joining HN because it has an elegant appearance).