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Re: New Homepage

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Post by jQueryIsAwesome » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 9:12 AM UTC

itslogic wrote: post #66

debacle wrote: post #9

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If only I had the time.

Ah! But you had the time to view the updated site, read hacker news, and reply to the thread... I believe you do have time.

"I don't have the time" is an expression for "Is no relevant enough for me to do something about it". If your house gets on fire doesn't matter how busy you are at the moment you will do something about it.

Re: New Homepage

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Post by sgh_1 » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 9:36 AM UTC

jeremymcanally wrote: post #32

franze wrote: post #24

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if the only place where you display your most popular visual brand element is the footer and the favicon, you are doing it wrong.

We've never had an Octocat on the home page, actually.

Should Octocat not occupy more prominence than the third party logos --- at least, any branding guy would say so ...

Re: New Homepage

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Post by mikesten » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 10:37 AM UTC

peterjmag wrote: post #4

I've been finding Proxima Nova[1] everywhere this year. I'm not complaining though—I think it's a beautiful, highly readable typeface. [1] https://typekit.com/fonts/proxima-nova

I have a little project where I'm collecting uses of web fonts and half the sites I come across are using Proxima Nova: http://www.typ.io/fonts/proxima_nova... But it _is_ nice and incredibly versatile. I love its caps and its bold.

Just added customer.io too. ;)

Re: New Homepage

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Post by swah » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 10:55 AM UTC

sudonim wrote: post #6

peterjmag wrote: post #4

I've been finding Proxima Nova[1] everywhere this year. I'm not complaining though—I think it's a beautiful, highly readable typeface. [1] https://typekit.com/fonts/proxima-nova

Yup! We use Proxima-Nova. It's probably the next Helvetica Neue (i.e. hipster designers will be rolling their eyes at you soon). One of the things that's great about it is there are so many variations: Regular, Light, Regular Italic, Light Italic, Semibold, Bold, Extrabold, Black, Semibold Italic, Bold Italic. Most other sans-serif typefaces we evaluated didn't have enough variation that it could reliably service any…

Off-topic: do you know where a beautiful document like http://www.marksimonson.com/fontspecimens/ProximaNovaOvervie... is made?

Re: New Homepage

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Post by debacle » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 2:06 PM UTC

itslogic wrote: post #66

debacle wrote: post #9

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If only I had the time.

Ah! But you had the time to view the updated site, read hacker news, and reply to the thread... I believe you do have time.

It took me about two minutes to do all of that. Updating the github homepage would take at least two orders of magnitude greater effort, more likely closer to three.

Re: New Homepage

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Post by sudonim » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 1:38 AM UTC

mikesten wrote: post #73

peterjmag wrote: post #4

I've been finding Proxima Nova[1] everywhere this year. I'm not complaining though—I think it's a beautiful, highly readable typeface. [1] https://typekit.com/fonts/proxima-nova

I have a little project where I'm collecting uses of web fonts and half the sites I come across are using Proxima Nova: http://www.typ.io/fonts/proxima_nova.. . But it _is_ nice and incredibly versatile. I love its caps and its bold. Just added customer.io too. ;)

Cool! Thanks Mike.