Back To Readability
I’m in the planning stages for a redesign of this site, which I don’t plan to get done till 2007, but that doesn’t mean the current site can’t handle a couple of tweaks. While reading the excellent article, Web Design is 95% Typography II, I noticed that Oliver included a link to Wisdump which affectionately states what more than a handful of people have said about the site.
Scrivs, you are without no doubt the dude 2.0 - and your company does amazing stuff, but what were you thinking when you downscaled the font size on wisdump? I know that I can scale it up with a simple key combination, but I don’t want to. I used to read wisdump (ex whitespace) weekly. I don’t read it anymore because I am too lazy to adjust the font size.
That’s all I needed to hear so what did I do? I looked at his stylesheet and stole his font code so now we are back to being able to read the site without feeling that every paragraph is a footnote. There are a lot more little fixes to do with this current version, but for now I hope this brings one or two people back.
You people should have scolded me more. Please forgive me.
And if you aren’t on a Mac you are missing out on some typography goodness. However, this small little change means that I have to make a couple more small little changes, but I will do that when I wakeup. Till then…
By Scrivs on November 13, 2006 1:12 am
Ah I noticed it right away, very nice.
By Dimitry on November 13, 2006 2:28 am
Nice!
The next tweak could be to change the order of your fonts to “Lucida Grande”, “Helvetica Neue” (not “Neue Helvetica”), Helvetica to make things look even better to us Mac users ;-).
By Roger Johansson on November 13, 2006 7:16 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you Scrivs.
By Rami Kayyali on November 13, 2006 10:06 am
It’s so… big. I honestly liked it better small. :/
By Andre on November 13, 2006 2:18 pm
Yeah for the redesign it will probably be a notch smaller, but for now I went extreme. Besides this is the browser’s default size (set to 100%) so blame it, not me :).
By Scrivs on November 13, 2006 2:22 pm
Certainly more legible, but it doesn’t hurt the design at all, so no loss. Look forward to the new look. Dude 2.0 eh? Then should you be referred to as Your Dudeness then?
By John Labriola on November 13, 2006 4:17 pm
I love it when bloggers listen to their readers and improve their blogs :)
By Montoya on November 13, 2006 5:30 pm
[...] Font settings from Oreo by Scrivs. [...]
By //engtech gets new CSS duds « //engtech on November 24, 2006 7:40 pm
I can’t help but wonder why everyone complains about font sizes, which can be changed in any browser, but not about the even more annoying vogue for pale grey type, which can’t be changed unless one chooses to override all colors settings. The low contrast is virtually unreadable for older eyes like mine.
By Catana on December 22, 2006 10:12 am
… it’s still a good deal too small for comfortable reading, particularly the comments.
By Amy on February 20, 2007 10:36 pm