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Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems li
by btipling 17y ago
Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems like a blog post could have done just the same without all the fancy graphics and what not.
- jayair 17y agoSame here, I struggled to read the whole thing. By comparison the screenshots were refreshing to look at.
- arohner 17y agoActually, I had a harder time reading your comment, while my eyes re-adjusted to a more "normal" color scheme.
- joegaudet 17y agoI was just thinking the same thing.
- MaysonL 17y agoIf you happen to be on a mac, control-option-command-8 is your friend. Also, the readability bookmarklet does wonders for the appearance of sites like these. (And thanks to the people on HN who originally introduced me to these)
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- thinkbohemian 17y agowow, i've never seen that before, thanks!
- petercooper 17y agocontrol-option-command-8 is your friend Ditto for if you go to Best Buy or any other non Apple store that sells Macs. They never know about this delightful key combo. </8 year old level of humor>
- gommm 17y agoGlad I'm not the only one to sometimes be a bit childish and do this :-)
- daten 17y agoControl-Option-Command-8 switches the display to greyscale, then inverts it (in other words, black text on white becomes white text on black).
- dkersten 17y agoAgreed. I gave up even trying to read it. My eyes still hurt. :-(
- Que 17y agoThe site and the god awful grid background image (appears on doubleclick) was enough to inspire me to make a new bookmarklet. My first impression, article aside, was that the site made baby Jesus cry. Edit: In retrospect I think it was the combination of the orange and the grid background (I have a tendency to doubleclick on everything) that really put it over the edge for me, the main design isn't terrible.
- dutchflyboy 17y agoHmm, I actually find the site quite nice. It's quite simple, readable and with some quite nice graphics. But I agree, that background image is really horrible.
- armandososa 17y agoWhat I can't understand is: why would you double-click a webpage?
- Que 17y agoI doubleclick text and blank areas constantly I realize this probably drives people insane, but while I'm reading a paragraph I will keep doubleclicking to select and deselect the text over and over. Somehow it helps my concentration.. I do this with code as well. That's why I have bookmarklets to disable the dictionary lookups and other what I consider annoyances on sites that implement those features on doubleclick and yes I've been told that I'm crazy on many occasions.
- hacknews 17y agoI am the only who thinks the post's title is boring.
- ja27 17y agoTO;DR
- vijaydev 17y agopardon me if this is lame. What does the O in TO mean?
- AgentConundrum 17y agoOrange, as per the GP's complaint.
- RevRal 17y agoWhen a page sears my optic nerves, I find it easiest to just disable its styles.
- KirinDave 17y agoI wish I could say yes. I found the color scheme interesting and a nice refreshing change from "Everyone's Posterous." But I guess there are people who will complain about anything that is different. The slight irony of posting a complaint against orange while you were surely looking at a band of electric orange is not lost on me. (At least, I assume you're with orange. Has pg lifted the karma restriction from the custom color preference?)
- vcrash 17y agoThere is quite the difference between a little bar of orange and a whole screenful of it.
- KirinDave 17y agoThere's also quite a difference between the orange on this site (a harsh electric orange) and the relatively mild and somewhat popular shade of orange on the article, so I think it's a wash.
- vcrash 17y agoI don't think that there's that much of a difference - The site starts out the same colour as the header, in fact, and fades gradually. The majority of the piece, however, is on quite bright orange. http://omploader.org/vM3h3OA/Sample.PNG http://omploader.org/vM3h3OA/Sample.PNG (HN topbar, start of site, middle of site, bottom of orange section of site.)
- KirinDave 17y agoI suppose the main argument was: “So what? Orange is not hard to read on. It sounds like you're complaining because you like to complain about different things.” Appropriate contrast was maintained, the entire design was not overly luminescent. Since it was the background color it did not create a wicked eye-draw the way the banner at the top of our comment pages here do. If you don't like unusual designs then you shouldn't read peepcode; a magazine format is one of their boasted mission statements.
- jlees 17y agoEveryone wants to be Dustin Curtis. Still, the author calling HN posters Neanderthals was a nice touch.
- notanidiot 17y agoJoy Division was a great band, although I thought the lead singer died in the 80’s.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoDisambiguation: * http://dustincurtis.com/ http://dustincurtis.com/ * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Curtis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Curtis
- dmix 17y agoChoosing such a username is always risky.
- ilovecomputers 17y agoWell actually, it's common in the printing business to have each article to be of a unique style. Take National Geographic for instance. One article has a different theme: http://www.valeriedaysings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/national-geographic-article.jpg http://www.valeriedaysings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/na... from another: http://www.simongarnier.com/images/wordpress/ft_hdr.5.jpg http://www.simongarnier.com/images/wordpress/ft_hdr.5.jpg Well actually, those are title pages, but I've read those articles and I can attest that the different designs set a suitable mood for the topic at hand. I applaud web publishers for taking up this paradigm and applying what publishing graphic designers have been doing for some time. Of course with most methods of design, it depends if the occasion is suitable. Some online publications can do well with a consistent design: http://www.alistapart.com/ http://www.alistapart.com/ While others do well with differing designs, almost as if each posting of their articles is a treat for their readers: http://trentwalton.com/articles/ http://trentwalton.com/articles/ just like D.Curtis does, so good on him if he has inspired others to do the same.
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- alexfarran 17y agoThe readability bookmarklet is quite handy http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
- BoppreH 17y agoUnfortunately it's not perfect. It didn't display the icons correctly and there was no clear division between and after the scenarios. That's why I tend to use it more for reading medium-long stories, not fixing website's design.
- AgentConundrum 17y agojavascript:document.body.style.background = "#fff";void(0);
- rao 17y agothanks!
- mhartl 17y agoThis is part of Geoffrey Grosenbach's project to use a different design for each blog post; see http://blog.peepcode.com/tutorials/2010/about-this-blog http://blog.peepcode.com/tutorials/2010/about-this-blog. (Not that I'm endorsing the rather orange design, but that's the motivation.)
- ComputerGuru 17y agoReadability bookmark ftw.