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Perhaps this is just gratuitous bike-shedding, but somewhere between the font [1], the line-height, the general layout (narrow columns shifting about, sometimes
by bshimmin 10y ago
Perhaps this is just gratuitous bike-shedding, but somewhere between the font [1], the line-height, the general layout (narrow columns shifting about, sometimes transparently on top of imagery), I found this article quite unpleasant to read. Given they have clearly made an effort with the layout and appearance of these long-form pieces, this surely must be a rather disappointing result.
[1] Basically the default sans-serif, depending on your operating system: "Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif". If you turn this off, you get PT Serif, which feels considerably easier on the eye, frankly.
- meowface 10y agoThat was my immediate impression, too. Very irritating design. Seems like they were going for something like Bloomberg's "rich" longform articles, but without knowledge of good design principles.
- caoilte 10y agoThere's some equally off-putting gimmickry in the podcast series too. I think they're trying to compensate for the lack of on the record interviews. Should have just hired Adam Curtis...
- lloydde 10y agoI also found this distracting. The worst is trying to scroll up a little bit and have the text jump in Brave on iOS.