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Why does it need to look "modern?" If it's not broken, why try fixing it?
by mallaidh 9y ago
Why does it need to look "modern?" If it's not broken, why try fixing it?
- 542458 9y agoAt very least there are some modernizations you could do for text legibility. Screens are bigger now, and today lines of text that run the entire width of the page are unnecessarily difficult to read. Similarly, with more screen real-estate you could pump up that font-size and line spacing a bit.
- mallaidh 9y agoI'm having none of these problems, it's more legible than all of the "modernized" websites I've seen. Reasonable serif font, pure black text, pure white background. More legible than any posts on here, with the choice of gray text for certain things.
- 542458 9y agoHere's why I feel the lines should be shorter: https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability And the font bigger: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/16-pixels-body-copy-anything-less-costly-mistake/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/16-pixels-body-copy...
- mallaidh 9y agoNow for smashing magazine to change their font colors to #000, for legibility's sake.
- Double_a_92 9y agoThe line length is the main problem i would say.
- prawks 9y agoConsumer perception, mainly. It depends on the target audience of the page. Modern consumers have come to correlate certain appearances with quality. It's not an awesome cultural development, but you're not likely to gain much traction by fighting against that momentum unless you already have an oversized influence on that readership's expectations.
- clishem 9y agoIt needs a max-width somewhere. This website was not designed for 25' screens.
- dredmorbius 9y agoI've just tweaked the page with: body { width: auto; margin: 2em auto; max-width: 40em; font-size: large; line-height: 1.4; background-color: #fffff8; } * { line-height: 1.4; }