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For me, this online-book is the most beautiful site on the entire web, at least with the default Valkyrie font. It's a prime example of how excellent content de
by aasasd 8y ago
For me, this online-book is the most beautiful site on the entire web, at least with the default Valkyrie font. It's a prime example of how excellent content design can be made in black-and-white, and the sorta-recent wave of "this is a website" pages didn't come close to it. White space there is simply magical, every single interval is perfect―I envy the author for the ability to achieve that.
The site, together with other Butterick's online-books, also uses a rather non-traditional styling for headings: they stand out just a bit from the body text by the use of bold face, and that's enough. Every day, I see examples of either loud and heavy headings, or subheadings that are not obvious―on very popular sites―and I keep thinking how I would apply Butterick's trick, alas to no avail.
- waivek 8y agoTry equity also
- unimpressive 8y agoI think the thing that makes this ebook stand out, is that it's native web content. Most "ebooks" on the web resemble the infamous photograph-of-a-printout web design strategy: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Web_0_0x2e_1 https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Web_0_0x2e_1 Your average ebook is textbook or published book content put in the media equivalent of an iframe. Butterick's websites are not that. I have a friend who's a huge fan of Butterick and did a similar thing with his take on Eliezer Yudkowsky. https://www.readthesequences.com/ https://www.readthesequences.com/ I'd very much like to see more websites in this style and fewer "iframes".
- aasasd 8y agoIt's really ironic how, with all that effort, your dude went with justified alignment. I can't even read justified text these days because my brain keeps muttering that it is wrong. Also the text could use some margins when displayed on a phone.