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While I was reading this rant about erroneous brackets, I was consistently thrown off by the authors wrong styling of links. That is not even snark, the bold r
by blackbrokkoli 6y ago
While I was reading this rant about erroneous brackets, I was consistently thrown off by the authors wrong styling of links.
That is not even snark, the bold read, weirdly placed lines under links kept pulling my eyes in. Apparently, the author removed the (old-fashioned, but agreed upon) typographical underline for links and replaced it by border-bottom, which starts below the descender of the letters instead of the baseline. That way, they look...misaligned.
Meanwhile, I never considered the brackets in quotes confusing and found them quite helpful at times, especially when reading particularly old English which is weird enough even if correct.
Not sure what the lesson is here, but definitively entertaining.
- monadgonad 6y agoThe author did not do that at all. This is a major magazine; individual contributors are extremely far removed from the website design.