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You didn't ask me, but I'm on a 5K display and I'll give you my take. The paragraph text looks fine. Maybe bump the font size up a tiny bit and give it a little
by eloisius 5y ago
You didn't ask me, but I'm on a 5K display and I'll give you my take. The paragraph text looks fine. Maybe bump the font size up a tiny bit and give it a little more width than 620px. This is personal preference, but I'm not a huge fan of small caps, especially when applied too liberally. It usually looks better on paper, but on the screen it looks too wide and too unbalanced to me. Last, the drop shadows are superfluous, look pretty ugly, and actually distract from the otherwise minimal and attractive design of your site, especially on my phone. Last last: I'd ditch or at least de-emphasize the social share icons. My hunch is that no one uses them anyway, and having them hang out at the top of the screen no matter where you scroll is distracting.
- lelanthran 5y agoThank you so very much! All of these items are noted and I'll give them a try. I's actually really hard to get an indication of how readable your blog is to HN viewers without actually spamming it to HN.
- jfk13 5y agoAnother small detail: don't use a hyphen as punctuation in cases like > let’s move on - what happens ... It looks rather lost and lonely, floating there between the parts of the sentence. What you want here is an em dash—like this—to separate the phrases. (It's Unicode character U+2014, or the — entity in HTML.) It is often set without any surrounding spaces, though some people — perhaps depending on the font being used — like to have a thin space (U+2009) before and after. A regular space is certainly too much.
- lelanthran 5y agoI'll look into that; I don't know how that is done in emacs (thee entire website is generated from emacs org mode files).