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Are there any web sites that have beautiful typography?

wffurr 5y ago
https://practicaltypography.com/ https://practicaltypography.com/ is pretty great.
xattt 5y ago
I cringe a bit when I hear “beautiful typography”. Usually, this means style over substance. It is way easier to shave yaks about the way something looks (and feel productive doing it), than it is being concerned over the last 10% that takes content from good enough to great.
- theshadowknows 5y ago
  I cringe whenever people describe their app as “beautiful.” For the same reason.
mrob 5y ago
https://bestmotherfucking.website/ https://bestmotherfucking.website/
- qart 5y ago
  Without a doubt. Fast, clean, adaptable. What's not to like?
  - Semaphor 5y ago
    #fff on #000. I find the site pretty exhausting to read. Like most "motherfucking websites", a bad example for a good site.
    - wizzwizz4 5y ago
      Your monitor / browser is misconfigured. On some machines, maximum contrast is exhausting; on others, reduced contrast is near-invisible. The “exhausting” machines can be configured to reduce contrast, but the “invisible” machines cannot trivially be configured to increase contrast.
    - frosted-flakes 5y ago
      That's your opinion. I personally think high contrast colour schemes are great, and use them whenever possible. I even bought a laptop with an OLED screen (XPS 13 9310) to further maximize contrast. I hate it when websites specify light grey text on a dark grey background; I find it so hard to read. To give you an example of the sort of high contrast user interfaces I like, turn on he dark High Contrast theme in VS Code.
      - Semaphor 5y ago
        > To give you an example of the sort of high contrast user interfaces I like, turn on he dark High Contrast theme in VS Code. No idea what they do different, but while I don’t prefer it, it looks a lot less problematic than the website. There is no glare effect where the letters bleed into the black.
deltron3030 5y ago
The Marvin Visions site is cool: https://www.readvisions.com/marvin https://www.readvisions.com/marvin

https://practicaltypography.com/ https://practicaltypography.com/ is pretty great.

I cringe a bit when I hear “beautiful typography”. Usually, this means style over substance. It is way easier to shave yaks about the way something looks (and feel productive doing it), than it is being concerned over the last 10% that takes content from good enough to great.

theshadowknows 5y ago
I cringe whenever people describe their app as “beautiful.” For the same reason.

mrob 5y ago

https://bestmotherfucking.website/ https://bestmotherfucking.website/

qart 5y ago
Without a doubt. Fast, clean, adaptable. What's not to like?
- Semaphor 5y ago
  #fff on #000. I find the site pretty exhausting to read. Like most "motherfucking websites", a bad example for a good site.
  - wizzwizz4 5y ago
    Your monitor / browser is misconfigured. On some machines, maximum contrast is exhausting; on others, reduced contrast is near-invisible. The “exhausting” machines can be configured to reduce contrast, but the “invisible” machines cannot trivially be configured to increase contrast.
  - frosted-flakes 5y ago
    That's your opinion. I personally think high contrast colour schemes are great, and use them whenever possible. I even bought a laptop with an OLED screen (XPS 13 9310) to further maximize contrast. I hate it when websites specify light grey text on a dark grey background; I find it so hard to read. To give you an example of the sort of high contrast user interfaces I like, turn on he dark High Contrast theme in VS Code.
    - Semaphor 5y ago
      > To give you an example of the sort of high contrast user interfaces I like, turn on he dark High Contrast theme in VS Code. No idea what they do different, but while I don’t prefer it, it looks a lot less problematic than the website. There is no glare effect where the letters bleed into the black.

deltron3030 5y ago

The Marvin Visions site is cool: https://www.readvisions.com/marvin https://www.readvisions.com/marvin