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I appreciate you engaging with commenters on this, it’s nice to see. From my perspective I agree with a lot of the other commenters - it’s just design for desi

I appreciate you engaging with commenters on this, it’s nice to see. From my perspective I agree with a lot of the other commenters - it’s just design for design’s sake. It’s an expensive way to add minor visual flair that heavily degrades the experience for a sizeable number of users. In terms of value provided to the user: it’s basically zero, or often worse than zero. Personally, it feels over-designed, which the stretched font for the headings really reinforces. I’d drop the shader, re-evaluate your font choice for the headings, and focus on layout and readability a little more - using the site on my iPhone feels really cramped and like the whole page is getting cut off on the right-hand side constantly. I can’t scroll horizontally to see the rest of the code, for example. I do like the little text-flicker/flipboard animation on the “keygen” logo though. That looks clean and well-suited to the theme of the site.

ezekg 3y ago
I spent weeks on the typography and on choosing a font. Went through so many different styles. I ended up on Owners by MCKL [^0] because I personally like the ultra-wide font trend, and I liked its Text variant as well. Bummed to hear that others aren't a fan of it. Oh well, design is pretty subjective. And it may be over-designed. It was my first foray back into design since switching careers to programming about 10 years ago. Maybe I took it a bit too far? Felt good to stretch those muscles, though. :) [^0]: https://mckltype.com/owners/ https://mckltype.com/owners/
- oefnak 3y ago
  That wide font is on purpose?! No offense, but I was sure something went wrong with rendering the page.
  - arthur2e5 3y ago
    It didn't quite register as a "display" font variant usually does for me either -- the only feature is the width (it's a nonfancy sans-serif, what do you expect) so it somehow just feels like it's been squished. Intellectually I know it's definitely not a simple scale-transformation and must have involved some curve work to make it look less off, but I just can't shake the feeling of having seen text getting run over by a truck.

ezekg 3y ago

I spent weeks on the typography and on choosing a font. Went through so many different styles. I ended up on Owners by MCKL [^0] because I personally like the ultra-wide font trend, and I liked its Text variant as well. Bummed to hear that others aren't a fan of it. Oh well, design is pretty subjective. And it may be over-designed. It was my first foray back into design since switching careers to programming about 10 years ago. Maybe I took it a bit too far? Felt good to stretch those muscles, though. :) [^0]: https://mckltype.com/owners/ https://mckltype.com/owners/

oefnak 3y ago
That wide font is on purpose?! No offense, but I was sure something went wrong with rendering the page.
- arthur2e5 3y ago
  It didn't quite register as a "display" font variant usually does for me either -- the only feature is the width (it's a nonfancy sans-serif, what do you expect) so it somehow just feels like it's been squished. Intellectually I know it's definitely not a simple scale-transformation and must have involved some curve work to make it look less off, but I just can't shake the feeling of having seen text getting run over by a truck.