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Unfortunately the web is a visual medium and humans evolved to identify things with their eyes. Unless your audience is entirely the blind and partially sighte

Unfortunately the web is a visual medium and humans evolved to identify things with their eyes. Unless your audience is entirely the blind and partially sighted, visual identity is pretty important

krapp 3y ago
True hackers only read the web directly as source files fetched by CUrl and opened in Nano anyway. Only normies need anything more than their minds to "parse" or "compile" source.
bcrosby95 3y ago
Most books get by with a cover and hundreds of pages of only text.
- lexicality 3y ago
  I have a bookshelf of books next to me and the only ones with even slightly similar spines are books in the same series, not to speak of the covers. I opened a couple of text heavy ones and they all had different font choices and minor variations on page layout. Most of them had elaborate and unique chapter headings. Book typesetting is a fascinating subject, I would recommend anyone who works with websites to look into the way typography influences the reader's subconscious. (Maybe we'd have less Helvetica spaffed all over the internet!)
  - kkoncevicius 3y ago
    > I would recommend anyone who works with websites to look into the way typography influences the reader's subconscious. To me, paradoxically, it reached a point where my subconscious associates light or poor typography with serious material, and pretty web pages with empty ad-ridden content: Serious vibe: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/transint.html http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/transint.html Intermediate vibe: https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/30/Social-and-parasocial-media.html https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/30/Social-and-parasocial-med... Empty content vibe: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792382/google-notebooklm-tailwind-ai-notes https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792382/google-notebookl...
  - GoblinSlayer 3y ago
    Ebooks used to be plain text files, it worked well.

Unfortunately the web is a visual medium and humans evolved to identify things with their eyes. Unless your audience is entirely the blind and partially sighted, visual identity is pretty important

krapp 3y ago

True hackers only read the web directly as source files fetched by CUrl and opened in Nano anyway. Only normies need anything more than their minds to "parse" or "compile" source.

bcrosby95 3y ago

Most books get by with a cover and hundreds of pages of only text.

lexicality 3y ago
I have a bookshelf of books next to me and the only ones with even slightly similar spines are books in the same series, not to speak of the covers. I opened a couple of text heavy ones and they all had different font choices and minor variations on page layout. Most of them had elaborate and unique chapter headings. Book typesetting is a fascinating subject, I would recommend anyone who works with websites to look into the way typography influences the reader's subconscious. (Maybe we'd have less Helvetica spaffed all over the internet!)
- kkoncevicius 3y ago
  > I would recommend anyone who works with websites to look into the way typography influences the reader's subconscious. To me, paradoxically, it reached a point where my subconscious associates light or poor typography with serious material, and pretty web pages with empty ad-ridden content: Serious vibe: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/transint.html http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/transint.html Intermediate vibe: https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/30/Social-and-parasocial-media.html https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/30/Social-and-parasocial-med... Empty content vibe: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792382/google-notebooklm-tailwind-ai-notes https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792382/google-notebookl...
- GoblinSlayer 3y ago
  Ebooks used to be plain text files, it worked well.