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http://imageshack.us/a/img228/8256/alat.png http://imageshack.us/a/img228/8256/alat.png I see the same thing. I have a hard time believing it is intentional, but even so, I think it looks sloppy.

colmvp 14y ago
I don't think it looks sloppy. It's intentionally styled like a magazine. Magazines deliberately break typographic conventions.
- bullseye 14y ago
  Fair enough. I guess I'm just not a fan of websites that want to look like printed material, which is by most accounts an inferior medium.
- keithpeter 14y ago
  I see your point, but my Web browser is also an interface, and the way the top cuts the header off makes it look as if there is a rendering problem. It feels to me a bit like a glossy magazine printed on good quality stock having a cover with a crease in it by design. Most would just assume they got a creased copy until the saw the others.
- frogpelt 14y ago
  I've never looked at a quality magazine cover and thought 'did they mean to for it look like that?' I thought that with this page. So, that's one glaring difference.
  - cypher543 14y ago
    That's because a magazine is printed and its appearance doesn't vary between people looking at it, so we automatically assume that it's supposed to look the way it does. A website can look differently depending on which browser is rendering it.
- jere 14y ago
  Usually a magazine overlays its title with a very dramatic photo of a person, which makes the person stand out. And usually only a few letters are obscured. Our brains are quite good at filling in the details. Example: http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/fashion/daily/2012/08/09/09-lady-gaga-vogue-cover.o.jpg/a_4x-horizontal.jpg http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/fashion/daily/2012/08/09/09-lady... I'm a lot less impressed by a fricking navigational toolbar that obscures the top of every letter of the logo. What remains are the less recognizable bottom halves of the letters. The T and I (not shown, but also F) look identical for instance. I'll believe that this is intentional, but I think it looks horrible.
keithpeter 14y ago
I get the same on Firefox (aka Iceweasel) 10.0.12 on Debian Wheezy. I thought there was a rendering issue until I read the parent comment.

http://imageshack.us/a/img228/8256/alat.png http://imageshack.us/a/img228/8256/alat.png I see the same thing. I have a hard time believing it is intentional, but even so, I think it looks sloppy.

colmvp 14y ago

I don't think it looks sloppy. It's intentionally styled like a magazine. Magazines deliberately break typographic conventions.

bullseye 14y ago
Fair enough. I guess I'm just not a fan of websites that want to look like printed material, which is by most accounts an inferior medium.
keithpeter 14y ago
I see your point, but my Web browser is also an interface, and the way the top cuts the header off makes it look as if there is a rendering problem. It feels to me a bit like a glossy magazine printed on good quality stock having a cover with a crease in it by design. Most would just assume they got a creased copy until the saw the others.
frogpelt 14y ago
I've never looked at a quality magazine cover and thought 'did they mean to for it look like that?' I thought that with this page. So, that's one glaring difference.
- cypher543 14y ago
  That's because a magazine is printed and its appearance doesn't vary between people looking at it, so we automatically assume that it's supposed to look the way it does. A website can look differently depending on which browser is rendering it.
jere 14y ago
Usually a magazine overlays its title with a very dramatic photo of a person, which makes the person stand out. And usually only a few letters are obscured. Our brains are quite good at filling in the details. Example: http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/fashion/daily/2012/08/09/09-lady-gaga-vogue-cover.o.jpg/a_4x-horizontal.jpg http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/fashion/daily/2012/08/09/09-lady... I'm a lot less impressed by a fricking navigational toolbar that obscures the top of every letter of the logo. What remains are the less recognizable bottom halves of the letters. The T and I (not shown, but also F) look identical for instance. I'll believe that this is intentional, but I think it looks horrible.

keithpeter 14y ago

I get the same on Firefox (aka Iceweasel) 10.0.12 on Debian Wheezy. I thought there was a rendering issue until I read the parent comment.