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Many people'd disagree with you about what clutter is, I suspect. Take a site like http://informationarchitects.jp/ http://informationarchitects.jp/. They're a
by adw 17y ago
Many people'd disagree with you about what clutter is, I suspect.
Take a site like http://informationarchitects.jp/ http://informationarchitects.jp/. They're a firm who specialise in news design: unsurprisingly, their site uses rigid typographic hierarchy underpinned by a grid. It feels really uncluttered to me, but it's clearly taken a lot of work to achieve that.
Then take Craigslist, which is the other extreme. There's no graphics at all, but it's an amazingly cluttered layout.
Both Reddit and Hacker News are nearer the Craigslist end of things than the iA one. None are the acme of good web typography. That's fair enough - Reddit, HN and Craigslist are all huge successes in their niches. However, the design decisions (or choice not to make any design decisions) do affect the tone of a place.
- pwmanagerdied 17y agoPerhaps "clutter" wasn't the right word; maybe "crap" would have been a better choice.
- adw 17y agoYeah, I get where you're coming from. I think this is rooted in a false dichotomy (edit: in the original author's post more than anywhere else), though. You could tidy up the typography of Reddit and it'd look nicer, be easier to read, and be less visually noisy without adding a single "Web 2.0" gewgaw. But it'd change the feel of the place. Incidentally, The Elements of Typographic Style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Sty...) is an amazing book; I reckon a bunch of people here would love it.