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Comment by boomskats | Hacker News Reader

Everything else aside, the design on this site is among the best I've ever seen. Amazing typography, great to read on a phone.

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He wrote the book on it. https://practicaltypography.com/

I think it's very hard to skim for some reason.

With this site you see about 50-100 words on a large mobile screen. On HN you see 2-4x that.

Also, the section breaks and headers and boxes lack obvious rhyme or reason. It scans a tiny bit like a classy version of Time Cube. You keep getting hit with different font sizes and font styles and lines and ribbons and colors and you're not quite sure why.

For me I gave up on reading it almost immediately despite being interested in the topic because the damn typography was too exhausting.

Eh, I think the line height is too cramped and the hyphens make reading on the internet harder to read. Hyphens are good if you're trying to save ink or pages in a novel, but screen real estate is more than free on the internet.

Interesting. For me it was so slow to scroll I had to use archive.ph to read it :-/

This is on a powerful PC with a state-of-the-art graphics card.

That was my first thought as well. Perfect font sizing, clean & elegant design.

Can you elaborate on what makes it so? Changing font sizes, boldness, lines etc...

For me it was the 'magazine' style with proper breaks and editing, formatted for a vertical screen but still reads great on my laptop. The effort in the content, links and emphasis make it feel like journalism I would normally get paywalled on.

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