Comment by vog

13 days ago

Indeed, it's a pity that the author placed so much focus on a cool looking font that they forgot to take basic properties like "good readability" into account. Form should follow function, not the other way around.

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anonymous908213  13 days ago

> Form should follow function, not the other way around.

According to whom? It's their personal website, they're allowed to place value on whatever they want.

  • dxdm  13 days ago

    > According to whom? It's their personal website, they're allowed to place value on whatever they want.

    It's a well-known design principle to not impede the intended function of things by giving them a form that distracts from it. Of course you can deviate from that, especially if you want to make a point of some sort.

    However, I presume they publish their writings so they will be read by others. Making this hard will reduce their audience.

    If they are making this trade-off willingly, good for them, I suppose. But maybe they're so smitten with the style that they do not realize how hard to read it is.

    There's also a point at which the form gets so bad that it starts to disrespect the audience. Again, that can be on purpose, but it might be unintentional.

    This being a personal blog, it's not unreasonable to expect that a main purpose of it is communication. I think it's warranted to draw attention to the fact that its design gets in the way of that goal, big time.