Hi all
Ok, here's is update2 to the design. Note: I still need to break this
down into individual patches for review but wanted to get feedback on
the aesthetics first.
v1: https://www.openbsd.design/cvs/www/index.html
v2: https://www.openbsd.design/cvs/www2/index.html
What's Change in v2:
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Based on feedback either directly or on the mailing list, I did the
following:
*** Note: I have only focused on the Light Theme for this version ***
- Removed puffy from footer
- Removed all web fonts (just system defaults now)
- Increased the line-height
- Reverted most (but not all) colors back to either
browser defaults or what's on openbsd.org
- Increased font-size (and specified it in 'em')
- Removed the max-width of 840px (now full-width)
- Removed/reverted the black OpenBSD logo back to what's on openbsd.org
For what it's worth, here's my thoughts about the new design:
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Polish: My main concern is that it's not as polished as v1, and that
could
determine future OpenBSD users.
Readability: Readability is significantly worse in v2 vs. v1
- Line Length, by making the line length unlimited in width, it makes it
extremely difficult to read body text. Reason being, your eye needs to
track to the next line. The rule of thumb is, the longer the line length
the bigger the line-heigh needs to be. When the line length can be
unlimited long, it's difficult to set an appropriate line-heigh which
hurts
readability.
- Colors, the more colors that are present, the more distracting a
website
will become. That's ok if it's a marketing website, but a site that's
primarily
documentation - you want to reduce the color palette down to only 2 (3
max)
colors. This is why technical manuals are mostly created in grayscale,
because color very much distracts the eyes and makes it more difficult
to
read body text. I feel like v2 color palette, which are peoples ask to
revert
to the previous color palette causes that. (And I still haven't revert
to
all of the openbsd.org colors)
But that's just my opinion.
Ask: I'm curious to hear from others if v2 is more aligned with your
desire
for the look of the updated site.
-mlp
