New & Different
posted on october 9, 2003, tag: web
I thought it might be worth mentioning that Textism, one of my favorite weblogs, as been redesigned for the first time in forever. I was surprised this morning when I got to Textism's tab in Safari, at first glance thinking I had opened the wrong page.
The new design is simple and 100% fixed-width font. It's like reading a screenplay now, which isn't at all awkward since the content can often feel that way anyway. It's not like Dean Allen needs any additional traffic sent to his site, but what the hell.
Update: Unfortunately, Dean has switched his fonts back to Verdana. He says it's due to everyone complaining about Courier, which is understandable, even though I liked it.
Comments
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zlog on 10/08/2003:
The font may look nice on Mac's but on PC it is too harsh ono th eyes.
Bring back verdana!
pete on 10/09/2003:
Most repro setups replace a missing font with Courier. I couldn't help thinking something was missing when I saw it.
On a slightly different note, where the hells Textpattern?!
p on 10/17/2003:
i agree, it looked way better on my mac than it did on my pc. glad he changed it to something else.