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by existencebox 3186 days ago
It's funny re: that "web design in 4 minutes" link; while the page got "prettier" over the course of the demo, I found it to get progressively less readable. I'll openly admit I have an astigmatism and have been having more and more trouble with pale/small letters, but I had no idea I had gone over the fold into things like high contrast mode being useful for me.

I'm curious as to if that's just my eyesight falling over as I get older, or trends in "modern design", as I still find the original text-on-canvas, 90's garage style of websites to be much more readable to me, as well as containing much less wasted whitespace.

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We don't treat websites like documents anymore. Instead they're interfaces. The old document style is much more readable.