As you can see I have made some small changes to the design of the home page:
- Changed Fonts: 18px Georgia, 160% line-height.
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For Body Copy. Anything Less Is
A Costly Mistake
- I thinkg Georgia is the most beatiful default font. I thought about using a custom web font but I thinkg Georgia is good enough.
- I think this is the best combination to read a text on the web. I created a simple and stupid greasemonkey userscript to change the font on any page to this style. You can get it here if you also hate reading 12px fonts. If I have time I will create a real Firefox extension which does this better. All existing readability extensions for firefox I found had some problems …
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- Changed color of the navigation bar to black
- I like the black google bar. It lets you focus on the content.
- The latest Ubuntu also has a similar dark bar at the top.
- Added a dark background pattern from subtlepatterns.com/. They have a lot of nice patterns.
- Removed blue colors
- just did not fit…