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lazyload | 5 years ago

I appreciate the no-bs lightweight website sentiment as much as anyone, but I think there's also something to be said about drastically improving readability with some line-height and font styling.

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ubac|5 years ago

I really recommend https://write.as/ for those looking for minimalism with a bit more styling

q3k|5 years ago

FWIW I personally much prefer Bear's style over Write.as. Both from an aesthetic and readability point of view. At least for the landing page.

Everything fits on one screen, the font size is much more bearable, there's no unnecessary columnization or links to other parts of the site.

lazyjones|5 years ago

It looks simple, but isn't technically minimalistic with 77KB .css and loaded fonts. The first page load was actually visibly slow with the fonts repainting in a different typeface.

basch|5 years ago

There's really nothing more minimal than https://telegra.ph

It just gets out of the way.

gnicholas|5 years ago

Ironically, that was founded by a Mr. Baer.

https://write.as/about

Reedx|5 years ago

Coming soon, the http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ equivalent.

discreditable|5 years ago

Then a https://bestmotherfucking.website

unknown|5 years ago

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chadlavi|5 years ago

It's so hard to take a site with serif fonts seriously. It would be worth the 8th css declaration if the author added `font-family: sans-serif;`.

jamil7|5 years ago

I think I'd second this, adding some basic improvements to the typesetting would help a lot and wouldn't cost anything WRT performance.

HermanMartinus|5 years ago

I'm thinking of adding a few small ways the user can adjust it. Maybe a dropdown of classless css frameworks to choose from would be good

qznc|5 years ago

But then there can be a smaller solution and this one is not the minimal one anymore.

MattGaiser|5 years ago

Just change the font to something other than Garamond like Verdana. It is a nice font for paper, but not on websites.

chrismorgan|5 years ago

Georgia is a decent serif that will typically be available.

Or just `font-family: serif` which will most commonly be Times New Roman or similar, but will be whatever we prefer for those few of us that set the default fonts.

chadlavi|5 years ago

Or better yet, `font-family: sans-serif;`

djsumdog|5 years ago

Yea, I hate seeing this front on blogs. It's so difficult to read.

abnry|5 years ago

Yes, styling is a must for me. If I ever were to blog, I'd also require images and latex rendering. But that's about it.

nvr219|5 years ago

As long as it's compatible with browser "Reader modes" I don't care because that's the first thing I tap when I'm reading a blog post anyway.

HermanMartinus|5 years ago

I'm definitely going to add the latex classless CSS pack as an optional.

franciscop|5 years ago

There is style, it's just so small that it's embedded in the <style> tags instead of an external asset.