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Comment by alex_doom

You're joking right? It's a nightmare and far from perfect. Reading text is an exercise in self-loathing.

https://foia.navy.mil/foia/webbas02.nsf/(vwwebpage)/home.htm...

In which I can see:

* Text over a lined background. How is that helpful? It's a constant Moiré pattern while you're reading

* Awful leading/line heights.

* Unoptimal character count per line. Best practices is 50-70 depending on font size.

* Tiny type! I have 20/20 vision and there is 11px type I'm trying to read on a 15" laptop.

* Spurious text areas on the right. There's poor organization of text.

* The welcome text is small and lost above the image.

I could go on about the design, but that always subjective.

parent alex_doom 10 years ago

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