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SPCSS Demo: A simple stylesheet for simple text-based websites
Author : susam
Score : 31 points
Date : 2022-02-06 14:01 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (susam.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (susam.github.io)
| riffic wrote:
| (edit: was) showing 404.
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| source: https://github.com/susam/spcss
| kkoncevicius wrote:
| Tangentially related, but I re-iterated the style of my "simple
| text-based website" a few times. During this period I noticed
| that once I find a design that looks slick - it gets too familiar
| after a couple of weeks and then looses it's "charm" and all the
| other sites I read suddenly appear more readable. One such time I
| stumbled upon a very clean website [1] and thought to myself how
| good it looked. After inspecting the style it turned out that it
| only centered the text, reduced the size of the headers, and
| increased the line height; didn't even bother to declare font-
| family as serif or sans. And that's what I ended up using too. It
| gets boring, as all the other styles did, but having it at that
| level of minimalism has its own charms, so I am no longer
| adjusting anything.
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| Another, similar point, is that when the content is good - the
| style get's ignored. As an example, I read these [2] [3] from
| start to finish without distracting myself, and enjoyed the read.
| Didn't even notice that they are in a plain `txt` style, and when
| I did - it wasn't an issue.
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| Basically what I am saying is that people can pay too much
| attention on style, and it gets overrated. At least in my
| opinion.
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| [1]:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20210614170925/https://www.gtf.i...
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| [2]: https://netfuture.org/2001/Nov1501_125.html
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| [3]: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/transint.html
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