inky:
Via chill:
Back in the mid-90s, when Linux was still at 1.something, website design was a simple exercise that left matters such as font choice up to the user. It was blessedly free of the Tyranny of Typography, the Legacies of Layout, and other controlling influences from the Provinces of Print. Better yet, it was free by design from withering rebuke by aesthetes whose high-minded “taste” made life miserable for both writers and readers. Back then the Web was meant to be maximally usable and minimally controlled by Authorities who knew more about what you need than you do. That was the Idea, and it stuck. For about two years.
Now it’s all but forgotten. The Web is overrun by “design” out the wazoo, made worse by SEO and other forms of Google-gaming greed.
holy hell, this article is so spot on. I agree with everything stated here, and have for the past 12+ years…
