I Miss the Old CNet Logo
That is all.
redesignblog is an exercise in
collaborative design education. It is an open discussion of design
principles, which are then applied. Blog
entries document this process. The changelog shows progress.
Comment on posts to discuss the design.
That is all.
One big change, one small.
The big change: I changed the font for the body of posts from Georgia to Verdana. The explanation is that the text block was too dark in Georgia. I think the added weight of the Serifs account for this, but either way Georgia’s a darker font. Verdana has more open counters too. The lighter text “color” makes the text more approachable, but also adds contrast (thus direction) to the page as a whole. Given that Verdana has a much larger x-height than Georgia, I reduced the font size to 12px (from 14px). This increases the leading, also contributing to a lighter feel (though the x-height makes this change minimal, practically speaking.
The small change: I’ve lightened the color of the 1px dashed border between blog content and meta the sidebar. With the change in font serving to differentiate the two, the border need not be so pronounced.
As I’m sure you’ve noticed (unless you’re using a feed-reader), the colors have changed a bit. Have no fear. Just a trial run. What’s there to say? Well, I checked it out with Color Oracle and everything checks out there. The new colors take some emphasis off the auxiliary content (and thus, encourages focus on the blog content).