Redesign of dlang.org

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On Tuesday, 22 April 2014 at 11:36:37 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad 
wrote:
> It annoys me that tried-and-true typographic best practices are 
> constantly and blatantly ignored by web designers.

Yeah, well, but the truth is that there is no solid truths 
because there are many variables: line height, font, display 
acuity, distance to display, reading patterns, age, words etc.

I remember when I was teaching at web design course and was 
trying to find solid research (it was for m.sc. students) for 
design guidelines for screens in general and finding something 
solid was very difficult.

For instance, people don't read web pages inititally. They scan 
them. So making the page easily scannable for interesting phrases 
might be more important than actual reading speed.

For users who are skilled at speed reading you want narrow 
columns so you have vertical movement (as in scientific papers 
and newspapers). For older people you want large fonts and high 
contrast. For high acuity displays you want serifs. It is a big 
problem that too many web-designers are young and don't take 
older and handicapped people into consideration.

Btw, I think the single word per frame app Spritz pretty much 
describes how difficult it is to put down absolute guidlines. I 
have no problem to follow it at 700wps:

http://www.spritzinc.com/