Design vs. legibility

The Designer is a very pretty looking site that publishes a PDF design magazine.

Unfortunately, the front page of the site is completely illegible. Headings are readable, links just about stand out but the actual text is tiny flesh-coloured type on a flesh-coloured background.

I was genuinely interested in reading the content but my eyeballs started to complain about the inordinate amount of overtime they were being forced to work.

Friday, April 25th, 2003 10:27am

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