I am obsessed with it. Slate design, I love you.
No, not your blocky left menu with the white gaps. Not your flat new German-mens-magazine logo. Not the fact that you wreck yourself the second an ad chooses a weird color scheme. Not the pointlessly alien Search button, poised in your top spot. Not that little cut that gets made into the current homepage feature (I know it’s supposed to be a speech bubble metaphor, but it hurts me. Just make the triangle smaller and it’ll be totally cute, I swear).
NO
I LOVE YOUR STYLESHEET TYPOGRAPHY.
The new Slate design has hands-down-don’t-argue-with-me the fanciest type on the internet, from its ‘kickers’ (the grey all-caps guys) to the black underline ‘neath the maroon Most-Read h3s, to the sexy letterspacing on the article h1s, to the itals on the fancy little “Related in Slate” action at the bottom of most articles.
And that side menu, with the big-box contents pull-over? Fancy. Check the rollovers on that: Pristine little yellow blocks, perfectly padded. And they even tint the headlines a touch of warm grey, giving the effect of a physical highlight. Ladies and gentleman, if you’re going to design a website that serves up as much content and ads as Slate does (and God help you if you do), slate_styles_ff.css should be your Bible.
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