{"id":718,"date":"2002-06-07T22:40:16","date_gmt":"2002-06-08T05:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/06\/design-rant\/"},"modified":"2002-06-07T22:40:16","modified_gmt":"2002-06-08T05:40:16","slug":"design-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/07\/design-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Design rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourish.com\/\">A writer, a weblog, her opinions: Yourish.com<\/a> does a good and proper rant about reverse text blogs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a really good reason why reverse type is not used in the print industry except as captions, pullquotes, and short bits of text: It is unreadable in the longer form. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has been one of my favorite hobby horses for years: so many website designers seem to strive for unreadable sites. Coming from a typesetting background like Yourish (and yours truly), this is abomination.<P>Strive to set your blog apart with content, not with insane graphics (unless, like Laurence Simon, your insane graphics are part of your charm.)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; A writer, a weblog, her opinions: Yourish.com does a good and proper rant about reverse text blogs: There is a really good reason why reverse type is not used in the print industry except as captions, pullquotes, and short bits of text: It is unreadable in the longer form. This has been one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/07\/design-rant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Design rant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-bA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}