On The Verge of a new Brand
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So last week The Verge rebranded itself. I don't regularly read the site's main page, but I do get sent to specific articles by posts elsewhere. Before the brand change I found the articles easy enough to read, with a decent choice of logo, fonts, and layout. (Sample old article.)
Welcome to the new Verge
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A complete redesign of The Verge that marries the best of old-school blogging with a modern news feed experience.
Now the logo has a bunch of chunks taken out of it, which is not a good look in my eyes. Articles use a variety of header colors; these two neon greens are particularly hard on my eyes. The article text is fine, assuming you're ad blocking.
The main page is all black and a mishmash of articles, Twitter posts, and links to other sites. Not that different than before except for the narrow font I find harder to read, especially in black-on-random-color.
They also have a new comment system that they wrote themselves. Its two main features are looking like the pre-photocopying copied pages we used in elementary school and the JavaScript code failing to load comments after the first few.
I'd give this one a
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@Parody said in On The Verge of a new Brand:
Its two main features are looking like the pre-photocopying copied pages we used in elementary school
By the looks of it, I'd have said "mimeograph" rather than the more common (in the UK) Banda machines, aka spirit duplicators.(1)
(1) Noteworthy mainly for the weird smell that very fresh copies tended to have. Mmmm-hmm love those toxic chemicals! (Either a mix of isopropanol and methanol or, later, CFCl3/methanol/ethanol/water/ethylene glycol mono-ethyl ether).
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in On The Verge of a new Brand:
CFCl3
Nice. Not especially toxic, but all those grade-school assignments helped destroy the ozone layer. (Also,
it should be written CCl3F, trichlorofluoromethane, not fluorotrichloromethane.)
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in On The Verge of a new Brand:
@Parody said in On The Verge of a new Brand:
Its two main features are looking like the pre-photocopying copied pages we used in elementary school
By the looks of it, I'd have said "mimeograph" rather than the more common (in the UK) Banda machines, aka spirit duplicators.(1)
Dittos (a US brand of spirit duplicator) was what I think the teachers called them, even if they weren't. They were definitely purple, though!
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@Parody said in On The Verge of a new Brand:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in On The Verge of a new Brand:
@Parody said in On The Verge of a new Brand:
Its two main features are looking like the pre-photocopying copied pages we used in elementary school
By the looks of it, I'd have said "mimeograph" rather than the more common (in the UK) Banda machines, aka spirit duplicators.(1)
Dittos (a US brand of spirit duplicator) was what I think the teachers called them, even if they weren't. They were definitely purple, though!
I'd forgotten that name... boy, does that bring back memories...
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Mimeograph - Wikipedia
