Show DN: Pixel Union (pixelunion.net)
8 years ago from Andrew Wilkinson, Publisher of Designer News
8 years ago from Andrew Wilkinson, Publisher of Designer News
Pretty slow to load on mobile, but that design is gorgeous.
big fan of the theme pages and custom services quote form.
not a big fan of the automated carousel with no indicators or controls and low contrast text.
I didn't see the carousel until I read this comment and went back to check.
You already have light, small text on a colored and potentially busy background — consider adding a fix for Safari's flicker-on-opacity-anim. bug. View bug: http://w.nkls.me/dKDE
While well-made, it's largely missing anything enticing. The background of the carousel grabs more attention than the carousel's contents. The theme-grid below is muted and unremarkable. And then where there is color, the large icons use derivative palettes without enough contrast to create focus.
The flickering is a Safari bug and doesn't occur in other browsers. I don't think there's a fix for it either.
I think the design is clean and presents the content well without having to shout, where you expecting something louder?
Not necessarily louder, but something with a differently weighted hierarchy.
As for the text bug, "transform: translateZ(0);" fixes it, but you have to modify font weight to compensate for then-lighter text. Occasionally setting subpixel rendering will fix as well.
Adding a transform to it changes the font rendering. Compensating by changing the font weight seems a bit drastic for a minor bug caused by the browser.
A minor bug affecting all already-difficult-to-read text on the webpage...
This looks damn good.
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