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Kudos for the color palette, I absolutely love it!

I noticed you need some help with the typography though, so let this be my first hackerbuddy contribution: http://f.cl.ly/items/0A3o083L2v1O402t1z1x/hacker-buddy-2.png

Sorry for png instead of CSS, I hacked it quickly in inspector, but should be easy to reproduce.

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Wow, thanks Moe! You're right, my typography could definitely be improved - I can't tell you enough how grateful I am for the mockup. I'll get playing with the CSS :)

By the way, I stole the colour palette from Adobe Kuler. For hackers that struggle with design, it's amazing (ColourLovers.com, too)

Full justification doesn't work well on the web, especially for short lines, because the spacing between the words is not consistent and the gaps are too large. Flush left, ragged right looks better. (Also, minus sign isn't a replacement for en dash).

As said, just a quick hack with no claims to perfection, but imho an improvement over the original.

Left-align vs justify might be worth retrying, justify won in my 5-second comparison. You're right about en dash; I left the copy entirely untouched because I didn't want to spend more than a few minutes on the whole thing.

While you're at it, the signup-button could use some love, too...

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