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I assume he meant to underline and used strikethrough instead.

Then again, it could be intentional, looking at the source this style is applied inline instead of in a css file.

Either way, it's a surprise coming from someone with a professed focus on design.

eh. I did it on purpose. I try to do what _I_ think looks different than most. Instead of making those sectional headlines a larger font or underlining them I decided to use strikethrough as I thought the little break from the conventional norm would be noted. Goal achieved, obviously. Sorry I decided to not be a complete sheep in the herd and do things the way EVERYONE ELSE does them. My bads, yo!

Please do not take this as a personal attack but strike-throughs are typically used to denote a change of thought or deleted information. As I was reading your article the context was lost as I was struggling to understand why that type was "deleted" or marked as incorrect. Again, I don't want to sound pretentious but the first thing you learn in design school is that breaking conventions creatively only works if you don't cause confusion. As a creative, I completely understand your desire to do things uniquely but I don't think it worked in this case.

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