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All seem nice until I get to see the search results.. which I cannot "read". It's very difficult to read an output that goes 5x boxes horizontally, and each such line goes then vertically on "forever". It's like yellow pages book from the 1990s.

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Yeah, the "magic: the gathering" layout some limitations. I want something that makes good use of a large screen though.

I've got some ideas in the pipe, but haven't had the time to give them enough polish that I'm happy with them.

This is an early draft: https://imgur.com/a/vMVO7CK

Oh I see! It displays good on mobile devices.

The draft looks nice. The text colour is a bit hard to distinguish from the surrounding background, and I don't have any eye conditions.

Yeah, the contrast is one of the things I'm not entirely happy with. The positioning is also a bit off, especially if you resize the window a bit. As stated, needs polish. But I really like the idea of the search engine being a bit more transparent with how it works.

That's much better. would love to use it.

Encouraging to hear. I'm not a big front-end enthusiast so it's useful fuel for slogging through the design process.

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