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note for web designers: if you're going to put your promotional images in carousels that flip between images on a timer, start the timer when i scroll to it, not when the page loads.

all the carousels on this page flipped over to the next slide just after i scrolled down to them.

or this: https://shouldiuseacarousel.com/

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Fixed:

> if you're going to put […] carousels, don’t

Also if you are going to create a 360 rotator, you don't need to kill the rotation as soon as the cursor is not on the element.

The font also seems to be optimized for Chinese where the latin letters look strange for Western eyes.

Which localization are you looking at? Because the typeface used on Latin versions of the website is not used on any of the Asian versions I've checked (Korean uses AppleSDGothicNeo, Japanese is Hiragino Sans, for Chinese it's PingFang HK).

The Latin script font they're using – inspector is telling me “NType82Mono” – is a bit quirky but it's not a poor quality font. I think they're trying to go for a LaTeX kind of aesthetic.

Also, for the record: Nothing Technology is based in England.

I'm looking at the German version. To my eye the Latin characters look similar to Latin characters from many Asian fonts, where the shape and spacing between letters seems "bad" to me and presumably(?) to other Westerners. It seems like monospaced serif, which is uncommon in Western fonts.

NType82Mono seems to be their own custom typeface [1]. if it's actually monospace, as the name suggests, i'm guessing it's a case of lazy designers who decided they wanted a monospace version because variable character widths were just too hard to deal with (mostly because that seems like the sort of thing i'd do)

https://www.reddit.com/r/identifythisfont/comments/116xpz6/i...

that website is perfect for making the timing on the carousel way too fast, thus showing you another annoying thing about them.

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