Not a huge fan of their blog's redesign.
The combination of the serif font, text-indent on paragraphs and lack of separation between them makes reading it a chore. One of the first times I have needed to use Safari's reader mode out of necessity.
The combination of the serif font, text-indent on paragraphs and lack of separation between them makes reading it a chore. One of the first times I have needed to use Safari's reader mode out of necessity.
But as far as their layout is concerned, I do like the large typography, and don't see any problem with the paragraph spacing and layout. Overall, it's a nice, clean layout.
The biggest downside to this is where sites (e.g. github) try using private-range unicode codepoints for graphical icons, not realizing that users often have other fonts set. I really discourage site authors for hacks and stick to using graphics for icons.
As the blog post is about building a great product with the core competitive advantage being simplicity, this new blog design is a full 180 from the point of their post.