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the design of your website is incredible! a little hard to navigate around however, how did you build the cube animation in the top?

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I think the white text against blue background is a rough choice. On the right monitor and brightness, it's fine; on the wrong one, it's illegible. Text either needs to be thicker or the color schema needs work.

I agree. I like the blueprint theme, but those ultra-thin fonts need to go away. If there is a potential for your font to render with sections being only fractions of pixels thick, you get a very illegible result.

Thank you! Sorry for the difficulty navigating, what did you have a problem with?

The cube animation are six square divs animated with css. Just take a look at the source if you're curious.

I just wanted to see more similar pages and couldn't find any! (Admittedly I hadn't considered there wouldn't be any!) I also like the thin font.

Thank you for the advice about the cube, I will definitely have a look!

Oh gotcha, yea no other pages yet. I did consider the implications of a thin font on readability but it looks great on retina displays. No problem, hope it helps.

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