I proposed a look similar to that last year, but it didn't pan out. That said, you seem to have found a potentially better font, at least. In any case, a different direction was chosen for the site's look, and we've been building toward that. Starting with a non-monotone logo. I like the reduced-JS optimizations; we would have done some of those had the framework not broken it.

Half of the stuff I can't do is because the web site framework is a disaster. So we're switching to a better one.

That said, we'd love to interview you, and would like to remind everyone that you should use the [url=/contact]contact form[/url] to get in touch with us, as this lets us share emails without putting anyone's private email addresses right on the site for spammer harvesting.

Interdictor wrote:

The examples above remind me a lot of Champions Online's UI, and in my opinion that is not a good thing. Please for the love of god don't use anything remotely like Comic Sans, Astounder or similar "comic-booky" fonts for a primary typeface. It kind of looks cheap and kitschy. The New Website example given in the "What We Do: Project Update" from a few months back looks clean and modern, and is the style you should be going for, in my opinion.

I'm in agreement with Interdictor here. Please avoid the generic Comic Sans-styled font for the new website. It's very bland and honestly is a font style I'm pretty sure even modern comics have abandoned for quite some time now. While its nice to have something that's at least flashy, it should also be more up-to-date by current day standards. I guess the word I'm looking for would be: dynamic.

McJigg wrote:

Comic Sans is for work place memos, greeting cards and e-mails from HR. We can do better.

And [url=https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-switch-comic-sans]CERN presentations[/url] of [url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-comic-sans-higgs-boson]historic discoveries[/url].

Seriously, though, font-wise we're going to be using Oswald a lot more, likely with Open Sans for block text. You can see Oswald in the menu bar and several other places; I migrated some of this site's UI to the new fonts back last year. (Font changes, like color changes, are easy.)

The header and footer bars will be largely unchanged; the biggest change will be the header bar background switching from blue to black. This is done to better integrate with the main elements we're building the front page around (i.e. to keep from clashing with their colors).

I like Oswald... Interesting, readable, but not amateurish.

Shadow Elusive wrote:

Yeah we're not touching comic sans we promise.

I can't put into words how much more comfortable this makes me.

Grimfox wrote:

That's a good plan for April first. Comic Sans everywhere.

Throw in some Hobo and Papyrus and they're good to go!

As long as you don’t screw up the kerning I could be forgiving on font usage.

But you best kern well.

Lin Chiao Feng wrote:

I proposed a look similar to that last year, but it didn't pan out. That said, you seem to have found a potentially better font, at least. In any case, a different direction was chosen for the site's look, and we've been building toward that. Starting with a non-monotone logo. I like the reduced-JS optimizations; we would have done some of those had the framework not broken it.

Half of the stuff I can't do is because the web site framework is a disaster. So we're switching to a better one.

That said, we'd love to interview you, and would like to remind everyone that you should use the [url=/contact]contact form[/url] to get in touch with us, as this lets us share emails without putting anyone's private email addresses right on the site for spammer harvesting.

Regarding the new framework. I assume you're just getting a new framework for Drupal? not a wholly new CMS?