The design of the site was updated a few weeks ago, bringing the latest incarnation of equivocality.com to version 13. I thought version 12 was going to be the final design, but I’ve realized that things inevitably change in my life, and the site is always ends up being a reflection of those changes. At least it lasted over a year, which is more than I can say for any of my previous designs.
Clean and clear and under control
After going through a period where I felt shattered and began to question everything that was important to me, I knew I had to redefine myself. It made me want to strip everything down, and go back to my ultra-minimalist roots, while borrowing a few much-loved elements from previous designs such as fine dotted lines. All the code has been built from the ground up instead of being based on a previous theme.
Now there’s only one column, with everything centered to keep it all nice and simple. This lets me post very large pictures, which I’ve really been enjoying lately, and something the previous theme had restricted me from doing. The pictures scale nicely though, so people with low-resolution monitors will still be able to see an entire photo without ever having to scroll.
Typography
One of the biggest changes from any of my previous designs is the use of a non-system font for body copy. I wanted to move away from the Helvetica I’ve been using for so long now and give the site a unique feel. I decided on Proxima Nova, which retains humanistic proportions with a somewhat geometric appearance. I’m still frustratingly disappointed by the current state of web typography, so I’ve turned to Typekit to take care of that for me.
The recently transformation of style gave a vividly definition of what is the beauty of simplicity, and the readers include me will eventually enjoy it and learn a lot from it.
Perhaps during the struggled process of rehabilitation the mind of people could gradually changed–value physical and emotional healthy, love friends, have good nutrition, keep productivity,etc. It is good to see that this website reflects true meaning in your personal life.
Admittedly, the style, the function and all the contents are very impressed, I ranked it among my top 10 favourate blogs, the rest are posted by world famous bloggers such as Jeff Atwood , Paul graham and Leo Babauta which I read them religiously.
Thanks very much for the feedback, it’s interesting to see that I’m grouped with people like Atwood, Graham, and Babauta, who are very different writers from myself, not just in style but in subject matter.
AMEN to having large, scaleable pictures. I can never get pictures large or clear enough for my taste, and it’s a joy when I find a site that has them. Particularly your pictures, which are so full of atmosphere, light, nature.… things I like to revel in visually. I personally would crave some hint of background color, but that would make things more difficult for presenting photos, to be sure. And I know that minimalism is SO your thing.
Nice look!
My taste has recently moved to larger photos as well, ones that scale as big as the monitor or browser window. There’s something about them that’s so striking, as if you can fall into them, and all the little details come out very well.
I was considering a black background instead, cause that would have made the pictures pop out more, but the white just seemed to fit better with my current mindset.
Simply beautiful! I have nothing else to add.