Wapo Sucks

The Washington Post just released a new web design which bites.

First, it’s visually ugly.  This is subjective although I’m right.  Although it’s hard to see from this snapshot, the font sucks.  And 95% of a newspaper layout is its font.

Second, I have imposed this grid on the new design (23 x 32 squares) and calculated that only 40 squares actually have news in them.  That’s a whopping 5.4% of the page dedicated to actual news, which in this case is just a title: US URGES AMERICANS TO EVACUATE, WARNS OF EXTREMELY HIGH RADIATION.  So basically it’s the most web space ever given to a single tweet. 

Apparently they learned nothing from the research done last time they redesigned their site. 

My guess is someone said they should be like Huffington Post, who pioneered the massive headline approach.  This picture shows actually a small title by HuffPo standards, usually size 360 Font is pretty standard.

At any rate, these days are over.