It has the classic signals: Garamond font, use of smallcaps… I’m reminded of Situational Awareness (not to mention my own website or Read The Sequences).
The HTML source is a little curious—unusually regular and minimalist, but also possibly buggy? I was struck by some apparent bugs; for example, there are two Garamond fonts (why?), the first two subtitles are weirdly misaligned with everything else (at least in my Firefox), and I notice by reading the HTML source that the author goes to the trouble of writing div.character-intro class wrappers around each new character introduced, but the only use seems to be to tweak the margin, and it barely does anything (it adds a tiny bit of vertical space).
It doesn’t come off as designed by hand, really, but also not generated by a standard SSG or tool like Hugo or Pandoc, so I wonder if a LLM played a hand in that too.
Yeah, on reflection I’d be willing to bet that the designer had an LLM look at some of the sites you mentioned and then asked it to imitate the style closely, as a core part of the web design.
It has the classic signals: Garamond font, use of smallcaps… I’m reminded of Situational Awareness (not to mention my own website or Read The Sequences).
The HTML source is a little curious—unusually regular and minimalist, but also possibly buggy? I was struck by some apparent bugs; for example, there are two Garamond fonts (why?), the first two subtitles are weirdly misaligned with everything else (at least in my Firefox), and I notice by reading the HTML source that the author goes to the trouble of writing
div.character-introclass wrappers around each new character introduced, but the only use seems to be to tweak the margin, and it barely does anything (it adds a tiny bit of vertical space).It doesn’t come off as designed by hand, really, but also not generated by a standard SSG or tool like Hugo or Pandoc, so I wonder if a LLM played a hand in that too.
Yeah, on reflection I’d be willing to bet that the designer had an LLM look at some of the sites you mentioned and then asked it to imitate the style closely, as a core part of the web design.