Another item from Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky: the formatting on the English Language and Usage Stack Exchange:
(#1)
Beige background on the title, conservative, somewhat old-fashioned typeface; English Language and Usage is dull stuff.
About Stack Exchange, from its own site:
Stack Exchange is a fast-growing network of 114 question and answer sites on diverse topics from software programming to cooking to photography and gaming. We build libraries of high-quality questions and answers, focused on the most important topics in each area of expertise. From our core of Q&A, to community blogs and real-time chat, we provide experts with the tools they need to make The Internet a better place.
Compare #1 with the fanciful Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange:
(#2)
and the very crisp Mathematics Stack Exchange:
(#3)
February 23, 2014 at 9:35 am |
I’ve been answering questions there for the last two years; the answers are searchable via the link here:
http://english.stackexchange.com/users/15299/john-lawler?tab=answers&sort=votes
February 23, 2014 at 9:47 am |
Dogged attempts to deal with clueless anxiousness about grammar and usage. Thank you, John.