A site refresh with a new logo, new font, and profile page changes. And updates to guides, of course.
As you may have noticed, we have a refreshed look! I’ve simplified the logo and matched the colours to the social media icons in the sidebar for a bit more consistency. The new one is also now in use on our Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube pages as well. A bigger change is the new font. I’ve been on the lookout for a while and finally noticed one I liked on a TV show news website, so here we are. I’l do some further tweaks to the font sizes over the next week or so, as this one is a little more compact, but I’m very pleased with its increased readability and more modern look.
On our coin profile pages, I did change the bullion coin page to a revised layout with text underneath a few months ago. Overall, I think it’s an improvement and so have expanded it to the other pages as well (active coins, completed coins, thematic guides and foils), as well as the homepage at the bottom. Each page now has a title bar, and they all have filters to make navigation easier. Site-wide, the colour of links has changed from blue to gold, which also looks nice.
As for the Coin Series Profiles, many have been updated. Some of the bullion coin profiles have new additions, but we’ll round those up in an article this week along with other new bullion coins that don’t have profiles. That market is as vibrant as ever! Thematic guides have seen additions, and, of course, so has the Active Profiles. As we’ve said before, they’ll be new ones coming, although I think the bullion coin profiles will likely get priority. Our PMC and MDM weeks went well, but are a lot of work and take time away from general release coverage., hence there isn’t a third one this week. They will continue in a couple of weeks time.
Our little resin printer turned up and a test print went well, so you should see some coin photos (our AgAuShoots) next week, and we can start reaching out to more mints for samples. A lot of producers still put out truly awful images, which we’ve never understood, but we have seen a vast improvement over the last eight years since we started. Thanks for the support. We don’t get many donations, but we do really appreciate those that do, so thank you. Have a great week and stay safe.
Mik
Hello Mik,
Very stylish, its always nice to be a bit creative every so often and update an online presence – so, well done in this instance!
Thanks Michael. Got tired of the old look.
Hello Mik, I have read many of your posts the last few years. In my opinion the new font is too compact and has not at all increased readability. Compact fonts are for pocket guides and long gone phone books. There is plenty of space on your website and no need to compact the text. Modern fonts are fine as long as they are not compacted. The golden links do indeed look nice and are easy to read.
I do actually agree to some extent, hence my comment that the font sizes would be tweaked. Thanks for the input, it’s very helpful. I have increased the font size from 17pt to 18pt (it was 17pt on the old font, but it was just a bigger font before), and also the letter spacing from 0.5 to 0.6. Unfortunately, it wont show immediately on posts from the last six months or so as they were individually set for 17pt (site default was 15pt), but I’ve already moved back over to global sizes, so all earlier stuff, and new ones moving forward will be fine. This post has the new size so you can see the difference. I will continue to tweak various H sizes over the next few days.
Really cool Mik. Fresh and modern. Well done.
This new version is much better than the previous one. Without a doubt more pleasing to the eye.