You can tell it's a personal website because it has personality

Gordon McLean and Case Duckworth had a good back-and-forth about typography and layout. Gordon says you should make your website uncluttered and easy to read. Case says there are reasons why you might not want to do that. Read for yourself: Gordon: Sort your sites out! Case: Your sites are fine! Gordon: Your sites are OK I guess As you can see from my own recent posts, I’m with Gordon. Check out Go big (with serifs) or go home or How to make your blog or forum post hard to read. But I do understand one of Case’s main arguments. A messy, hard-to-read blog not only stands out from the corporate web, it can be a way of taking a stance. Weirdness has more than aesthetic value; it’s also praxis: all deviation from expected corporate norms contributes to a website’s illegibility by the Algorithm. Thus, a “weird” layout is an expression against the commercial web just as much as it is an expression for the author’s own tastes and creativity. That got me thinking about the difference in…