No. 83 of 98 The Taste Index Edition 01
Taste Score
62
In the serif hero, a handwritten ‘easy’ crosses out ‘hard’. The sections under it are spaced unevenly.
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01Categories
Each category is scored out of 100 and carries the weight shown. How the score works
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Typography
The typefaces and how they pair, the size steps from headline to body text, and the length and spacing of lines.
Weight 20%
69 out of 100
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Colour
How many colours, what the accent marks, and whether text reads against its background.
Weight 12%
75 out of 100
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Layout and spacing
The grid, how edges line up, the gaps between blocks, and what you read first.
Weight 20%
47 out of 100
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Imagery and polish
The images and icons, whether buttons and cards match, and anything broken or cut off.
Weight 15%
55 out of 100
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Distinctiveness
Whether the page looks like its own work or like a template. Originality counts only when it is well made.
Weight 13%
60 out of 100
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Mobile
The phone layout: text size, tap target size, and anything cramped or running off the screen.
Weight 12%
76 out of 100
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Performance
How fast the main content appears, how much the page shifts while it loads, and how heavy it is.
Weight 8%
71 out of 100
02Judge’s notes
The judge works from the screenshots and never learns whose page it is. We edit its notes into plain English.
Strengths
- 01Teal and amber code windows tell the two products apart.
- 02The hero images are code samples, in editor windows.
Improvements
- 01Two stacked nav bars crowd the top of the page.
- 02Code snippets overflow their windows on phones.
03Measured
Read from the desktop page in the browser.
- Typefaces
- Source Sans 3
- Source Serif 4
- Source Code Pro mono
- Consolas mono
Font families that set at least 3% of the text.
- Palette
- #1a1c1f
- #ffffff
- #34373c
- #282a2f
- #d0ed9d
- #7ec699
- #83e4eb
- #cc99cd
The most-used neutrals, then the most-used colours, from text, backgrounds and borders.
- Contrast
97%
of measured text passes WCAG AA
- Largest paint
0.74 s
until the main content appears, on one cold load
- Page weight
2.9 MB
transferred on that load
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“Weights & Biases scored 62 on The Taste Index by @headoftaste”
Corrections
We re-crawl a homepage after a redesign, and remove any company that asks.