No. 22 of 98 The Taste Index Edition 01
Taste Score
78
An italic blue serif headline opens the page. The dark feature screenshots below are small and dim.
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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%
80 out of 100
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Colour
How many colours, what the accent marks, and whether text reads against its background.
Weight 12%
76 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%
77 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%
77 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%
80 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%
69 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%
91 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
- 01Monospace body text sits under the serif headline.
- 02Crosshair marks sit where the thin grid lines meet.
- 03The hero shows the full editor, code and agent chat.
Improvements
- 01The mid-page feature cards repeat the same dark screenshot box.
- 02Letter spacing in the long monospace paragraphs is too wide.
03Measured
Read from the desktop page in the browser.
- Typefaces
- Writer
- Plex Serif
- Zed Mono mono
Font families that set at least 3% of the text.
- Palette
- #f5f5f3
- #393d45
- #dadde2
- #242529
- #649f57
- #7274a7
- #d3604f
- #3882b7
The most-used neutrals, then the most-used colours, from text, backgrounds and borders.
- Contrast
87%
of measured text passes WCAG AA
- Largest paint
0.40 s
until the main content appears, on one cold load
- Page weight
2.4 MB
transferred on that load
Corrections
We re-crawl a homepage after a redesign, and remove any company that asks.