To be fair, it seems the site is his personal blog as well [1], well before he started the homonymous company.
It's still a garish design anti-pattern, nonetheless. All this baroque excess of late with gigantic fonts in the name of "space" and "readability" really needs to stop.
Oh I understand better the critique now: yes it is my personal blog (the initial startup website does not exist anymore). I refreshed the design recently (like, 2 weeks ago).
I used http://lamb.cc/typograph/ with a "Le Corbusier" scale to calculate the font size, the paddings and margins etc.
So the size does not come out nowhere, it has been made for readability and as my eyesight decreased, I found the change much welcome… I will try to find a good balance to end up your sufferings ;-)
Nice, thank you for the reference to the typography tool you used [1]; I didn't know about Le Corbusier's proportions.
The discussion in [1] on "vertical tempo" is interesting because I think that is precisely the problem with your site. Your body font size is large but within currently fashionable standards [2] at around 10 words or 60 characters per line; but the headings and subheadings are so huge they are breaking the vertical flow of the page.
On my iPad, for instance, it currently takes me an unreasonably long 27 (!) full screens to scroll down to the end of the article, not counting the header (another full screen) nor the comments section. And often the subheading alone occupies the entire screen. With such huge disparity between body and headings size, it makes little difference whether both sizes come from the same proportional scale or not: the sheer size difference is perceived as out of proportion nonetheless.
Yep you are right for the snark. Still, "valid point" is very subjective. I'll think about it, yet I do not have any improvement in mind to preserve space, breathing and readability.
