Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
After ten years I’m working on a redesign of my personal tech blog. I want to look at some other blogs with good modern design. Of course searching for ‘well designed blogs’ or ‘webdesign 2026’ brings up endless marketing listicles. Even after wading through the crap, the advice is focused on advertising and product centric sites, not prose heavy sites with good typography.So my question to you is: What are some of your favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?I don’t mean the content (though that helps too), but rather sites where the actual experience of reading is pleasant. Think: good fonts, sticky headers (or not), well formatted code snippets, and responsive images. Slide in navbars vs inline table of contents.Thanks, - j
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A curation site or tool to help bloggers find design inspiration from text-heavy blogs.
The pain
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Strengths
- Real, specific pain point from a real person in a real community
- Niche audience (technical bloggers) is identifiable and reachable
- Low barrier to MVP, could launch as a simple curated list in a week
- Natural tie-in to design tools and blogging platforms for partnerships
Risks
- Extremely small addressable market, only people actively redesigning blogs right now
- No clear monetization path; hard to charge for a curated list
- Requires ongoing curation to stay valuable; becomes stale quickly without maintenance
- This is a one-time lookup problem, not recurring, user solves it once and leaves
- Could be solved with a single well-written HN comment or a GitHub repo
- High competition from existing design inspiration sites (Dribbble, Awwwards, etc.) even if they're not perfectly targeted
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