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This is a website I built, and mostly designed:
https://www.mpsbrettonwoods.org/
My disdain for empty space has probably created the opposite problem of things being too cramped. But the audience is monetary economists. The kind of people that read books, and write books.
A book is nothing but a wall of text and it's a design that has endured for hundreds of years. I think as long as a design isn't more dense than a book then it's fine.
I don't think things are too cramped at all and I would prefer even less white space. I don't even like the big title page that makes you have to scroll down to where the content starts. I would rather have the "It is our pleasure ..." start the top left of the page, with a narrower top banner.
I think Gwern probably one of the best designed websites I've ever seen, though I'd be tempted to reduce the font size a bit.
This is the kind of design I'd argue against:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=beck+and+stone&atb=v390-1&ia=web
The throughlink to a search engine is intentional. Please don't direct link.
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I "mostly designed" it. I did operate on concessions to other parties, and things that "look good" that "most website do" are hard to argue against.
Part of my original question is looking for a design group that says "obscene amounts of white space is stupid" because I constantly have to have these arguments.
Gwern's website is closer to my preference.
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