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Greg Strong wrote on Sat, Sep 2, 2017 02:12 AM UTC:

Regarding the hyphenation, I don't think "Chess Variant" in "The Chess Variant Pages" should be hyphenated, although I must admit I'm not 100% certain.  English has a million tricky grammar nuances, (many of which are now frequently ignored), and it shows a strong grasp of English to even raise the question of hypenating it.

You do hypenate a multi-word adjective - with multi-word being an example :)  But in The Chess Variant Pages, I don't think "chess variant" is technically and adjective that modifies pages, but is simply part of the four-word-long proper noun.

Regarding the logo, I do like the general feel of the old logo, although I've been looking at it so long I might be biased.  It does look a little old-fashioned (and I suddenly can't stop myself from using hyphenated adjectives) but frankly the whole website has a retro look, which I actually like.  Most of the new websites are formatted in a similar way (that I would have a hard time describing) but while it's trendy and "clever" now, their sliding, shifting style makes them less like actual "pages" and are not appealing to me.  Since I can't really describe it, I'll give one random example of a website that I consider both ultra-modern and ultra-crappy: https://iota.org/

I completely agree with H. G., though, that the Chess Utrecht font is not good and at least that aspect of it should change.  That said, I don't dislike Fergus's new logo although I don't think the average person who stumbled onto this site would associate it with Chess.  The way the "variants" is drawn like a shadow of "chess" is definitely a nice touch though.


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