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.
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.