Maybe: redesign website theme

[domdomegg]

The current website is a bit marmite-y: some people love it while others hate it. It would be great to get a design which everyone loves.

It's also quite fiddly to design components that fit in with this theme. Building out a nice theme with a clear design system would help with this. Additionally, I think two things make the current theme difficult to work with:

• The bright blue background makes it very hard to lay text on top in a sensible color. White just about works, but is hard to see at small font sizes or light font weights, massively narrowing our choices of font. When trying to add other styles of text e.g. links, this inevitably always seems to fail (because blue on blue looks bad, and other options aren't great either - plus then we need different rules where we have other colored sections).
• The bright blue background makes it hard to lay other panels on top in a sensisble color. We end up resorting to other bright colors which make stanardising text colouring difficult, and have the same visibility problems as bright blue.
• The fonts we're using are quite non-standard in size. They're also often difficult to read on top of bright colored backgrounds, especially Mr Eaves Sans, due to their detail and sometimes thin parts. They're also weirdly hard to get numbers to align and look sensisble with.
• The fonts we're using under license are limited. They work at the moment, but we have a limited set of styles and we don't have the level of subscription to expand this license I think.
• We make heavy use of center-aligned text. This can make it hard to read as the starts of lines don't match up. Mixing centre aligned and left aligned text looks bad, so a lot of it ends up center aligned.

I think some good elements of a new theme might include:

• A more neutral colored background, for example white, light gray (maybe tinted slightly blue/yellow), very light blue
• Examples of how it looks with left-aligned content
• Updated font choices, probably from Google Fonts

[domdomegg]

If we do want to keep the blue background we could consider a blue hero section and then an overall white background, similar to https://www.mostlyserious.io/ and https://indicius.com/