Teaching Page

A page that teaches is elegant when almost nothing on it is asking for attention. Everything here follows from one idea.

Contrast is a budget

Borders, colours, weights and sizes all spend contrast to say this is different. Most pages overspend: every card gets a border, every series gets a colour, every heading gets a size. Nothing stands out, and the reader experiences that as density.

Spend almost nothing on structure. Then the little you do spend lands, and the page can direct attention instead of competing for it.

Every rule below is an application of that. When a case is not covered, ask what the addition buys and what it spends.

Knowledge or skill