Behold, Worm Blossom

The design and vibe over at Worm Blossom feels very fresh and productive: this is nei­ther the bland web of the 2020s, nor is it retro 2000s web kitsch. The layout is … in fact … sorta dif­fi­cult to read, but I for­give it, because I love CSS columns and I think they should be used more often. (I use and abuse them to pro­vide the pag­i­na­tion in my e-book template.)

The little inline piano rolls are my favorite part. The ren­dering is lovely, and the music pro­vides a pleasant sound­track for exploring.

Basically, this is one of those designs that might not totally “work”, but the attempt is so vital and so valiant that it punches through the dimen­sion of merely “working” or “not working” into some other space. We’re never going to bust out of the prison of the mobile-optimized, single-column scroll if we don’t try stuff like this.