Minimalisme isn't about making things hard to read.<p>Just adding a single inline style makes things easier on the eye (IMHO):<p><pre><code> style="width: 40em; padding-top: 1em; margin: auto"</code></pre>
Here we see an example of people who discovered the web long after high speed internet was commonplace, and they think it's "hip" to force everyone back into the dark ages when visiting their site.<p>That isn't a website, it's a text file. What's worse, it's not served as a plain text file.<p>A real minimalist coffee shop website would be something like a single column with a few photos of the interior of the cafe (which is what customers are going to care about), maybe a photo of a fancy latte in a mug, and some decent sized and centered text with the address. Lots of white space between elements, and responsive for all screen sizes.<p>"Sorry we're not interested in website design services", it says at the bottom of their "website". Well I hate to break it to you guys but you seriously need it. If I were comparing two coffee shops on google maps, I would pick one that shows me photos of the shop over that Too Cool For The Web nonsense.
Minimalist doesn't mean you can't use paragraph tags! And they seem to have wrapped some of the lines but not others, and did so manually.<p>This makes me sad.
I dig the minimal HTML, wish they'd drop the Google Analytics but I can understand why they went with it.<p>I do wish though that they would update to spec-compliant HTML. A character encoding and doctype would make me feel better, paragraph tags would probably go a long way.<p>Still, I strongly dig it.
OK. It's okay for you think the another world's Minimalist website has no value to your coffee shop. It's okay for local people. But if I'm travelling and unluckily see this website in Google result. I'd think it's a scam.