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Poll: How important are rounded corners in your designs?

By , About.com GuideDecember 27, 2007

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One of the popular (so popular it's almost clichéd) techniques on Web pages these days is to add rounded corners to any boxes that are on the page. The idea is that CSS is boxy, but rounded corners will help smooth out the rough edges.

But rounded corners are either CSS and empty-tag HTML intensive or they require a lot of images and tables or CSS to work. Plus, if you need to get your designs to work in multiple browsers and versions, rounded corners can take a long time to develop. For one site I worked on, I spent 40 hours just getting the rounded corners to work in all the browsers we supported. I'm still not sure that was money well spent, but it wasn't my money...

How important are rounded corners to your designs? If you use them, why are they important? What types of rounded corners do you prefer - images or CSS? Why?

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December 27, 2007 at 10:40 am
(1) Harry says:

I always refer to rounded corners as being a “Candy-Like” appearance. It does look nice when used properly, but too much is visual over-kill.

After all, candy doesn’t stack very well in real life. That same caution should be used when designing a website.

December 27, 2007 at 11:49 am
(2) Delilah Hinman says:

@Harry You make a good point I agree.

Most of the time rounded corners just prove to be more hassle than they are worth so I tend not to bother with them.

*;; Delilah

December 27, 2007 at 5:55 pm
(3) Root says:

irrelevant question for design. Who makes these poles?

Design is determined by function. Round corners, sharp corners, gay corners…it doesn’t matter. As long as you meet design objectives then it’s a good design. Corners have little significance…why do u even have to have a corner? Be free, let the mind soar, fack the corners.

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