Kagi kagi.com
The paid search engine that explains "no ads, no tracking" with hand-drawn dogs, side-by-side result mockups, and an FAQ that starts by asking the question you were already thinking.
The marker
Orange
Ribbon markers in orange — every saved site whose five-swatch palette carries it, read straight off the snapshot.
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Standard Ebooks standardebooks.org
Volunteers taking public-domain texts and re-typesetting them to a professional standard — curly quotes, real em-dashes, quality covers — then giving them away. The site reads like the books: carefully.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art metmuseum.org
The Met's site runs like its Great Hall: video of the Temple of Dendur up top, exhibitions and Van Gogh a scroll below, practical answers — admission, subway lines, hours — exactly where a visitor needs them.
Lichess lichess.org
Free chess, no ads, open source — with tens of thousands playing at any moment. The homepage is a quick-pairing grid and two live boards, and that spareness is the whole philosophy rendered in CSS.
DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com
Privacy explained by a cartoon duck: pastel panels, a browser-comparison checklist, and complicated tracking concepts turned into pond-side illustrations a parent could repeat at dinner.