Hi all,
I suggest increasing the font-weight in the wiki from 300 to 400. With 300, the font in my Firefox 47 is quite hard to read, especially with longer parts. 400 instead looks much bolder but still good. Interestingly for Chromium it doesn't make a difference. I attached two images showing the difference on my screen.
If nobody disagrees, I would like to ask Paul to implement the changes in the wiki's CSS since I can't do that myself.
Thanks and best, Max
Hi,
On 08/06/2016 03:28 PM, Max Mehl wrote:
I suggest increasing the font-weight in the wiki from 300 to 400. With 300, the font in my Firefox 47 is quite hard to read, especially with longer parts. 400 instead looks much bolder but still good. Interestingly for Chromium it doesn't make a difference. I attached two images showing the difference on my screen.
I can't confirm your issues with the font-weight. On my screen the text looks OK.
Have you installed the required fonts?
Best Regards, Thomas
On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 04:17:20PM +0200, Thomas Doczkal wrote:
Have you installed the required fonts?
That might aid in bug analysis, but ultimatively it should not play much of a role for a web site supposed to be interoperable.
Anyway I have made the experience, that rendering of fonts can be very, very different in different browsers. This is also why I did not consider it worthwile to waste several hundred kilobytes of non-compressible page weight on delivering a web font which, alternatingly, will either be displayed badly or worse. Any snob who cares about fonts will probably have Roboto installed anyway, I hear it is the latest fashion ;-)
On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 01:28:47PM +0000, Max Mehl wrote:
If nobody disagrees, I would like to ask Paul to implement the changes in the wiki's CSS since I can't do that myself.
You can. The theme is available under [1], where you have write access. The repository is not automatically updated on the wiki server, so just ping me for an `svn up`.
[1] https://svn.fsfe.org/external-web/style_wiki.fsfe.org
I remember having played around with the font weight for a while. So better check if an altered weight looks also good with the fallback font (when "Roboto" is commented out) and with monospaced sections. Afaik, headlines use their individual font-weights anyway. [2] should be suitable as a test page.
[2] http://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Wiki/MoinWikiSyntax
This should be in common.css because it applies to all media (e.g. print), not only to screen display.