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I'm curious, why do so many pages (like this one) now have huge fonts and lots of empty space? That text is like... 3 times too big.

by okasaki 11y ago

Manishearth 11y ago
I actually want to update our CSS to something better (PRs welcome!) Initially I picked this theme because it looked really nice in Servo, but we support a lot more CSS now and one of the nicer themes should work well too. I know that the older This Week in Rust theme works in Servo (they recently switched to Bootstrap which mostly works, but has some quirks), and I've wanted to switch to that for a while. Never really sat down to do it, perhaps I should do that next.
- okasaki 11y ago
  Just set the font size, line height and margins to sane levels and it'll be fine Here I set font-size to 1em, line-height to 1.2em and margins to 1em: https://i.imgur.com/BXDrg2a.png https://i.imgur.com/BXDrg2a.png => https://i.imgur.com/hqHFNaf.png https://i.imgur.com/hqHFNaf.png
  - caboteria 11y ago
    On behalf of the few over-50's on this site, we find the first example much easier to read.
    - TomasSedovic 11y ago
      I'm just about to hit thirty, but the first example is still _much_ nicer to read for me.
  - ricardobeat 11y ago
    That's a bit too far. Just changing paragraph font-size to 1.2em would be enough: https://monosnap.com/file/2IbdkolMW8nVIF1cGsX75BeiwR5b7k.png https://monosnap.com/file/2IbdkolMW8nVIF1cGsX75BeiwR5b7k.png
- insertnickname 11y ago
  Please don't make the font smaller. It's nice to be able to read text without squinting.
  - okasaki 11y ago
    You have to be kidding me? Their paragraph font size is literally the same as a level 2 heading by default. It hurts my head just looking at it.
BillinghamJ 11y ago
Makes it easier to read.
codezero 11y ago
It looks really good on mobile.
- Manishearth 11y ago
  So the Servo window by default only takes up a quarter of the screen, which makes some sites behave more like mobile sites. I picked this theme because it looked nice on Servo, so it's looking nice on mobile as a consequence :)
geon 11y ago
> 3 times too big I know you exaggerate, but I just tried zooming to 33%, and it's really hard to read, even on my 15 inch retina screen. 75% was nice, though.

I'm curious, why do so many pages (like this one) now have huge fonts and lots of empty space? That text is like... 3 times too big.

by okasaki 11y ago

I'm curious, why do so many pages (like this one) now have huge fonts and lots of empty space? That text is like... 3 times too big.

Manishearth 11y ago

I actually want to update our CSS to something better (PRs welcome!) Initially I picked this theme because it looked really nice in Servo, but we support a lot more CSS now and one of the nicer themes should work well too. I know that the older This Week in Rust theme works in Servo (they recently switched to Bootstrap which mostly works, but has some quirks), and I've wanted to switch to that for a while. Never really sat down to do it, perhaps I should do that next.

okasaki 11y ago
Just set the font size, line height and margins to sane levels and it'll be fine Here I set font-size to 1em, line-height to 1.2em and margins to 1em: https://i.imgur.com/BXDrg2a.png https://i.imgur.com/BXDrg2a.png => https://i.imgur.com/hqHFNaf.png https://i.imgur.com/hqHFNaf.png
- caboteria 11y ago
  On behalf of the few over-50's on this site, we find the first example much easier to read.
  - TomasSedovic 11y ago
    I'm just about to hit thirty, but the first example is still _much_ nicer to read for me.
- ricardobeat 11y ago
  That's a bit too far. Just changing paragraph font-size to 1.2em would be enough: https://monosnap.com/file/2IbdkolMW8nVIF1cGsX75BeiwR5b7k.png https://monosnap.com/file/2IbdkolMW8nVIF1cGsX75BeiwR5b7k.png
insertnickname 11y ago
Please don't make the font smaller. It's nice to be able to read text without squinting.
- okasaki 11y ago
  You have to be kidding me? Their paragraph font size is literally the same as a level 2 heading by default. It hurts my head just looking at it.

BillinghamJ 11y ago

Makes it easier to read.

codezero 11y ago

It looks really good on mobile.

Manishearth 11y ago
So the Servo window by default only takes up a quarter of the screen, which makes some sites behave more like mobile sites. I picked this theme because it looked nice on Servo, so it's looking nice on mobile as a consequence :)

geon 11y ago

> 3 times too big I know you exaggerate, but I just tried zooming to 33%, and it's really hard to read, even on my 15 inch retina screen. 75% was nice, though.