Dear Matt, if you like to play with a wiki test case you can find it here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/621606/wiki-testcase.tar.gz
Just change the chicken.css inside /wiki.call-cc.org/ and refresh the pages. Sometimes I find it useful to see the effects on the myriad of pages that the wiki and other domains have. Thanks for help! Best wishes, Arthur 2014-08-29 22:03 GMT-03:00 Matt Gushee <m...@gushee.net>: > Oops, meant to send this to the list ... and this version is slightly > modified. > > Hi, Arthur-- > > I don't like to criticize without suggesting improvements, so I am > playing with the design a bit to see what I can come up with. I'm not > really a designer either, but I occasionally manage to fool people > into thinking I am one. I'll say more later tonight or tomorrow. > > My off-the-cuff answer to your question about whether the line length > should be shortened or the font enlarged is, not necessarily. I think > design is as much about tradeoffs as programming is, maybe more so. > Even in print there is no design that is perfect in every way, and > that's even truer on the web (for reasons that are well understood, > right?). > > -- > Matt > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Arthur Maciel <arthurmac...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Matt and Yaroslav, thanks for your opinions! (more below) > > > >> From: Matt Gushee <m...@gushee.net> > >> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:47:35 -0600 > > > > > >> > >> The current Chicken site (in production) has 116 characters per line. > >> The proposed redesign, with its looser letter spacing (which, by the > >> way, I disagree with, but that's a separate email) will reduce that a > >> bit, but I think it is still over 100. > > > > > > Do you propose reducing width or enlarging font-size? Definitely I'm not > a > > web designer so my proposal is much more an empirical work than a > > theoretically oriented one (although I'm already reading the site you've > > pointed out! Really thanks!). > > > > Feel free to suggest modifications, but I would really appreciate some > > guidance on css code or even patches. I can send the actual css file if > you > > need it. > > > > And what about the increase of the line-height? Please include here why > do > > you don't like it. I'd like to hear it. > > > >> From: Yaroslav Tsarko <eriktsa...@googlemail.com> > >> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:12:40 +0400 > >> > >> > >> But anyway, current wiki design makes me feel uncomfortable. May be we > >> could try with different color background? Instead of current color > (ffba54) > >> should we try some lighter color? For example: fcd294 or fce5c3? They > feel > >> more airy and not so strong. At least they disturb less when reading > text of > >> the wiki. > > > > > > Yaroslav, I also don't like the current background, but I still prefer it > > comparing to the colors you've suggested. Probably we will also need some > > (color) theory to inspire any change. Otherwise we will fall into a > complex > > territory called taste :) > > > > What do you think? > > > > Best wishes, > > Arthur > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > Chicken-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users >
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