Hi, On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Luca Capello <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there! > > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:46:07 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: >> did i say "thank you" to you for the new planet.d.o. layout already? Thank >> you! > > +1, and not only for planet.d.o ;-)
Much appreciated. >> * broonie finds the rendering of people's names on planet very hard to read. >> (above the individual posts) >> * h01ger agrees with broonie - those used to be more readable >> <Mithrandir> uppercasing people's names doesn't help. >> <broonie> Yeah, uppercase plus fixed width font is probably the most of it. >> <broonie> I hadn't been sure if it was just me or not. I'm working on a version without the huge amount of red, I agree that it might "blind" the reader somewhat. > Please do not uppercase them, even if I am not on Planet I would be a > bit upset if my name would be fully uppercase, given that it is not how > I am called. > > Maybe simply having planet-title using the same font size as > entry-title? > > Thx, bye, > Gismo / Luca This comments interest me quite at bit. Luca, what culture/language do you belong to? At least in Europe and USA it has been the norm to Small caps/Upper case the author name for several hundred years. I'm intrigued that there is a culture/language where this can be considered offensive. For someone interested in typography this is very interesting. Please reply off list. First google hit on the topic <http://www.little-blue-books.com/articles/wrapperStyles.html> Note the Caps on several of the covers. Regards, Kalle -- Kalle Söderman http://www.kalleswork.net gpg 6D87C839 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
