On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Lasse Schuirmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > first, thanks to the designers for putting so much good work into the HIG! > > Some feedback from me: > > Typography > ---------------- > One thing that is missing IMO in the font size discussion is the uglieness > of absolute font sizes. In the "Universal Access" menu you have the "Large > Text" option: if you use absolute font sizes these wont scale to that making > this an accessibility issue. So using something like "font-size: 80%" should > be recommended IMO. > > In addition, to keep the font-size diversity small I'd for now advise to use > 80% for small texts and some other value for large texts. There are two > advantages about this and the 80% is not accidentally: > - The adwaita theme uses 80% for some small texts so we should stick for > this value for consistency. > - Having a large text value makes applications more consistent to each other > anyway. > > On long term it would be nice if the theme would provide some css classes > small-text, large-text. Then we could recommend using those instead of > having our application developers dealing with those issues which should IMO > be solved by the theme.
There's no need to clamor for css here - Pango has always provided markup and attributes to do relative font sizes, like this: normal <span font_size="larger">big</span> <span font_size="smaller">small</span> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
