I will support Sebb here, my experience says that 80% menu font size is the best.
(Although I would totally rework the whole project website to be more modern, Bootstrap-based etc). Andrey Pokhilko On 03/17/2015 11:47 PM, sebb wrote: > On 17 March 2015 at 05:55, Felix Schumacher > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Am 17. März 2015 02:05:45 MEZ, schrieb sebb <[email protected]>: >>> On 16 March 2015 at 20:56, Felix Schumacher >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Am 14.03.2015 um 16:35 schrieb sebb: >>>>> I have created some quick test sites to show how the JMeter index >>> page >>>>> looks with various different menu font sizes. >>>>> >>>>> http://jmeter.apache.org/ - original, i.e. 100% >>>>> >>>>> http://people.apache.org/~sebb/jmeter90/ - 90% >>>>> http://people.apache.org/~sebb/jmeter85/ - 85% >>>>> http://people.apache.org/~sebb/jmeter80/ - 80% >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On my desktop, the 80% size is perhaps starting to get a bit too >>> small >>>>> in comparison with the body text, but 100% is definitely too big. >>>> In my version on p.a.o/~fschumacher/jmeter I already set the menu >>> font to >>>> 90%. >>>> >>>> What do you want with the smaller versions? In my tests with >>> ~1300x800 we >>>> only get a line or two more. That could be achieved with less gaps >>> between >>>> the boxes also. >>> It's partly to improve the balance between the sizes so the menu does >>> not overpower the body text. >>> >>> Also it allows the menu to be narrower leaving more room for body text >>> on smaller screens. >>> >>> On revisiting the 90% examples I still think that is a bit too big >>> compared with the body text. >> In my eyes making the menu text smaller is too small. Maybe I have bad sight. > The point is that at 90% the menu text still looks bigger than the body text. > > If you can read the body text, then you should be able to read the menu text. > > Or maybe the menu text font is not as readable as it should be. > >>>> We don't have to have boxes around the menu items it was just an >>> example. >>>> We could even put the menu as a flat one to the top of the page (can >>> be seen >>>> in my version, if you use a resolution from 600 to 1000 pixel wide. >>> That works well for narrower screens; I'm not sure I like it for wider >>> screens as one cannot see the second level contents at a glance. >> That is why at 1000px (can be adjusted in the media query) the whole menu is >> again shown on the left hand side. >> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It's much the same on a Hudl2 tablet (landscape mode). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> If the menu text size can be reduced, then the layout can be >>> adjusted >>>>> to give more space to the body text. I have not done that in the >>>>> samples. >>>> If you mean to widen the main text, then I like to point out, that >>> wider >>>> text lines tend to be harder to read. That is the reason, why I put a >>>> max-width of 60em. We could probably add a few em's, if you like. But >>> not >>>> too much (in my eyes). >>> It would help if the design decisions were documented in the CSS file >>> as comments. >> I will put in a few comments. >> >> Felix >>>> Regards >>>> Felix >>>> >>>>> [Note: the sites only have the index page; I did not copy the other >>>>> pages.] >>>>
