On 18 March 2015 at 06:40, Andrey Pokhilko <[email protected]> wrote: > I will support Sebb here, my experience says that 80% menu font size is > the best.
So shall we settle on 85%? > (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.] >>>>> >
