John, I appreciate you bringing your expertise to LilyPond.
I'm really glad you have decided to work on trying to improve the CSS, rather than moving the website to WordPress. I would be strongly against a move to any platform that would not have the website fully created by an automated script that is part of our main git repository. Having effective automated tools is what allows LilyPond's website to be as good as it is, because we have not had consistent web development effort through time. I prefer your new website to the old website. It looks cleaner and less cluttered. I think that is an improvement. I hope you'll press forward with cleaning up the look of our site and making it more responsive. I am somewhat conflicted with serif vs. sans-serif. For items that are not associated with music, I have no problems with the sans-serif font. But I feel that the Emmentaler music font goes much better with serif fonts than with sans-serif fonts, so I find it a bit jarring when the sans-serif font is closely integrated with music. That said, I'm neither a graphic designer nor a typographer, so my opinion may be somewhat unlearned. But when I have looked for effective research on serif vs. sans, I have never found any research that demonstrated functional superiority for one over the other. For example, see http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-sans-serif-typef aces/ As far as I can see, there is no empirical data that sans-serif typefaces are better. There is one widely-quoted but also widely-disparaged empirical study (Wheildon) that showed serif was better for reading comprehension. Hence, there is no definitive proof that either serif or sans-serif is better. So it comes down to personal choice. I don't feel strongly one way or another about the font choice. But I do feel strongly that we shouldn't use somebody's opinion as an authoritative answer to the question. It's just an opinion, unless there is some kind of empirical evidence backing it up. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
