On 19/09/11 8:11 AM, Carlos AB wrote:
You did put it all together nicely, but a little bit of care with the
size and proportions would make it look better.
In particular, the body text would be more readable if the width were
narrower.
To achieve an average of 60-70 characters per line of text, which I
understand is
optimal (see for example http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability --
an example of tidy, minimal design, although 17pt Arial?), a width of
around 45em
is more suitable. A too narrow sidebar could be problematic. The page
above uses
a sidebar to body ratio of 1:2. It also has serif headings with sans
body. The
comments are interesting too -- in particular the suggestion to increase
the
inter-line spacing over the default value.
Bringhurst (The Elements of Typographic Style) recommends an average of 66
characters per line.
JR
On 9/18/11, Rogutės Sparnuotos<[email protected]> wrote:
Carlos AB (2011-09-13 22:04):
Hi Forgeot, List,
I have created a group Called "NewSkinIdeas" and posted an initial idea
there in
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/NewSkinIdeas/CarlosAB
Feel free to comment and post new ideas.
I found the minimal design of your mock-ups attractive and made a skin:
http://demo.neto.li/pmwiki-carlskin/
http://demo.neto.li/pmwiki-carlskin/pub/skins/carlskin/pmwiki.tmpl
http://demo.neto.li/pmwiki-carlskin/pub/skins/carlskin/pmwiki.css
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