[p2pu-dev] question about readability of text on the site - font color too light?

[Arlton Lowry]

Awesome. Its going to be a bit of a challenge, but the site will feel a lot cleaner and the content with be easier to absorb. 

On Nov 29, 2011, at 11:01 AM, John Britton wrote:

> We've got a slot for that on our upcoming projects, take a look here: https://trello.com/card/board/site-design-guidelines/4ec0f020c137ff072a5d8afa/4ed4e4f8ae2602feb606a88b
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> I totally agree that we need to give some attention to "standard" elements across the site.
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> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Arlton Lowry <arltonlowry at gmail.com> wrote:
> We need to spend some time focusing on the typography of the site. There needs to be a consistent look and feel to all headers, paragraphs, titles, etc. across the site. We also need to go through the CSS and condense it as much as possible.
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> On Nov 29, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Jamie Curle wrote:
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>> Hi, 
>> 
>> Long time no speak from me, busy busy and all that. 
>> 
>> However I couldn't resist this topic : )
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>> Line height, face and colour are the ones to play around with.
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>> I've done a little experiment here >>  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4948426/readability.html
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>> I know there is little change of adopting a serif font on the site, but to me the most readable is
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>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4948426/readability.html#p8
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>> I used to think it was a case of 2/3 with font-size and line-height, but that's not always true. For instance I think the 14/21px sample is fantastic
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>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4948426/readability.html#p6
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>> but the 16px font with the 2/3 line height 
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>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4948426/readability.html#p7
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>> doesn't seem as readable as the 16px font with 32px line height.
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>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4948426/readability.html#p8
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>> Also ( I think I got that from the elements of typographic style ) I try to make sure that the text is such a size so that it has about 60-80 characters in it. This makes going from one line to the next easier.
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>> Line height always seems to do the trick for me.
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>> Just my 2p
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>> Cheers, 
>> 
>> Jamie
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>> On 28 Nov 2011, at 19:45, Arlton Lowry wrote:
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>>> I agree.
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>>> On Nov 28, 2011, at 7:20 AM, Philipp Schmidt wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've been spending a lot of time on the site recently and noticed that reading longer text is quite hard on the eyes.
>>>> 
>>>> Would it make sense to darken the default font color, so there is more contrast between the background and the font? Are there other (better) ways of increasing readability?
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