[Patternfly] Reconsidering website text size

[Jeremy Perry]

Ok - to be clear, I’m only talking about the website, not UIs built with PatternFly. I see these as separate use cases with potentially different appropriate solutions.


Jeremy



> On May 7, 2015, at 3:02 AM, June Zhang <junzhang at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On May 7, 2015, at 2:45 PM, June Zhang <junzhang at redhat.com <mailto:junzhang at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>> About the font size, there are two issues in github.
>> https://github.com/patternfly/patternfly/issues/3 <https://github.com/patternfly/patternfly/issues/3>
>> https://github.com/patternfly/patternfly/issues/31 <https://github.com/patternfly/patternfly/issues/31>
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>> 12px, I can accept it.
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> I also think 12px is not perfect, but if we want to show a lot of data, and user feel comfortable.
> 12px can be accepted.
> As now, in Errata prototype, we are also trying to use 13px for the table list. just for a pilot.
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>> In my part projects, we are using 12px as normal and bigger size as the second assist size.
>> For example, new package wrangler [1] prototype and new Errata tool prototype [2].
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>> [1]http://ucd.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/project/pkgwrangler/v2.0/html/ <http://ucd.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/project/pkgwrangler/v2.0/html/>
>> [2]http://ucd.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/project/Errata-Tool/tests/basic.html <http://ucd.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/project/Errata-Tool/tests/basic.html>
>> http://ucd.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/project/Errata-Tool/tests/new_advisory.html <http://ucd.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/project/Errata-Tool/tests/new_advisory.html>
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>>> On May 7, 2015, at 1:35 AM, Jeremy Perry <jeperry at redhat.com <mailto:jeperry at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>>> Whenever I look at a page on patternfly.org <http://patternfly.org/> I am struck by how small the copy is.12px seems to be a bit too small for comfortable content reading nowadays [1]. I understand the site itself uses patternfly styles which were designed for app interfaces, but to me this size feels small and quiet when used for body copy.
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>>> Any other opinions on this? What do you guys think about bumping it up to 14 at least?
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>>> Jeremy
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>>> [1] http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/17/typographic-design-patterns-practices-case-study-2013/ <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/17/typographic-design-patterns-practices-case-study-2013/>
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>>> The norm in web copy seems to be 14 or 16pt, and this may be as much a trend as it is a response to higher density displays. In general usage, I have a hard time finding sites using less than 14pt.
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