[Patternfly] Reconsidering website text size

[Leslie Hinson]

Hey Jeremy, 

Yeah, I totally understand where you are coming from and believe this has come up in the past. I’ll have to sync up with Robb and other team members to discuss the level of effort that this requires and where it lands on our priority list. I’ll loop back around once I know more. 

Thanks for your feedback, 
Leslie 


> On May 7, 2015, at 9:16 AM, Jeremy Perry <jeperry at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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:
>>> 
>>> 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>
>>> 
>>> 12px, I can accept it.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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].
>>> 
>>> [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>
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On May 7, 2015, at 1:35 AM, Jeremy Perry <jeperry at redhat.com <mailto:jeperry at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> Any other opinions on this? What do you guys think about bumping it up to 14 at least?
>>>> 
>>>> Jeremy
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> [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/>
>>>> 
>>>> 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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