On 26/09/2021 02:51, Timothy wrote:
I’m a big fan of the shift to a fixed em-based max width. However, I’m not quite
sold on a few of the other changes, for instance the font change. While it does
vary, I must say than in particular I find the default serifed font of browsers
somewhat unattractive. Have you considered instead a sans-serif system font
stack? For example, this is what I used on the homepage:
┌────
│ -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, San Francisco, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica,
Ubuntu, Roboto, Noto, Segoe UI, Arial, sans-serif;
└────
Sorry if it is a false alarm, I do not have enough experience with CSS.
Since "Noto Serif" font exist, is just "Noto" enough to select namely
"Noto Sans"?
Concerning "em" and "rem", I may be wrong, but Chromium on Linux may
apply font settings from desktop theme to <body> element, while "rem"
units are based on <html> element. So using rem for max-width and
leaving font-size to user defaults may result in too narrow or too wide
text column. Unsure if values like "larger" are more "portable" for
font-size of header elements.
Modern browsers support light and dark themes. I can not suggest CSS
snippets for that since I have never played with such selectors yet.
I do not know what is the proper balance of overriding of defaults. I
consider default built-in styles as compatibility mode with old pages.
That is why I do not think that relying on default styles only (even
some users customize them) is a good idea. Absolute font size may be
left as in user preferences.
