Re: New LilyPond website

[John Roper]

In all sans-serif fonts that i's look like l's. Just writing this message, my email client's font (Gmail) is the same way.

On Nov 30, 2016 7:35 AM, "John Roper" <address@hidden> wrote:

I can make the links in the footer brighter and I will look into other fonts to use. Arial is the default font  for many websites and it is the fallback font for most web browsers.

On Nov 30, 2016 7:30 AM, "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden> wrote:

>>> One of the major things on the site that make it look antiquated
>>> is the LilyPond intro using the text that looks like it came from
>>> a server error message.
>>
>> LOL
>
> Concise, readable, informative: must be an error.

Hehe.  It's very annoying to me that so many sites use extremely thin,
gray non-serif fonts!  Designers might me delighted, but such text is
*extremely* hard to read on an LCD if the viewing angle is not exactly
orthogonal to the LCD plane.

Note that I don't insist on a serif script, but the selection of a
proper non-serif script is delicate.  In particular, Arial is *very*
bad.  We need one where `l' and `I' look distinct.

John, here's another minor issue: The white commata between `Català',
`Česky', etc. look bad.  I can imagine to replace them with middle
dots, without a final stop.  And what about making those dark-gray
link entries also a bit brighter?


    Werner