Re: Colours & sizes - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Colours & sizes
Date
Msg-id 200501161647.j0GGlNd05356@candle.pha.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Colours & sizes  (Emily Boyd <emily@tinysofa.org>)
Responses Re: Colours & sizes  (Emily Boyd <emily@tinysofa.org>)
List pgsql-www
Emily Boyd wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
> > OK, I hacked about the stylesheets a bit and came up with this
> > http://pgweb.pgadmin.org/
> >
> > Putting the font at 100% makes it even bigger than the current large
> > size, so I just tweaked it a bit...
>
> The font size doesn't need changing. Larger fonts look less professional
> and are actually *harder* to read for most people (note that 67% of
> survey respondents are happy with the current default).

That's a pretty big generalization.  Are you saying 1% is easier to read
than 100%.  I doubt that.

The fact is that PostgreSQL's web site has a smaller default font than
any other web site I normally visit.

--
  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us
  pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 359-1001
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  13 Roberts Road
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073

pgsql-www by date:

Previous
From: Oleg Bartunov
Date:
Subject: addition to resources page
Next
From: Josh Berkus
Date:
Subject: Re: Building Press Pages for Web site