Re: GNOME HIG: Feedback Wanted

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Lasse Schuirmann
<lasse schuirmann gmail com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> first, thanks to the designers for putting so much good work into the HIG!
>
> Some feedback from me:
>
> Typography
> ----------------
> One thing that is missing IMO in the font size discussion is the uglieness
> of absolute font sizes. In the "Universal Access" menu you have the "Large
> Text" option: if you use absolute font sizes these wont scale to that making
> this an accessibility issue. So using something like "font-size: 80%" should
> be recommended IMO.
>
> In addition, to keep the font-size diversity small I'd for now advise to use
> 80% for small texts and some other value for large texts. There are two
> advantages about this and the 80% is not accidentally:
> - The adwaita theme uses 80% for some small texts so we should stick for
> this value for consistency.
> - Having a large text value makes applications more consistent to each other
> anyway.
>
> On long term it would be nice if the theme would provide some css classes
> small-text, large-text. Then we could recommend using those instead of
> having our application developers dealing with those issues which should IMO
> be solved by the theme.

There's no need to clamor for css here - Pango has always provided
markup and attributes to do relative font sizes, like this:

normal <span font_size="larger">big</span> <span
font_size="smaller">small</span>