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Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from archie.me ([103.124.138.155]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 41be03b00d2f7-b34e31bea22sm230934a12.38.2025.06.26.17.20.05 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by archie.me (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EF60C4207D0B; Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:20:01 +0700 (WIB) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:20:01 +0700 From: Bagas Sanjaya To: Jonathan Corbet , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Documentation Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Federico Vaga , Akira Yokosawa , Carlos Bilbao , Avadhut Naik , Alex Shi , Yanteng Si , Dongliang Mu , Thomas Gleixner , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Stanislav Fomichev , David Vernet , Miguel Ojeda , James Seo , Daniel Vetter Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Documentation: typography refresh Message-ID: References: <20250619042318.17325-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com> <87wm8z8xs7.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="n2Nz9B8Ft9sZeJJ8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wm8z8xs7.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> --n2Nz9B8Ft9sZeJJ8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 12:46:16PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Bagas Sanjaya writes: >=20 > > At present, kernel documentation uses system serif font for body text. > > Some people, however, objected to it and instead prefer that the > > typography choice must be legible, consistent, and accessible (after > > all, the audience ranges developers peeking into kernel internals to > > ordinary users that skimmed through Documentation/admin-guide/). >=20 > So I have not seen the objections from "some people"; can you point to > them, please? None really but I feel that sans-serif looks aesthetically more pleasant (to my eyes) on screen than bare Times New Roman. >=20 > > To tackle the problem, follow Wikimedia's typography refresh [1]. > > For the font choices, instead of using web fonts as in previous > > attempt [2], use: > > > > * Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times for serif (used in h1 and h2 > > headings) > > * system font for sans-serif and monospace > > > > This allows for more readability and consistency without sacrificing > > page load times and bandwidth, as the font choices is most likely > > already available on many platforms. >=20 > I am open to style changes to make the docs more readable, but I am far > from convinced that this is it. Mixing font styles in that way will not > be universally popular, the claim of "more readability" is > unsubstantiated, and "consistency" seems out of place when you're making > the fonts deliberately inconsistent...? Because I don't have anything else to say in my mind as ideas when writing this RFC. Thanks. --=20 An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara --n2Nz9B8Ft9sZeJJ8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQSSYQ6Cy7oyFNCHrUH2uYlJVVFOowUCaF3jrQAKCRD2uYlJVVFO o7dOAQCtMP/tRlf6i5sdRHW7Dg8T3Xw1LbXap5cyGYX4DiiMGQD+PcHawpD1JGxQ a4ISmyWG33/Yrnfg+8pxT4t9CZg1kgM= =iqx/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n2Nz9B8Ft9sZeJJ8--