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Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:35:41 +0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Documentation: typography refresh To: Carlos Bilbao , Vegard Nossum , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Documentation Cc: Jonathan Corbet , 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 References: <20250619042318.17325-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com> <75f99fce-affa-4acc-afeb-2a9f70a6d907@oracle.com> <250eb150-ef18-4e62-9791-f2ec4801cd39@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Bagas Sanjaya In-Reply-To: <250eb150-ef18-4e62-9791-f2ec4801cd39@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 6/25/25 05:59, Carlos Bilbao wrote: > I'll be honest -- I was initially skeptical about the value of changing > fonts. But I do see how the updated typography improves readability and > feels friendlier overall. It follows modern web design trends like > Wikipedia’s; but I do wonder if we’re trading off some of the "personality" > of rough/challenging aura that fits kernel dev. Your new version feels a > bit less hacky/unique. Anyway, font preferences are subjective, e.g., I've > seen people run terminals with white backgrounds! > I'm also leaning towards following web trends by this font tweak, though. And yeah, when I first coded my HTML and CSS code in school, my peers would've like to use non-monospace fonts ({sans-}serif) in Windows Notepad without knowing that it was bad idea (as they didn't know that monospace was the norm). > What I’m more concerned about is that if we merge this, someone else might > want to tweak another part of the UX next week simply because it “looks > better” to them. We've to draw a line on what kind of UX changes we’re open > to. From my side: > > Nacked-by: Carlos Bilbao > > Still, I really appreciate the effort you put into this, and I agree that > readability matters, especially for long docs like ours. > Any suggestions without this tweak? Thanks. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara