RFC: Changing the documentation's font style.

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Fri Apr 12 14:11:47 UTC 2013


On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, Isabell Long wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I sent this idea to the #bsddocs IRC channel a few days ago and no-one
> there objected, but here you go. I'd like to know your opinions on the
> documentation font being changed from serif to sans-serif. This would
> only affect the web-based docs, not the ones being prepared for print.
>
> An example of this is at
> http://tau.devrandom.co.uk/issyl0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ ,
> and a diff of my very simple changes is at
> http://tau.devrandom.co.uk/issyl0/docs_font.diff
>
> In my opinion, it makes a hugely positive difference and modernises
> the look of the documentation set.

Agreed.  Actually, the new version really doesn't look different to me 
because my browser has been set to use sans-serif fonts for most things 
for years.


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