Bug#612444: peoples names on planet hard to read
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:46:07 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> did i say "thank you" to you for the new planet.d.o. layout already? Thank
>> you!
>
> +1, and not only for planet.d.o ;-)
Much appreciated.
>> * broonie finds the rendering of people's names on planet very hard to read.
>> (above the individual posts)
>> * h01ger agrees with broonie - those used to be more readable
>> <Mithrandir> uppercasing people's names doesn't help.
>> <broonie> Yeah, uppercase plus fixed width font is probably the most of it.
>> <broonie> I hadn't been sure if it was just me or not.
I'm working on a version without the huge amount of red, I agree that
it might "blind" the reader somewhat.
> Please do not uppercase them, even if I am not on Planet I would be a
> bit upset if my name would be fully uppercase, given that it is not how
> I am called.
>
> Maybe simply having planet-title using the same font size as
> entry-title?
>
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca
This comments interest me quite at bit. Luca, what culture/language do
you belong to? At least in Europe and USA it has been the norm to
Small caps/Upper case the author name for several hundred years. I'm
intrigued that there is a culture/language where this can be
considered offensive. For someone interested in typography this is
very interesting. Please reply off list.
First google hit on the topic
<http://www.little-blue-books.com/articles/wrapperStyles.html>
Note the Caps on several of the covers.
Regards,
Kalle
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Kalle Söderman http://www.kalleswork.net ; gpg 6D87C839
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