On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 12:12:38AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Hi Bagas, > > On 6/18/25 9:23 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > > The reason why serif fonts is used for headings in complement to sans > > serif in text body is to break up visual monotony of docs page by > > creating contrast between headings (as entry point to docs information) > > and text body, which is important considering that kernel docs are > > quite lengthy with many sections. > > It's interesting that mediawiki chose to split the serif and sans serif > usage this way. Newspapers essentially do the opposite: use sans serif > for headlines (mostly, not consistently) and use serif for body text. IMO I found that sans-serif is more pleasant to eye (i.e. lesser strain) than Times New Roman on screen. My htmldocs build now uses Google Sans Display and Roboto Mono, though (as web fonts). > > > Have you read "The Psychology of Computer Programming"? > [https://geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Programming_Psychology.html] > The content is very good but (at least in early editions) it was printed > completely using a sans serif font (probably Helvetica). It's not a > long book and I found the subject very interesting, but it took me > forever to read it because it's (or was, don't know about the later > editions) in sans serif typeface. I hated that part of it. I didn't read it, unfortunately, due to financial constraints. (Oh, and in Indonesia where I live people usually shop things online at Shopee, Tokopedia, and Lazada [my go-to marketplace] instead of Amazon.) > > So I applied this patch and tested it. It works as far as I can tell. > I got tons of sans serif font text instead of serif font text that I > don't care for. (I don't mind that the sidebar text is sans serif.) I keep the headings on sidebar in sans-serif. Also, the body text is darkened (but not completely black) to give contrast between docs body and sidebar. Thanks. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
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