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Q&A Design changes are a-coming!

Edit: fixed. The font face and size make posts too hard to read (and also, I'm now discovering, to compose). The current font face is vertically "squashed"; this is not the Arial or similar that ...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2020-03-18T00:01:23Z (over 4 years ago)
  • The font face and size make posts too hard to read (and also, I'm now discovering, to compose).
  • The current font face is vertically "squashed"; this is not the Arial or similar that we used to have. This face is harder to read, especially when combined with:
  • The body text size is too small compared to other text on the page. If I zoom to get a readable body size, question titles both on the question and on the question page become huge, making the question list hard to use. If I make the question list legible (default 100%), individual questions are too small to read. One level of zoom is, for me, enough to fix the question page -- but also enough to break the question list.
  • Also, on a question page, the links in the right column -- which are by their nature secondary -- are *bigger than* (or maybe the same size as; can't tell) the body text. The body text is the most important thing on the page. It should be set right, and everything else should scale based on that.
  • While most of the new design is a great improvement, the single most important function -- reading (and posting) questions and answers -- is, to me, an accessibility and usability *downgrade*. Fortunately, it should be easy to fix -- restore the original face and bump the body text up by 2px -- or everything else down and I'll zoom, so long as the zoom doesn't break responsiveness like it did yesterday. It'll be easier to change the one value, I think.
  • **Edit:** fixed.
  • The font face and size make posts too hard to read (and also, I'm now discovering, to compose).
  • The current font face is vertically "squashed"; this is not the Arial or similar that we used to have. This face is harder to read, especially when combined with:
  • The body text size is too small compared to other text on the page. If I zoom to get a readable body size, question titles both on the question and on the question page become huge, making the question list hard to use. If I make the question list legible (default 100%), individual questions are too small to read. One level of zoom is, for me, enough to fix the question page -- but also enough to break the question list.
  • Also, on a question page, the links in the right column -- which are by their nature secondary -- are *bigger than* (or maybe the same size as; can't tell) the body text. The body text is the most important thing on the page. It should be set right, and everything else should scale based on that.
  • While most of the new design is a great improvement, the single most important function -- reading (and posting) questions and answers -- is, to me, an accessibility and usability *downgrade*. Fortunately, it should be easy to fix -- restore the original face and bump the body text up by 2px -- or everything else down and I'll zoom, so long as the zoom doesn't break responsiveness like it did yesterday. It'll be easier to change the one value, I think.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2020-03-17T14:43:39Z (over 4 years ago)
The font face and size make posts too hard to read (and also, I'm now discovering, to compose).

The current font face is vertically "squashed"; this is not the Arial or similar that we used to have.  This face is harder to read, especially when combined with:

The body text size is too small compared to other text on the page.  If I zoom to get a readable body size, question titles both on the question and on the question page become huge, making the question list hard to use.  If I make the question list legible (default 100%), individual questions are too small to read.  One level of zoom is, for me, enough to fix the question page -- but also enough to break the question list.

Also, on a question page, the links in the right column -- which are by their nature secondary -- are *bigger than* (or maybe the same size as; can't tell) the body text.  The body text is the most important thing on the page.  It should be set right, and everything else should scale based on that.

While most of the new design is a great improvement, the single most important function -- reading (and posting) questions and answers -- is, to me, an accessibility and usability *downgrade*.  Fortunately, it should be easy to fix -- restore the original face and bump the body text up by 2px -- or everything else down and I'll zoom, so long as the zoom doesn't break responsiveness like it did yesterday.  It'll be easier to change the one value, I think.