Am 28.08.2014 00:55 schrieb "Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>:
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Lasse Schuirmann
> <lasse schuirmann gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > first, thanks to the designers for putting so much good work into the HIG!
> >
> > Some feedback from me:
> >
> > Typography
> > ----------------
> > One thing that is missing IMO in the font size discussion is the uglieness
> > of absolute font sizes. In the "Universal Access" menu you have the "Large
> > Text" option: if you use absolute font sizes these wont scale to that making
> > this an accessibility issue. So using something like "font-size: 80%" should
> > be recommended IMO.
> >
> > In addition, to keep the font-size diversity small I'd for now advise to use
> > 80% for small texts and some other value for large texts. There are two
> > advantages about this and the 80% is not accidentally:
> > - The adwaita theme uses 80% for some small texts so we should stick for
> > this value for consistency.
> > - Having a large text value makes applications more consistent to each other
> > anyway.
> >
> > On long term it would be nice if the theme would provide some css classes
> > small-text, large-text. Then we could recommend using those instead of
> > having our application developers dealing with those issues which should IMO
> > be solved by the theme.
>
> There's no need to clamor for css here - Pango has always provided
> markup and attributes to do relative font sizes, like this:
>
> normal <span font_size="larger">big</span> <span
> font_size="smaller">small</span>
That's interesting.
The theme uses percentages. I'd assume it allows the designers to more accurately tweak the thing. I'd try to use what the theme provides for consistency. In any case I'd like to recommend a way for devs to scale text relatively.