Re: [DOCS] 7.4 official docs : Fonts?

It is *much* more important to have legible black and
white text than it is to introduce colors.

Don't run off track with the colors--it would be a bonus
extra.  Also, wrt colors, it is important to choose
colors in a way that handle color blindness.  I had
a great URL on this that I can't find right now,
but the topic is google-able.

Also, especially since not everyone sees the same
colors, you will *never* agree on syntax colors.
(That is why I inevitably edit my vim syntax files.)

--elein


On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:14:53PM +0000, Guillaume LELARGE wrote:
> Le Jeudi 20 Novembre 2003 16:36, Bruce Momjian a écrit :
> > Michael Glaesemann wrote:
> > > >> As Peter has pointed out, the CSS can handle a lot of it. It doesn't
> > > >> have to be hardcoded into the SGML-to-HTML transformation. One option
> > > >> would be to use colors as well (I'm not talking a rainbow of fruit
> > > >> flavors here :). In particular, I find italics often difficult to read
> > > >> on the web. I'll try to get a few styles worked up by tomorrow that
> > > >
> > > > I think it is the monospace italics that really look bad.
> > >
> > > I'd have to agree with you. Making them a color other than the text
> > > (black) or the links (blue/purple depending on your eyes) would set
> > > them off quite well. Serif fonts at small sizes can also be pretty
> > > nasty, though this isn't an issue with the PostgreSQL docs.
> >
> > If we go with color, making them printable on a non-color printer
> > becomes a problem.
> This is not totaly true.
>
> You can have alternate stylesheets depending on the media : on colorized for
> screen, one black and white for printer. Latest releases of current browers
> (mozilla, ie6) are able to handle these tags :
>   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="2columnspg.css" media="screen"
>     title="TwoColumn">
>   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="printpg.css" media="print">
>
> Adding a title make them available for stylesheet switching in the browser
> (mozilla).
>
>
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