July 17, 2008
We’re a little immoderate about accessibility, and making sure all browsers can render our websites very well is important to us. To this end, we have just improved the legibility and display of the text on GetGNULinux.org and translations.
The contributions come from Simon Pascal Klein, a friendly bézier bender of both hemispheres and freelance designer, who knows these things better than we do.
As a result, we get improved legibility, especially on Windows browsers, a nicer, more coherent hierarchical styling, and a touch of serif that fell into place perfectly. The nitty-gritty of changes can be found in changesets [971], [983] and [984].
Our thanks go to Pascal for all of this!
“Times” isn’t rendered with freetype, and thus without antialiasing, on my Debian system, and probably many other systems. May I suggest giving Times New Roman or Liberation Serif a higher priority than Times ?
The Sans-Serif font doesn’t look any better, I expect it’s set to Helvetica. Liberation Sans, Arial might be better choices as they are always TTF.
You could also just use the serif and sans-serif meta-fonts…
We’re working on it,
https://tracker.gnulinuxmatters.org/ticket/230
and we should have a workable solution this week. In the meantime, the display on “standard Windows” browsers has been distinctly improved.