[pmwiki-users] It's time to change pmwiki default skin!

John Rankin john.rankin at affinity.co.nz
Sun Sep 18 17:44:12 CDT 2011


Make that a width of 35em. My error.

On 19/09/11 10:34 AM, John Rankin wrote:
> On 19/09/11 8:11 AM, Carlos AB wrote:
>> You did put it all together nicely, but a little bit of care with the
>> size and proportions would make it look better.
> In particular, the body text would be more readable if the width were 
> narrower.
> To achieve an average of 60-70 characters per line of text, which I 
> understand is
> optimal (see for example 
> http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability --
> an example of tidy, minimal design, although 17pt Arial?), a width of 
> around 45em
> is more suitable. A too narrow sidebar could be problematic. The page 
> above uses
> a sidebar to body ratio of 1:2. It also has serif headings with sans 
> body. The
> comments are interesting too -- in particular the suggestion to 
> increase the
> inter-line spacing over the default value.
>
> Bringhurst (The Elements of Typographic Style) recommends an average 
> of 66
> characters per line.
>
> JR
>> On 9/18/11, Rogutės Sparnuotos<rogutes at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>> Carlos AB (2011-09-13 22:04):
>>>> Hi Forgeot, List,
>>>>
>>>> I have created a group Called "NewSkinIdeas" and posted an initial 
>>>> idea
>>>> there in
>>>>
>>>> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/NewSkinIdeas/CarlosAB
>>>>
>>>> Feel free to comment and post new ideas.
>>> I found the minimal design of your mock-ups attractive and made a skin:
>>> http://demo.neto.li/pmwiki-carlskin/
>>> http://demo.neto.li/pmwiki-carlskin/pub/skins/carlskin/pmwiki.tmpl
>>> http://demo.neto.li/pmwiki-carlskin/pub/skins/carlskin/pmwiki.css


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