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Re: New LilyPond website


From: Shane Brandes
Subject: Re: New LilyPond website
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:35:56 -0500

It is possible to have a font embedded into the website server side
via css which makes the default font argument null. This is not at all
difficult to achieve and I routinely rely on it to demonstrate fonts
on my website.


On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 7:35 AM, John Roper <address@hidden> wrote:
> I can make the links in the footer brighter and I will look into other fonts
> to use. Arial is the default font  for many websites and it is the fallback
> font for most web browsers.
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2016 7:30 AM, "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >>> One of the major things on the site that make it look antiquated
>> >>> is the LilyPond intro using the text that looks like it came from
>> >>> a server error message.
>> >>
>> >> LOL
>> >
>> > Concise, readable, informative: must be an error.
>>
>> Hehe.  It's very annoying to me that so many sites use extremely thin,
>> gray non-serif fonts!  Designers might me delighted, but such text is
>> *extremely* hard to read on an LCD if the viewing angle is not exactly
>> orthogonal to the LCD plane.
>>
>> Note that I don't insist on a serif script, but the selection of a
>> proper non-serif script is delicate.  In particular, Arial is *very*
>> bad.  We need one where `l' and `I' look distinct.
>>
>> John, here's another minor issue: The white commata between `Català',
>> `Česky', etc. look bad.  I can imagine to replace them with middle
>> dots, without a final stop.  And what about making those dark-gray
>> link entries also a bit brighter?
>>
>>
>>     Werner
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