Re: Larger fonts...

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Tom,

You're right - I tried to catch it before it went, but just too late!

To the list - please ignore the message Tom refers to  - it's not too
commercially sensitive, at least.

I probably need more coffee before fielding bug reports in the morning.


Cheers
Pete

Tom Chubb wrote:
> Pete,
> Before you get slated by the list, I'm guessing you meant to send this
> to someone else?
> (It came to me via the PHP-General Mailing List.
>  
> Tom
> 
> 2009/4/8 Peter Ford <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> 
>     Patrick,
> 
>     The reason you think the fonts are too small is that you have
>     (un)zoomed the
>     screen at some point. The proportions of the centre white panel to
>     the side bars
>     is wrong.
>     Measuring your screenshots, and assuming you had a full-screen
>     browser window at
>     1680x1050 resolution (what your monitor does), I work out that the
>     white section
>     of the screen is only around 800 pixels wide - it is defined to be
>     1000 pixels
>     wide at normal magnification. Measuring the icons suggests that your
>     screen is
>     showing them at 42 pixels, while they are supposed to be 56 pixels.
>     Overall,
>     your seeing the whole thing at 80% full size - no wonder the fonts
>     look small!
> 
>     The fonts and icon sizes haven't changed for about a year, and you
>     haven't
>     really complained before.
> 
>     In addition, you are using a pretty large screen - the pages are
>     designed to
>     work on a 1024x768 screen as a minimum. Making the fonts larger would
>     drastically reduce the amount of information displayed vertically -
>     it's already
>     pretty tight on some of the design screens.
> 
>     So, I'll ignore the calls for bigger fonts and icons.
> 
>     The button icons may also look better at full size, but the main
>     problem is that
>     they need to be properly designed. Replacing them with just words is
>     not very
>     good - it makes them all different sizes, which messes up the layout.
>     I could remove the shaded background and see if that helps.
> 
>     Other points I will work on.
> 
>     Cheers
> 
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