[Building Sakai] Sakai 10 Font Size Improvement

Wed Jan 15 05:52:34 PST 2014

Are you thinking about something like Responsive Design - 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design ?

-- Neal

> Mustansar Mehmood <mailto:mm3 at rice.edu>
> January 14, 2014 at 4:46 PM
> These are great ideas based on response I read I think here the points
> to take home from this discussion so far.
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> 1-Typography is just one part of the puzzle to improve readability and
> visual appeal and there are going to varied size and resolution of
> screens no matter what(Like always:))
> 2-We need a skin that is somehow(automatically or property/parameter
> settings ) adjusts typography as well as rendering of other HTML
> components such as input boxes etc not just the font size
> 3-Perhaps same Skin should be releases in a few separate versions
> addressing different subset of resolutions/sizes
> Regards,
> Mustansar
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> mark.reilly <mailto:mark.reilly at nyu.edu>
> January 14, 2014 at 4:00 PM
> This is a skin question.
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> I would go with a responsive typography to adjust the base font size in
> relation to your screen size. You don't want to have a huge font size on a
> small screen and have to scroll like crazy.
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> Here's a quick overview.
> http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/10/a-simple-guide-to-responsive-typography/
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> To find an appropriate font-size for your screen size you'll need to 
> use the
> line measure (length). The line measure for body copy is between 50-75
> characters is the standard best practice.
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> Fluid Type
> http://trentwalton.com/2012/06/19/fluid-type/
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> This is a fairly hot topic in web design at the moment os various 
> approaches
> are being used. There are a few new units in CSS that are helping, rem and
> viewport units.
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> Thanks,
> Mark
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> Mark Reilly, PhD
> User Experience Designer
> Academic Technology Services - ITS
> New York University
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> Diego del Blanco Orobitg <mailto:diego.delblanco.sakai at gmail.com>
> January 14, 2014 at 3:29 AM
> And do you need to think that sakai is used all around the world where 
> maybe computers (including desktop screens) are not so updated...
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> Anyway... this is a skin question. So you can change in your 
> institutional skin the fonts if you want. It´s very easy.
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> But I think that should be good to give the user the freedom of select 
> from various skins, one of them can be low resolution skin and then we 
> can have better fonts.  When I was at my previous position we did that 
> for a customer for accessibility needs, we created several skins with 
> high contrast and big fonts and then, the user was able to change the 
> skin.
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> Matthew Jones <mailto:matthew at longsight.com>
> January 13, 2014 at 6:51 PM
> Yea, I agree, I'd also be skeptical at the moment. It still looks like 
> most common resolution in PCs notebooks at present is 1368x768. Only 
> newer (2013) Macbooks and higher end PC's, where you usually have to 
> pay more for the option, currently are higher than this. So probably 
> something like 50% at the most common 1368x768 & 1440x900 and 25% at 
> something higher and 25% lower than this.
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> I can see maybe new computers in 2014 (hopefully) pushing for higher 
> resolutions as people upgrade, but I also think that the mobile/tablet 
> market (where resolution is high but overall size is small) will be 
> gaining in dominance. So I can for sure imagine ~4K on a 7 and 9 inch 
> displays (which are now generally 1920x1200 / 2560x1600). But probably 
> not catching on as fast on larger notebook displays?
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> Something to keep an eye on, and make sure the mobile portal renders 
> and looks nice!
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> David McIntyre <mailto:david.mcintyre at stanford.edu>
> January 13, 2014 at 6:39 PM
> With respect, many of our students, staff, and faculty access Sakai on 
> laptops, which have not quite caught up to 1080p. I don't think the 
> laptop market has quite caught up to that screen resolution just yet.
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> -- 
> David McIntyre
> Stanford University
> Library Technology
> CourseWork QA Lead
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> *From: *"Mustansar Mehmood" <mm3 at rice.edu>
> *To: *"sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org Dev" 
> <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> *Sent: *Monday, January 13, 2014 2:48:32 PM
> *Subject: *[Building Sakai] Sakai 10 Font Size Improvement
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> Hi
> Since 1080P is a ubiquitous size of screens and other higher 
> resolution display are present and on their way(4K). I think it is a 
> good idea to introduce
> fonts that are more suitable than fonts that  are suitable for lower 
> resolutions such as 1200X800 and 768X1024 etc
> Though statistics(http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/best-screen-size/) suggest 
> that
>  Lower resolution displays are in majority but  in my opinion 
> educational institutions and students tend to have relatively modern 
> screens.
> I think Sakai could use larger and higher resolution fonts to enhance 
> readability and aesthetic appeal.
> I have created a Jira ( 
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25538) around this issue but 
> I would like to hear community commentary about the issue.
> Regards,
> Mustansar
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