Website accessibility

[valeriyvan]

Have you ever considered to change font/typeset used on your website in documentation and tutorials? It's really hard to read.

[knmcguire]

Ah oke! you are one of the first to mention but good point. What font type would you recommend?

[valeriyvan]

Ah oke! you are one of the first to mention but good point. What font type would you recommend?

I have no idea. I am not expert to recommend fonts.

[knmcguire]

no worries! It already helps to indicate that the font is difficult to read. We are so used to it now that we are hardly noticing it so it is good if somebody speaks up.

We had some talks about changing it up at one point internally, so we can start an investigation to better fonts. In our 3 week cycles we dedicate one week to non-dev company tasks so this would be ideal for something like that.

[knmcguire]

Just an additional question @valeriyvan The text right below the introduction section, above Prerequisites, how do you like the readability of that? It's the same font but just a little thicker

[valeriyvan]

Just an additional question @valeriyvan The text right below the introduction section, above Prerequisites, how do you like the readability of that? It's the same font but just a little thicker

That part is much easyer to read.

[knmcguire]

Alright. The font itself is called Lato and that one is already a readable font, but the issue is the weight of the lines we use. We can up it one weight class but that will make it even to the one below the section title:

old

more weight on body text

If we want to display them as seperate, it needs to be 1 up in weight, but that is more bold, or cursive

Bold

Cursive

This is the font we use for the repo docs with droid sans but we have less options in weight with that one:

repodoc font droid sans

Finding good fonts is difficult 😅 @ataffanel you had opinions about this too right?