Re: [PATCH RFC] Documentation: typography refresh

[Vegard Nossum]

On 19/06/2025 06:23, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> At present, kernel documentation uses system serif font for body text.
> Some people, however, objected to it and instead prefer that the
> typography choice must be legible, consistent, and accessible (after
> all, the audience ranges developers peeking into kernel internals to
> ordinary users that skimmed through Documentation/admin-guide/).
>
> To tackle the problem, follow Wikimedia's typography refresh [1].
> For the font choices, instead of using web fonts as in previous
> attempt [2], use:
>
>    * Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times for serif (used in h1 and h2
>      headings)
>    * system font for sans-serif and monospace
>
> This allows for more readability and consistency without sacrificing
> page load times and bandwidth, as the font choices is most likely
> already available on many platforms.

Hi,

Could you share (links to) screenshots of the new look?

I know external links are ephemeral by nature and we prefer to have
stuff archived, but I think it would really help everybody to be able to
see what you see after applying the patches without having to build it
ourselves.

Thanks.


Vegard