Dear skin designer-developer(s),
Chinese characters have many many more strokes than Roman letters. So the current MonoBook font size at Chinese WP is very hard on the eye.
Almost every single Chinese user who experienced the skin have pointed out that the font size's difficult to read.
Please increase it to at least 11pt so ZH WP is ... minimally readable.
Xiexie,
Menchi
Kaixo! Li Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:36:24 -0700, ZH Wikipedia zh.wikipedia@gmail.com scrijheut:
ZW> Chinese characters have many many more strokes than Roman letters. So ZW> the current MonoBook font size at Chinese WP is very hard on the eye.
That is also the case for Arabic script (that means the following wikipedias: ar, fa, ur, ug), not because of lot of strokes, but because for a given font nominal size, the actual height of the glyphs is smaller on arabic script, that makes it harder to read). Just go to http://ar.wikipedia.org/ for an example, only the ==titles== are easily readable. (look also at the list of "wikipedia in other languages", between "Suomi" and "Euskara" there is "Farsi" in arabic script, see how the actual height of the letters is smaller compared to latin ones).
ZW> Please increase it to at least 11pt so ZH WP is ... minimally readable.
It should probably be done on ja: and ko: too, I suppose.
On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 21:38 +0000, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
Kaixo! Li Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:36:24 -0700, ZH Wikipedia zh.wikipedia@gmail.com scrijheut:
ZW> Chinese characters have many many more strokes than Roman letters. So ZW> the current MonoBook font size at Chinese WP is very hard on the eye.
That is also the case for Arabic script (that means the following wikipedias: ar, fa, ur, ug), not because of lot of strokes, but because for a given font nominal size, the actual height of the glyphs is smaller on arabic script, that makes it harder to read). Just go to http://ar.wikipedia.org/ for an example, only the ==titles== are easily readable. (look also at the list of "wikipedia in other languages", between "Suomi" and "Euskara" there is "Farsi" in arabic script, see how the actual height of the letters is smaller compared to latin ones).
ZW> Please increase it to at least 11pt so ZH WP is ... minimally readable.
It should probably be done on ja: and ko: too, I suppose.
Sysops can drop something like
#globalWrapper { font-size: 129%; }
in MediaWiki:Monobook.css. Default is 123%.
Gabriel Wicke
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