Create an "easy to read theme"

[LightGuard]

I present to you two images of a site I just read (perhaps you've read it, very good article BTW):

and

I think two things are key here, one of which I know we've touch upon

• Larger font
• smaller content area

I believe most of the sites out there are doing their readers a huge disservice by having huge content areas and smaller fonts. When you see the two images above which looks like it'll be easier and faster to read? If you said the "before" image, you may want to look at teleprompters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Teleprompter_in_use.jpg). So far none of our stylesheets address this need, we should fix it.

[mojavelinux]

Here are some other great references for this effort:

• http://ia.net/blog/100e2r/ - 100% Easy-2-Read Standard
• https://sphinxtheme-readability.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ - Sphinx Readability Theme

[LightGuard]

The readthedocs one is okay, looks like crap on a mobile device though. The first one is nice, but I still think we can do better. 
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On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Dan Allen [email protected]
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Here are some other great references for this effort:

• http://ia.net/blog/100e2r/ - 100% Easy-2-Read Standard

* https://sphinxtheme-readability.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ - Sphinx Readability Theme

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[mojavelinux]

Yeah, the readability needs to be global, not just for the desktop. Though, we can study why they believe it is readable and take whatever lessons we can from it.

I'll also point out a new CSS framework that is focused on mobile first. The interesting thing about this framework is how they handle the table of contents. It's done as a slide in from the side. That could be implemented in Foundation most likely.

• http://cardinalcss.com

In fact, I kind of like their website as a new theme for Asciidoctor.

[LightGuard]

Cardinal is interesting, but by NOT using a preprocessor they're making it harder to reuse, and it doesn't seem like its easy to extend (I only took a quick look) or build upon. However, since it's just CSS, anything they're doing we can do with Foundation. 
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On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Dan Allen [email protected]
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Yeah, the readability needs to be global, not just for the desktop. Though, we can study why they believe it is readable and take whatever lessons we can from it.
I'll also point out a new CSS framework that is focused on mobile first. The interesting thing about this framework is how they handle the table of contents. It's done as a slide in from the side. That could be implemented in Foundation most likely.

• http://cardinalcss.com
  In fact, I kind of like their website as a new theme for Asciidoctor.

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  Create an "easy to read theme" #1 (comment)

[mojavelinux]

I think that the default Asciidoctor stylesheet is now the most readable theme I know how to create atm :) If there are any ideas you have about making it more readable, let's look into it!