Change Font (Proposal)

[aghArdeshir]

Consider this an issue

Hi. I wanted to create an issue, but there is no button to create issues.

The problem

I usually browse the web very easily on my desktop, and all good, but with Ardour manual, I always need to zoom in one level on my browser. The font "feels empty" and hard to read both on light and dark theme.

One solution would be increasing font-size, but changing the font is a better solution here.

How it currently looks like

This is how it currently looks like on both light and dark themes:

How it would look like with Roboto

Compare with above

Other options than ROboto?

Here I have prepared a list of most used fonts on Google Fonts with screenshots from all of them on 16px. 16px is the font-size on Ardour's manual website

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto?preview.text=This%20is%20Roboto%20Font

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans?preview.text=This%20is%20Open%20Sans%20Font

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat?preview.text=This%20is%20Montserrat%20Font

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Poppins?preview.text=This%20is%20Poppins%20Font

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato?preview.text=This%20is%20Lato%20Font

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter?preview.text=This%20is%20Inter%20Font

And this is the Junge which we curerntly use. Note that it does not have different font-weights:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Junge?preview.text=This%20is%20Junge%20Font

Give me a green light and I will make this MR ready.

[pauldavisthefirst]

You don't like Roboto. You can use your browser to force the use of a different font. For example in Firefox, this alters the font used to display Wikipedia:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document url-prefix(http://en.wikipedia.org/) {
    #bodyContent {
        font-family: serif;
    }
}

in UserContent.css

We're not going to change the font simply because it's not someone's preference.

[aghArdeshir]

@pauldavisthefirst thanks for the quick response. But as I mentioned, Ardour manual is the only website that I find hard reading. The fonts are thin. I don't have weak eyesight or small screen, because every other website on the internet works just fine for me with the default zoom.

However, understandable, feel free to close this issue. Thanks :heart:

[prokoudine]

Personally, I find the lack of adaptive design a far worse issue.

[ctjdr]

I can only support the impression @aghArdeshir has. I am pretty enthusiastic about Ardour after using it the first time last week -- what a great project. With the goal to understand more about the terminology it uses and features it provides, I went to the manual. My first feelings while reading the manual was: I don't like to read on because the thin font just strains my eyes so much. Switching to dark mode improves readability but it is still bad. So, I went to this project in order to open a bug. Maybe this is not just a matter of someone's preference. But anyway, please consider this comment a contribution from an enthusiastic new Ardour user who appreciates the work of all contributors!