[Canvas theme] Styling pages

[bertheyman]

This is a questions about the layout of Canvas pages when using the default Infrastructure theme. If this is not the correct place, I'd be happy to know where the question is best addressed.

Question

I'm a lecturer using Canvas LMS. During lectures, we spend a lot of time in Canvas pages. There's a couple of small changes I'd like to propose that might help to improve readability:

• Text lines can get quite long. Typically, 7–12 words per line is recommended for optimal readability.
• Depending on padding, some titles can be closer to the text above them (see "job overview" in the example below) than the next paragraph below them. Having them closest to their own text helps the text hierarchy and makes it easier to scan. Some colleagues migitate this by adding enters for whitespace, but that makes things messy if those are copy pasted later.

Code Sample

❗️Apart from line length and title padding, the font size is also different in these screenshots.

Example: default styling

Example: styling with more whitespace (maybe even a bit much) and shorter text lines

Additional Details

An example where I personally enjoy the readability / spacing: https://dev.to/devteam/join-our-first-ever-wecoded-challenge-celebrating-underrepresented-voices-in-tech-through-stories-5m5

[matyasf]

Hi!

Thanks for the detailed feedback! InstUI is the design system used by Canvas -- think of it as the bricks that make up the page layout, its up to the different teams working on Canvas itself to come up with the layout. I will find the right team for this feedback and forward it to them.

[bertheyman]

Thanks! I'd love to hear about any updates on this.