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make authority listings less compressed

Open equivalentideas opened this issue 9 years ago • 1 comments

Our public body listings are much more compressed that the alaveteli default. This makes them more scannable without scrolling when you're searching for authorities. But is that change worth the override? I'm not sure, just wanted to note the thought here for later.

screen shot 2015-04-24 at 4 53 58 pm

screen shot 2015-04-24 at 4 54 52 pm

equivalentideas avatar Apr 24 '15 06:04 equivalentideas

Whitespace and differentiating content types improve scanability. More compressed information is not more scannable, and page length doesn't reduce scanability.

So I'd suggest:

  • Increase the whitespace before each authority title
  • Differentiate descriptions from metadata to give the content more shape (e.g. by making the description text darker, giving it more contrast than metadata - by which I mean Requests made, Date added, and Defunct status)

In the screenshot below, I've

  • Added 20px to margin-top of the .bodylisting span.head
  • Removed the font-size: 0.9em from the .bodylisting class
  • To the .bodylisting span.bottomline class, I've added color: #555px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12px though the latter should probably be in em's (maybe)
screen shot 2016-03-16 at 10 27 58 am

brtrx avatar Mar 16 '16 09:03 brtrx