[kde-guidelines] Typography HIG update

[David Edmundson]

>
> The eight to ten words per line or the three to four word per line for all
> caps?

In general. We can limit text to space but not to word length. 8 words
of Chinese will be the same length as one word of German.
Also I'm sure the (former?) alignment pages guidelines said never to do columns?

>
>>
>> >Layouts with dynamic type resizing should be carefully considered
>>
>> Does this whole paragraph mean "don't randomly scale your text to fit
>> spaces"?
>
>
> Haha! Well, yes kinda. I think resizing text to fit spaces *can* be done
> sensibly, as long as the text doesn't get so big/small/heavy/light that it's
> bigger/smaller/heavier/lighter than other text we're relying on to establish
> the visual and information hierarchy. For example, don't resize body text
> till it's bigger than the heading text. Or don't resize the section heading
> text to fit more words until it's smaller than the body text for which it
> provides a heading. Or don't resize text of relatively less importance till
> it's bigger than text that should be relatively more important. Sure, one
> way to solve this by *never* resizing text. But I also don't want to pretend
> that there is never a legitimate reason to re-size text.

OK that was clearer.
On the HIG try to avoid too much design lingo for us developer
noobies, also for many people English isn't a native language.


> Hope this helps answer your questions and thanks for taking the time to
> review and provide feedback,
> Andrew




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