[kde-guidelines] Typography HIG update

[Andrew Lake]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:17 PM, David Edmundson wrote:

>
> In general. We can limit text to space but not to word length.


This one is really just a general guide to help qualitatively judge whether
line lengths are too long in the rendered layout. It is pretty standard
visual design guidance for line lengths. It's not meant to be a directive
to implement a strict line length limiting function in code or toss out the
design if any line is a little above or below the guideline. In fact that's
generally true for much of the visual design portions of any HIG. I
loosened up the wording a bit to reflect this as a useful goal instead of a
strict requirement.


> On the HIG try to avoid too much design lingo for us developer
> noobies, also for many people English isn't a native language.
>
>
I'll definitely try to do that. I added some more developer-friendly text
regarding text resizing. Just remember the visual design portion of the HIG
serves both designers and developers alike. So a touch of design lingo is
probably inevitable. :-)

I also take back what I said about Plasma.Title being similar to how a few
other platforms do it or being closer to my ideal. Those platforms provide
access to the fonts by Typographic Category instead of a specific text
widget/component for each category. My personal preference would be for
access to the font like those other platforms or like KGlobalSettings does
it. I just wanted to clear that up. Ok, that's enough of my gum battering
about implementation (I wish I'd just shut my trap sometimes)...

After trying a few things in that third column I decided to keep it simple
and just name the current system fonts without any scaling info. I also
added a note to recommend that developers access those system fonts using
KGlobalSettings or, for Content Titles, by using KTitleWidget or the
Plasma.Title component.

I also changed the title of the 'Color and Contrast' section to say 'Text
Color and Contrast'.

http://userbase.kde.org/User:Andrew/Typography

Thanks again for taking the time to review! Let me know if there are any
remaining issues,
Andrew
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