D17906: [kirigami] Do not use light font styles for headings (2/3)

Filip Fila noreply at phabricator.kde.org
Thu Jan 3 16:15:14 GMT 2019


filipf added a comment.


  In D17906#385682 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D17906#385682>, @mart wrote:
  
  > I'm very much against this, I think it looks very bad :/
  
  
  I think the idea to have a light style for big titles is nice and could theoretically work, but in our case unfortunately fails in practice :/
  
  The thing is, even if we didn't have a problem with fonts (btw defaults are not a guaranteed experience either, e.g. Fedora ships Plasma with "Sans") potentially failing, visual hierarchy is still something which doesn't work the best with the old code.
  
  Attaching some screenshots from our main competitors for comparison's sake:
  
  **Notifications (D17905 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D17905>):**
  
  F6522734: photo_2018-12-31_12-59-40.jpg <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6522734>
  
  **App stores:**
  
  - Mac App Store
  
  F6522764: image.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6522764>
  
  F6522766: image.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6522766>
  
  - Windows Store
  
  F6522769: image.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6522769>
  
  F6522740: image.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6522740>
  
  F6522969: image.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6522969>
  
  - GNOME Software:
  
  F6522756: image.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6522756>
  
  F6522758: image.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6522758>
  
  F6522760: image.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6522760>
  
  With the exception of the case of the Windows Store (which does nonetheless manage to achieve some visual hierarchy with different font sizes and colors), others mostly actually have an opposite approach and go the bold/semi-bold route for the more prominent titles, which makes sense - you want to highlight the information contained in them. But the point of this patch is to just make sure the most important information is not made less important or even illegible, which is guaranteed if the labels are "regular" style.

REPOSITORY
  R169 Kirigami

BRANCH
  no-light-headings (branched from master)

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D17906

To: filipf, ngraham, #plasma, #vdg, #frameworks
Cc: abetts, mart, plasma-devel, dkardarakos, apol, davidedmundson, hein
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