932268 - Avoid "Open Sans Light" in redesign

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 924767

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Design, defect)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I find the light version of Open Sans difficult to read. This is evident in the tab names for the compatibility table, for example, as well as the headings of table columns. Can we try something less thin?

(Note that I'm willing to be overridden on this, but I hope I won't be, because I can't be the only one that finds thin fonts hard to read).

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

I think this is related with the contrast problem that seems to be the reason why chrismills put so many strong in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps

Chrismills: can you confirm that the lack of the contrast is what made you use <strong> a lot on this page?

Habber: I think we need your feedback on that one

Comment 2

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

IIRC, I think it was mainly because the page was first created using a template of David's that had a class of "smaller" on those types of text, making them hard to read. I think I added the <strong> then, to make the text more readable.

But then I removed the "smaller" classes, and forgot to remove the <strong>. 

I have now removed the <strong> - does it look ok?

Comment 3

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Looks awesome to me! :)

Comment 4

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Design called for this and blocks now look good.