linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] Documentation: typography refresh

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Message-ID: <250eb150-ef18-4e62-9791-f2ec4801cd39@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:59:56 -0500
From: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao.osdev@...il.com>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
 Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>,
 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Linux Documentation <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
 Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>, Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>,
 Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@...nel.org>, Avadhut Naik
 <avadhut.naik@....com>, Alex Shi <alexs@...nel.org>,
 Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@...ux.dev>, Dongliang Mu <dzm91@...t.edu.cn>,
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>, David Vernet <void@...ifault.com>,
 Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, James Seo <james@...iv.tech>,
 Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Documentation: typography refresh

Hello,

On 6/22/25 22:41, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 10:58:08AM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could you share (links to) screenshots of the new look?
> These are in a tracker issue on my fork [1].
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/bagasme/linux/issues/1
>

Thanks for the patch and for sharing screenshots, Bagas!

I'll be honest -- I was initially skeptical about the value of changing
fonts. But I do see how the updated typography improves readability and
feels friendlier overall. It follows modern web design trends like
Wikipedia’s; but I do wonder if we’re trading off some of the "personality"
of rough/challenging aura that fits kernel dev. Your new version feels a
bit less hacky/unique. Anyway, font preferences are subjective, e.g., I've
seen people run terminals with white backgrounds!

What I’m more concerned about is that if we merge this, someone else might
want to tweak another part of the UX next week simply because it “looks
better” to them. We've to draw a line on what kind of UX changes we’re open
to. From my side:

Nacked-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@...nel.org>

Still, I really appreciate the effort you put into this, and I agree that
readability matters, especially for long docs like ours.

Thanks,
Carlos