[Pydotorg-redesign] Draft HTML for redesign proposal

[Tim Parkin]

Michael:
>> From: Tim Parkin
>> Verdana is actually a bigger font than arial, to this effect, I've
>> modified the font sizing to reflect this.
>> http://pollenation.net/assets/public/python-fonts-arialverdana.gif

>Am I seeing things, or is the Verdana in that sample less tall than the
>Arial? It looks like the widths are about the same, and Verdana is a
wider
>font than Arial, so it would make sense that it's less tall.
No you're right.. I tried to get the fonts the same size (the size I
would use if I used either one) and adjusted the line spacing to be the
same so we could have an equal test of readability. I used the
quantifier that the same amount of content should fit in the same area.
This meant that verdana worked out smaller height. Obviously if I made
the verdana lower case characters the same height as the arial lower
cases, the verdana full character height would be substantially bigger
than arial (by about 13%).

>Both are too small for easy reading on my display--but of course they
would
>end up bigger when rendered at my 120 DPI setting.
I understand that and promise I won't say "IT's AN IMAGE!!" ;-)

Tim