Discussion for possible improvements to the homepage
Discussion for possible improvements to the homepage
Hey LemmyRS,
I decided to try and change the style of the website to make it as accessible and appealing as I could through dev tools (inspect element).
Here are my results
Current:
After changing:
I thought this would help foster discussion on how we can improve this instance to look both appealing and accessible for supporting the most users for our growing community!
Let me know what you think!
I really like the darker colors. But I don't think it's possible to change the styles of this particular instance, it would have to be implemented in
lemmy-ui(and then be available to all lemmy instances).And note that capitalized text isn't particularly accessible. In fact, it is harder to read than regular text, because we have a lot more practice reading regular text than capitalized text.
and note that capitalized text isn't particularly accessible
Yeah admittedly my "sense" in design has a ways to go. After my exams I'm hoping to read "Don't let me think Twice", which is apparently a really good book for UI design. Hopefully maybe i can bring in some of the good concepts from there to Lemmy too
In the UK, a design committee found that they shouldn't use all-caps on road signage (the norm at the time) because it couldn't be read at a glance
They also designed their own font, you might have seen it:
Do you know if communities can choose their own custom CSS?
If that were possible I would disable it, same as I did on Reddit. I want to be the one to customize the theme to my liking consistently across all communities I view, not to the liking of each individual community. Maybe what is missing are:
- Improve the default themes
- Custom CSS saved along with your user profile
I'm pretty sure individual lemmy instances can host their own themese, see the docs. Though notably I have never done it before, so not super sure the difficulty
one of the best features of (old) reddit was the ease of customizing a communities css, and the way you could make each community you moderate its own and feel like a seperate, unique place to be
I hope Lemmy improves on this front soon, having to fiddle with files on the backend or make pull requests to the application proper introduces a lot of friction. (not to mention I find the default theming kinda mediocre)
The bolder text looks great!
Thank you! I was trying to distinguish title-like elements from regular text using a heavier font-weight. I also didn't like how the Rust logo was hard to see, so I gave it a white background. I was wondering if I could somehow contribute to the website in any way.
Any help would be appreciated!
This should help you get started:
- There's the umbrella: https://github.com/LemmyNet
- Backend: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
- Front-end: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui