📗 The dated Lucida Grande was the Mac system font a decade ago and used for the docs on Mac (and only Mac). We now use the system font stack, to get a similar result to Linux, Windows, Android and iOS. https://systemfontstack.com
"Remember, this is for addressing how links are styled in the body of a page, the narrative content, where they sit among blocks of unlinked text. Not navigation, not footers, not page controls, etc."
We initially underlined navigational links, but it was a bit much, so removed those. Technical docs have lots of text in code format; we moved the underline down a bit for those so as not to obscure underlines.
To make them more visible, we've added coloured sidebars and text to the "New in version x.y" / "Changed in version x.y" / " Deprecated since version x.y" directives.
Any chance these changes can be retroactively applied to older Python versions docs? When developing libraries, we often have to look specifically for these notes in the docs of multiple Python versions, e.g 3.9 - 3.12.
@hugovk Nice work. I'd say the increased line spacing on the new version (that's what I'm seeing on my Android phone anyway) is also a nice readability improvement.
PS I like the "Rivers I've lived near" in your bio. Mine: Dee (name means "goddess"), Ouse ("water"), Avon ("river"), Mersey ("boundary river"), Vantaa ("place behind a riverbed")
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