[Pydotorg-redesign] Draft HTML for redesign proposal

[Anna Ravenscroft]

On Friday 17 October 2003 04:54, Tim Parkin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After a *huge* discussion about contrasts and fonts, we've come to some
> conclusions and some queries.

<snip>

> Tahoma, Trebuchet, MS Sans Serif and Helvetica were awful. This left
> Lucida Sans and Bitstream Vera Sans. Out of these Bitstream Vera Sans
> won hands down. We had a surprising discovery. On closer inspection we
> discovered that Bitstream Vera Sana was antialiasing at smaller sizes
> (which no other windows fonts we looked at did). This in combination
> with the quality of the font (and it's license) means we would recommend
> using the following order of fonts for the website
>
> "Bitstream Vera Sans", Verdana, "Lucida Sans", Geneva, Helvetica,
> sans-serif
>
> And I'd even go further to suggest that users of the Python site
> download the bitstream vera font if they want to get high quality body
> text.

You've done a great job Tim and I'm really impressed by your responsiveness to 
the community. Thank you! 

Anna Ravenscroft