Just as a personal exercise in web typography, I've been using the Stylish extension on Chrome to make some typographical modifications (improvements, IMHO) to D&D Beyond. I initially started this as an endeavor to improve the print styles for my GM, but I thought others, including Curse, might appreciate some of the modifications.
At it's core, it mostly replaces the Roboto family of typefaces with Spectral and Spectral SC and increases line-height and font size to a more readable size. Most recently, I've added a two-column layout for print and prevented blockquotes from breaking across pages.
It's still early in development, but I'm curious what users think of it.
The compendium seems amazing on the print. Some images got messed by the two-column, but for an early development is still impressive. For digital reading maybe my eyes are used to the original style, it seemed kind of odd when I changed, but I don't know to explain it. Maybe if I was a new user a different experience would happen.
The compendium seems amazing on the print. Some images got messed by the two-column, but for an early development is still impressive. For digital reading maybe my eyes are used to the original style, it seemed kind of odd when I changed, but I don't know to explain it. Maybe if I was a new user a different experience would happen.
Good work, thanks!
Yeah, I could see that being a weird adjustment. I could wrap it all in a @media print{} query to apply the changes to print only, but honestly, the font-sizes and line-heights in some areas on screen were bothering me. Serif fonts can improve readability in general such as identifying lowercase l from capital I.
I love the idea, I am just not a fan of the fonts. Some letters have very thin spots like the "s" character. This makes it really stressful on my eyes to read on my monitor. I will admit it is nicer on my laptop where the resolution is less than my 4k monitor.
I will admit, I like the headers more, the font gives it away cooler feel, but the base text font is stressful on my eyes.
Keep up the cool changes I will be keeping an eye out on it.
Just as a personal exercise in web typography, I've been using the Stylish extension on Chrome to make some typographical modifications (improvements, IMHO) to D&D Beyond. I initially started this as an endeavor to improve the print styles for my GM, but I thought others, including Curse, might appreciate some of the modifications.
At it's core, it mostly replaces the Roboto family of typefaces with Spectral and Spectral SC and increases line-height and font size to a more readable size. Most recently, I've added a two-column layout for print and prevented blockquotes from breaking across pages.
It's still early in development, but I'm curious what users think of it.
~ Kristian
Manifest Zone
The compendium seems amazing on the print. Some images got messed by the two-column, but for an early development is still impressive. For digital reading maybe my eyes are used to the original style, it seemed kind of odd when I changed, but I don't know to explain it. Maybe if I was a new user a different experience would happen.
Good work, thanks!
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~ Kristian
Manifest Zone
I love the idea, I am just not a fan of the fonts. Some letters have very thin spots like the "s" character. This makes it really stressful on my eyes to read on my monitor. I will admit it is nicer on my laptop where the resolution is less than my 4k monitor.
I will admit, I like the headers more, the font gives it away cooler feel, but the base text font is stressful on my eyes.
Keep up the cool changes I will be keeping an eye out on it.
~ Kristian
Manifest Zone
Ugh.
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/03/it-is-time-to-get-rid-of-stylish/
~ Kristian
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D&D Beyond FoundersOh, ouch - I've had Stylish installed and used it for several years - I'd totally missed the change of ownership.... thank you for posting this!
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It looks like Stylus is a good alternative:
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/05/16/stylus-is-a-stylish-fork-without-analytics/
~ Kristian
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