customizable font options & headers

[sage]

Title:
customizable font options & headers

Area:
styles

Summary:
It would be very cool if the Modish style's Fonts options were available on all styles. It would also be nice to be able to set decorative color blocks to invisible.

Description:
These things would probably be simple to fix if I knew CSS, but I have no time or talent to learn. Customization menus are yay.

I really enjoy being able to set all the font sizes and styles to what I want them to be. Modish is awesome for this because its Fonts section allows for more than just the base font & size and the exception font & size. It lets me make a header font tiny and entry font huge if I want to. (Header fonts so large they can be read from across the room can be embarrassing when someone's journal is named something NSFW and you're reading in style=mine. Shrinkability is a good thing.)

I like a lot of the other new styles (yay style team!) and I want to use them. But I also really want to be able to alter the header text format to something I like.

Also, headers with a giant decorative block that you can't make invisible really muck with putting header and background images on that style.

OR! If there were a link with code to paste into the Advanced Customization box to do some of these things? That would be lowtech but functional, maybe, assuming it's even possible...which, I don't know because I feel good when I get my html properly nested. Anything beyond that is beyond me.

Thanks for all your effort with this. :)

Poll #1272 customizable font options & headers

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27

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Should be implemented as-is.
16 (59.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (3.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (3.7%)

(I have no opinion)
9 (33.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[zvi]

Yes, we should add the font settings from Modish to other styles.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean about header images you can't get rid of or color blocks you can't get rid of.

If you go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=style and delete the url for the header image in Modish, it doesn't appear. (Ah, I just checked Funky Circles, and its header image won't disappear.)

Yes, we should always let people remove the theme images.

But I'm still confused by what you mean about color blocks you can't get rid of. If there's a color block you can't get rid of, it's probably an error. On the customize page I linked to, you should be able to delete the relevant background color setting, and instead, the color of the element beneath should show. (So, when you remove the color from the heading, the color of the page should show instead.)

What are you getting?

[sage]

Um, let me see if I can describe this right. On Boxes & Borders, the gray box doesn't go away. And on one of the ones with a title background area separate from the page background (basic boxes, possibly?), the color setting for the title box wouldn't stay deleted. It kept defaulting back to white after every save. That was a couple of code pushes ago, though, so maybe that's changed? (Sorry, I don't have time tonight to figure out which one that was, but if I can get it to repeat, I'll reply again with more info.)

Thanks! :)

[zvi]

Hmm, these really sound like errors to me, instead of intentional. I'll send a styles person over to see.

[ninetydegrees]

The header image of Funky Circles is set in http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=misc

If I remove it, it disappears for me.

[zvi]

Can we change it so it goes in the style group, with the rest of the image options?

[ninetydegrees]

I opened a support request about it as soon as I noticed it. :)