# Warning warning warning! Theme change coming! **URL:** \ **Category:** meta\ **Created:** [November 28, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090 "2015-11-28T17:39:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/1 "2015-11-28T17:39:03Z")
I’ll probably spend a few hours this afternoon changing the forum’s theme around a bit because I’m bored with how it is now. Will likely be cribbing a few things from the [CircleCI Discourse forum](https://discuss.circleci.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/2 "2015-11-28T23:05:33Z")
IT HAS HAPPENED. Report any weirdness or stuff that’s broken! (Note: “The typeface doesn’t look right” probably means you’re using Chrome on Windows 7 or possibly IE10 on Windows 7, or older, and if that’s the case I feel bad for you but you should consider using a browser/OS combo that correctly renders type!) ---
**Author:** ![Nabiki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/nabiki/32/935_2.png) [@Nabiki](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Nabiki)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/3 "2015-11-29T01:54:03Z")
No weirdness to report. It certainly looks different, but I think I like it. ---
**Author:** ![GITM](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/gitm/32/540_2.png) [@GITM](https://cog.discourse.group/u/GITM)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/4 "2015-11-29T02:28:20Z")
Helvetica, about 15-16 point is what I’m supposed to be seeing? (Safari 9.0.1 on OS X 10.10.5 for the record.) ---
**Author:** ![ClockWorkXon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/clockworkxon/32/593_2.png) [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/5 "2015-11-29T02:54:29Z")
Too much white space on the main page, before and after each topic title. I don’t think we really need a half inch, vertical, for each topic. ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 4:55am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/6 "2015-11-29T04:55:46Z")
Yeah, @ClockWorkXon, agree on the whitespace. Smooshed it down to the default. @GITM - typeface should be light Helvetica, yeah. The other option was Proxima Nova, which I have available to serve via `font-face`, but after going back and forth I think this looks better. ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/7 "2015-11-30T13:24:17Z")
Can we put the notifications to a colour I’m not blind to? 😛 Greens and blues are fine, reds are a muddy grey to me. ---
**Author:** ![RoadRunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/roadrunner/32/63_2.png) [@RoadRunner](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RoadRunner)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/8 "2015-11-30T20:33:16Z")
![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/cog/original/1X/a8884c81ea937ae39f9f6352fb38a3034ab20a15.JPG) I saw this just now in Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![moufassa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/moufassa/32/41_2.png) [@moufassa](https://cog.discourse.group/u/moufassa)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/9 "2015-12-01T02:54:30Z")
I like this much better. (The font that was used previously had a quirk where **bold** typeface was a few pixels taller than normal, and it gave me the irrits.) ---
**Author:** ![balance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/balance/32/1888_2.png) [@balance](https://cog.discourse.group/u/balance)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/10 "2015-12-01T14:36:26Z")
Fonts look a bit cleaner for me, at least. ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/11 "2015-12-01T16:32:49Z")
> [@moufassa](#): > > (The font that was used previously had a quirk where **bold** typeface was a few pixels taller than normal, and it gave me the irrits.) Rather like the Ars website at the minute when viewed in Safari, anything in italics breaks line conformity… ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/cog/original/1X/530c3ef45f5ecfc613c805781111f5813d652ab0.png) It wouldn’t be so bad if it at least uniformly broke line conformity but it distorts more the further down you go! ---
**Author:** ![moufassa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/moufassa/32/41_2.png) [@moufassa](https://cog.discourse.group/u/moufassa)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/12 "2015-12-02T02:49:38Z")
Rather like that, yes! ---
**Author:** ![ClockWorkXon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/clockworkxon/32/593_2.png) [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/13 "2015-12-02T03:41:46Z")
That looks like they are using a bad vertical alignment in the CSS. And they are using an em style with a larger font size (probably because they already have the font bolded). WTH were they thinking? ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/14 "2015-12-02T19:18:40Z")
> [@ClockWorkXon](#): > > WTH were they thinking? Something along the lines of “hey, this’ll get typographers really angry, and then we can do a full eight page article on good typography like we really want to do but have been told there’s no interest in.” …okay I can dream, can’t I? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/15 "2015-12-03T00:19:46Z")
Whaaa? ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/cog/original/1X/247c3a11da2fca086824a80a924e86f5db4d2096.jpg) OS X El Cap, Safari 9, not seeing anything like that at all. edited to add - not seeing anything like that behavior on any browser. OS X Firefox, Safari, Chrome: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/cog/original/1X/cebf4db965eec324f348c0f3734fdb042fb92320.jpg) Windows Firefox, Chrome, IE11: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/cog/original/1X/c7d87ac83ba7dd32745980892cb404fea9457d49.jpg) edit^2 - I also don’t see any unusual CSS being applied to `` objects in headlines, other than a line height adjustment to 1em—no funky padding or margin games: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/cog/original/1X/b28f2bbb1d84ae60f8b915c8eadffb34bd7969d3.png) ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/16 "2015-12-03T00:51:42Z")
Hang on I’ll have a mooch into Other Browser territory. FYI MacBook Pro 8,2; 2.2GHz i7; with the HighRes screen, El Cap 10.11.1 **EDIT** would you look at that, I open it in Opera and it’s just fine. Switch back to Safari, reload the page, and _it’s_ just fine as well now. After _weeks_. I … I declare shenanigans! ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/17 "2015-12-03T00:55:24Z")
That’s wild. I’m seriously just not seeing that in Safari 9, on either my main iMac nor on my MBA. Maybe it’s a retina thing? I don’t have any retina macs to check. ##SHENANIGANS ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/cog/original/1X/c36d9baccc0ab83507a1de94b18265a4e5e65ecc.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:04am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/18 "2015-12-03T01:04:33Z")
Well, it would appear that after a quick reboot and looking through Safari and Opera, that the weird text artefacts are banished. I guess that serves me right for not rebooting in over a month, heh heh. Although, now that this mystery is solved, how about the mystery of why everything is all broken on my Virtual Computer setup? The whole website is unusable! 😉 hehehe ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/cog/original/1X/b88a68d826671d5d4f2904a20ac79316341d0497.png) ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/19 "2015-12-03T01:06:14Z")
Solution: upgrade from Classilla to…uh…Camino I guess? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ClockWorkXon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/clockworkxon/32/593_2.png) [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090/20 "2015-12-03T01:08:38Z")
![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/cog/original/1X/78a62e30e10b306a4fe804da58c6a91f3d42126e.jpg) Found the problem. [Next page](https://cog.discourse.group/t/warning-warning-warning-theme-change-coming/1090.md?page=2)