New <h1> headline font: Montserrat

[amotl]

Introduction

With that patch, the theme started using the Montserrat font for <h1> headlines.

• Replace Poppins font with Montserrat #460

Preview

It can be inspected on this downstream build of the CrateDB Guide.

• https://cratedb-guide--12.org.readthedocs.build/install/redhat.html

Thoughts

• We already reduced total width, by decreasing letter spacing with 4fd785c.
• Maybe also reduce the boldness (font weight) just a bit more?
• Any other suggestions? Just use Arial again?

/cc @karynzv, @msbt, @seut, @matriv, @proddata, @hammerhead

[msbt]

@amotl we can use any font-weight available: https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts/montserrat?subsets=latin - current one is 700, happy to lower it to 600.

[msbt]

Reduced font weight, as suggested.

• adjust font-weight of h1 #466

[amotl]

Thanks!

[amotl]

• We already reduced total width, by decreasing letter spacing, with 4fd785c.
• Reduced font weight as suggested, see adjust font-weight of h1 #466.

Sorry to be a pain. I believe, now that we decreased total width by reducing the font weight, it might be appropriate to reset the letter spacing back to normal. We are sharing a few samples below. Maybe I'm wrong. wdyt?

-- https://crate-docs-theme.readthedocs.io/

-- https://cratedb.com/docs/guide/admin/sharding-partitioning.html

-- https://cratedb.com/docs/guide/

[msbt]

@amotl currently it's -1.4px, I wouldn't go back to the default since the font really is wide. What about some sort of middle ground, like -0.5px?

[amotl]

Sounds good. I think we will need to see it in action if it is more pleasant, and does not add back too much total width.

[msbt]

@amotl can you use the inspect element tool from your browser for that?

Screeencast-letter-spacing.webm

[ckurze]

Done - Thank you :)