fix(zebar): larger bar font + tighten left-island spacing - #160
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- --bar-font-size 16px -> 18px: sketchybar's ~17pt suits a laptop panel, but on large external monitors the bar reads too small (eye strain). Still fits the 28px island; 20px is the next comfortable step. - left-island items (weather/caffeine/pomodoro) carried margin-left:16px, double the 8px right-island cadence, leaving the left side visibly more spread out. Drop to 8px so both islands read at the same density. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016vBxayZLa4h9xhJiJxYVVZ
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Pull request overview
Adjusts the Zebar vanilla-clear theme CSS to improve readability and visual density on larger external monitors, continuing the cross-platform “sketchybar parity” tuning for the Windows desktop bar.
Changes:
- Increased
--bar-font-sizefrom16pxto18pxfor better legibility. - Tightened left-island item spacing by reducing
margin-leftonweather,caffeine, andpomodorofrom16pxto8px.
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| Mac's current tuned look; px<->pt across DPI isn't exact, so fine-tune live. */ | ||
| :root { | ||
| --bar-font-size: 16px; /* body text/glyph size (sketchybar --default …:17.0) */ | ||
| --bar-font-size: 18px; /* body text/glyph size — bumped from 16px: sketchybar's 17pt suits a laptop panel, but on large external monitors the bar reads too small. Fits the 28px island comfortably; nudge toward 20px if you want it bigger. */ |
Copilot review nit on #160: the inline comment was long and mixed pt/px. Move the rationale to a short preceding comment and keep the variable line brief, matching the other one-line tuning knobs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016vBxayZLa4h9xhJiJxYVVZ
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What
Two
vanilla-cleartweaks from live side-by-side testing on external monitors:Bigger bar font —
--bar-font-size16px → 18px. sketchybar's ~17pt reads fine on a laptop panel, but on large external monitors the Windows bar was too small (eye strain). Still fits the 28px island comfortably;20pxis the next comfortable step if wanted.Tighten left-island spacing — the left-island items (
weather/caffeine/pomodoro) carriedmargin-left: 16px, double the 8px cadence the right island now uses. Dropped to 8px so both islands read at the same density. (.power's 20px in the right island is a separate group and left untouched.)Why
Follow-up to the merged #159 spacing pass. The right + center islands now match the Mac, but the left island was still visibly more spread out, and the overall font was too small for a multi-monitor desk setup. CSS-only — no HTML/JS or contract change.
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