Last modified: 2011-02-11 01:30:58 UTC
In Wikipedia, there is a whole line worth of vertical whitespace between a section header and the text proper. That is just wrong, because it causes your eye to wonder about when browsing the text rapidly. There *should* be a space, but the space should *also* be somewhere between 20% and 33% of the x-height, if proportional to font size, or somewhere between .5mm and 1mm in absolute units (in my stylesheet I opt for the latter unit). If there is an underline below a topic heading, I'd opt for the lower end of the scale (as I do myself). As such, I think proper typography mandates that the styling of Wikipedia (and I think Wikimedia default) be changed.
I do not actually know whether my Wikipedia default style comes from Wikimedia. If it doesn't, it'd be nice to know where it comes from so that I could spare you the trouble of looking at my bug reports.
In both the current default Monobook skin and the new Vector skin I definitely don't see what looks like a whole line's worth of space below section headers; it looks much less than a whole line. Can you attach a screenshot?
