Fix copyright/logo text style

[MattF-NSIDC]

On my computer the QGreenland logo is less readable now than it was, maybe we could cut the buffer down by half or more?

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[mfisher87]

Here's the patch to the project file after making the font changes in QGIS: https://gist.github.com/mfisher87/0d0fc7cc5cbb27c7c32474a317e0cdd0

What a mess, but I think we can extract the important parts. Search for v3.0.0 to find our copyright label.

[mfisher87]

Here's what the problem looks like

[mfisher87]

After the patch above

[mfisher87]

This minimal patch fixes it for me:

diff --git a/qgreenland.qgs b/qgreenland.qgs
index 88355e7..4dc1344 100644
--- a/qgreenland.qgs
+++ b/qgreenland.qgs
@@ -226669,10 +226669,10 @@ https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/c4xj5rv6kv/2</abstract>
   <properties>
     <CopyrightLabel>
       <Enabled type="int">1</Enabled>
-      <Font type="QString">&lt;text-style>&lt;text-buffer bufferColor="250,250,250,255" bufferJoinStyle="128" bufferSize="1" bufferDraw="1" bufferSizeUnits="MM" bufferOpacity="1" bufferBlendMode="0" bufferSizeMapUnitScale="3x:0,0,0,0,0,0" bufferNoFill="1"/>&lt;/text-style></Font>
+      <Font type="QString">&lt;text-style fontFamily="Open Sans" namedStyle="Regular">&lt;text-buffer bufferColor="250,250,250,255" bufferJoinStyle="128" bufferSize="1" bufferDraw="1" bufferSizeUnits="MM" bufferOpacity="1" bufferBlendMode="0" bufferSizeMapUnitScale="3x:0,0,0,0,0,0" bufferNoFill="1"/>&lt;/text-style></Font>
       <Label type="QString">QGreenland v3.0.0rc1 © NSIDC 2023
 https://qgreenland.org | https://github.com/nsidc/qgreenland/</Label>
-      <MarginH type="int">0</MarginH>
+      <MarginH type="int">1</MarginH>
       <MarginV type="int">0</MarginV>
       <Placement type="int">0</Placement>
     </CopyrightLabel>
@@ -226691,8 +226691,8 @@ https://qgreenland.org | https://github.com/nsidc/qgreenland/</Label>
     <Image>
       <Enabled type="int">1</Enabled>
       <ImagePath type="QString">qgreenland.png</ImagePath>
-      <MarginH type="int">4</MarginH>
-      <MarginV type="int">8</MarginV>
+      <MarginH type="int">1</MarginH>
+      <MarginV type="int">12</MarginV>
       <Placement type="int">0</Placement>
       <Size type="int">24</Size>
     </Image>

[mfisher87]

Here's what it looks like if we switch to bold, I think this is my favorite:

[twilamoon-science]

This text does open at a fairly big size in my window. The size can be controlled by zoomining in/out with the "Magnifier", but I remember in Denmark we have a number of folks with computers that open this quite big. We might want to default on a slightly smaller size.

[MattF-NSIDC]

I think it might be opening at different sizes on different computers because those computers have different system fonts. This is a total guess. In addition to the changes to specify Open Sans Regular above, we can also explicitly set the font to 12pt and that should give a consistent small-but-readable experience on all systems. I think :)

We can test by uploading a qgreenland.qgs file to GitHub, and you can replace yours with that one and see what it looks like.

(fontSize="12")

[MattF-NSIDC]

qgreenland.qgs.zip

You'll have to unzip it, as GitHub only supports certain filetypes.

[MattF-NSIDC]

Twila tested, looks good!

EDIT: Trey tested, looks good