Please use B&W text in documentation

[waclawek.jan]

In some newer STM32 documents, such as ES0418, text is rendered in various tints of blue. This results in decreased readability and problems when printing.

Can ST please constrain fancy color schemes to marketing material, and use conservative black-on-white in the technical documents.

Please do communicate this across management levels who may not be aware of real users' needs.

Thanks,

Jan Waclawek

PS. Other users, if agree, please add a "+1" reply

[waclawek.jan]

Okay, so the "modern feel and look" plague spread to the very core - DS13195 (STM32H7A3 DS).

Besides the font color, also the feature list (of which the most important part was so far on a single page) now spreads 3 pages, with unnecessary white space.

ST, please stop the decline of the documentation quality.

JW

[Andreas Bolsch]

Although I'd strongly support the impression of "modern feel and look" plague, I'd like to emphasize some points for a particular datasheet:

• Most documents bloated up unneccessarily, e.g. DS13139 (STM32H7B3) makes up 6 MBytes, simple piping through gs (without any visible loss!) leaves only 3.3 Mbytes. If you keep a lot of these documents for reference ... And even for ST the download bandwith does cost money.

But there also some improvements:

• JTAG/SWD characteristics included (most older datasheets omit these)
• Alternate functions: AF0-15 all in one table now, instead of split into two tables with AF0-7 and AF8-15, makes it easier to handle

[Nikita91]

+1 I recently came across the problem ...

[waclawek.jan]

The plague spreads.

https://documentation-service.arm.com/static/641b2ec1de84571cc27f3ca3?token=

JW