Support Theme: make blockquote legible

[joyously]

I would really like to see the blockquote style changed to be more legible. It is currently light gray on white, and italic. It would be great if the color was the same as other text. I'd prefer that it wasn't italic as well (a lot of characters like / and # and ~ are difficult to distinguish and any emphasis used in the original is lost), but the color is more important.

At least both together is really bad, but fixing one or the other would help.

Here is the current look:

And here is how it could look:

[sterndata]

Two changes to the CSS for blockquote:

    border-left: 2px solid #888;
    color: #444;

[SergeyBiryukov]

The current color and styling is consistent with the rest of WordPress.org themes, so if any adjustments are needed, I'd suggest making them globally.

@mapk: Could we use a darker color here for easier readability?

[SergeyBiryukov]

The current color and styling is consistent with the rest of WordPress.org themes

That said, looks like the News blog still uses older styles from wp4.css, as seen in the ​4.9.6 release post.

Screenshot: 3849.blockquote-on-news-blog.png​.

[mapk]

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

The current color and styling is consistent with the rest of WordPress.org themes, so if any adjustments are needed, I'd suggest making them globally.

@mapk: Could we use a darker color here for easier readability?

Good catch, @joyously.

Let's make a few changes to the blockquote selector:

border-left: 2px solid #767676;
color: #767676;
font-style: italic;
padding-left: 0.8rem;

[netweb]

In 7771:

Support Theme: Update blockquote styling

Props mapk.
Fixes #3849.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 7774:

Support Theme: Display blockquotes in normal font style.

Props mapk, joyously.
See #3849.