maybe it's my monitor, but i can't tell a difference in the background colors between those two screen shots.

@phobson Thanks for pointing that out. The following two images could make this clearer (left is the case from the current online docs, right is the case implemented here). I did not want to make that grey too strong, but I do find that it helps giving some structure for the eye on pages where lots of classes/methods/attributes are documented.

Thanks for the side-by-side. But still, on my set up, I can't detect a difference between the two backgrounds. The rest of the changes are nice.

Mhh, the background of the signatures is the only thing I'm changing here. Other differences like links, fontsize etc. have been changed elsewhere in the meantime.

Maybe we wait for other people to have a look and see how they view it.

I think @phobson is angling for a GoFundMe for a new monitor...

Good news, everyone. I can see the difference on my monitor at home.

Proposal: Could you change the dl* > dt elements to

    background-color: #f4f4fb;
    padding: 1px 6px;

• adds a very slight blue touch to the background. IMO much less depressing.
• use the same values for top and bottom padding.

While I'm not sure what would be depressing about the background, I now changed it to #eff3f4, which is the same color that even row numbers have in tables. I also left a slightly bigger padding towards the top (2px) as I think otherwise this looks too compressed. This is the current look: