29 Sep
2009
29 Sep
'09
6:30 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 00:24, Pascal Voitot <pascal.voitot.dev(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I have not followed everything about the new skin so
my opinion is a bit
late but I look the last proposals and I agree with you, Niels, red & blue
is a bit stressful...
blue, red or orange "pastel" colors are too "tasteless" to make it
attractive also...
Moreover, colibri skin seems quite angular and too bright colors with
respect to white background and dark grey font colors gives me an
impression
of not being finished... something under work... you know, something is
missing to make it "sexy" or "pro" depending on what you are looking
for;)... not easy to explain my impression... In fact I wonder whether this
is not simply due to this big background panel with a unique color not too
light, not too dark... Maybe just playing with some nicer borders and some
font color contrasts would make it...
The idea was to use Colibri as it is, without changing the borders and the
fonts. Thanks for feedback :)
Not an easy work... but let me tell you everything
you've already done is
quite nice anyway...
Pascal
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/ColorThemes/XWATCH5/XE5.png
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/ColorThemes/XWATCH5/XWATCH5
.
> Combining red and blue is
visually stressful. They focus at different
> lengths and therefore your eyes will be fighting to focus both colors
> simultaneously. Even orange has enough long-wavelength red in it as to
> cause
> this "3d optical illlusion" effect slighltly, against short-wavelength
> blues
> and purples.
> Niels
> http://nielsmayer.com
> PS: IMHO, there should be an option
to put a border/bevel/inset/outset
> (just
> regular html, no images or rounded corners) around the different panels.
> Seems like Gmail has a good "look" in this regard, with simple borders
that
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look good, render efficient, and aren't
distracting:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/four-new-themes.html . They seem
to
> have well-chosen contrasting colors for text areas as well -- what about
> just copying some of their simpler color "themes" (the color palette, not
> the exact look)?
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