29 Sep
2009
29 Sep
'09
6:29 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 22:39, 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.png
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.
The idea was to have a common color and blue is more general accepted. It's
very hard to find a strong color to fit other variation, without using
non-colors (grays, black, white). Not to mention how difficult is to find a
color theme, that would make anyone happy :)
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 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)?
Of course you can make different adjustments to make it more don't know
how.
The idea was to use Colibri as it is.