28 Sep
2009
28 Sep
'09
11:24 p.m.
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...
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.
png<http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/ColorThemes/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
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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