Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] Who can design nice and unique color themes for xwiki.org
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 22:39, Niels Mayer <[email protected]> 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.
Hi, On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Ecaterina Valica <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 22:39, Niels Mayer <[email protected]> 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.
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