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I'm looking to consolidate the things that need to be done to improve the dark theme on this board, since it looks like we're keeping it. Post here if you've noticed anything you'd like to get changed.
The List:
- Could do with more visual distinction between new posts/no new post icons
-Dark text on dark background in login text boxes
-Dark text in quick reply box(no repro, Ominous only)
-Some WYSIWYG icons a bit hard to see
-Hyperlinks should stand out more
Think you can make the new posts/ no new posts icons the same as on the main forum page? Those are very clear, and I feel they fit in the theme a lot better too.
I'ma gonna break this thing, aren't I? :(
While using dark vision to post, I got a message saying 'more than 30 posts are in this thread, click here to view entire thread' or something like that. Lost my quote and reply. It was all buggered up!
Cleared cache and cookies and rebooted, but clicking on the old bookmark took me to dark vision log in page again. But it only had a partially shaded box for username, no place for password. Tried anyway, and got invalid request message.
Had to switch to white default style to log in.
Yes GGT, you gonna break this forum too! :haha:
Anyway, I can log in just fine with my own computer, but when I tried to log in on The Friend's laptop, I had a hella hard time! (Yes I know my username and password! :p)
Fixed the login text color. Should be easier to see what you're typing in those boxes from now on.
It seems like hyperlinks should be made more distinctive in this theme. Any users of the dark vision theme agree? If so, what colors or other changes are suggested?
I like Yellow on the dark theme.
I think this is a problem on all themes, but in IE the link box around avatars is huge.
I tried finding better thread icons for the theme, but this is the best I could find:
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/7453/blackv.gif
What do people in the * vision themes think about that, versus using the same icons as Classic Blue, versus leaving the icons alone?
Also having trouble with designy stuff for link colors in the dark vision theme.
How's this work for a hyperlink?
Orange works better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
Because we should always do the polar opposite of anything Being says, I'm in favour of Wraithy's proposed colour.
No.
Orange is terrible. People don't want their eyes assaulted with hideous bright colors. That's a reason for the popularity of the dark themes and all. Wraithy's choice looks marvelous with the violet, I'm sure it works well with dark, too.
Also, I don't particularly like the icons for classic blue, so I prefer the ones Wraithy found to that.
I'm not familiar with the icons in Classic Blue, and don't really care either way. Lolli is wrong, the orange is fine, better than links matching her purple-hue obsession. It's a darker orange, not a bright one, and unlike the violet it has good contrast from both the surrounding fielding and other text. Without being painful, the way many reds are.
I'd just like to point out that Fuzzy is wrong.
I agree with Icky.
That orange is quite bright.
And Wraithy's color is blue, not purple.
You should calibrate your monitor. :haha:Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Oh really :bored:Quote:
Originally Posted by Being
The orange is offensive. I can't understand why anyone would want it.
hyperlink?
hyperlink?
hyperlink?
hyperlink?
hyperlink?
The last one is Being's orange. It should at least be the goldenrod instead.
I kind of like option number 2 from that list.
No goldenrod :mad:
Well from an artist's standpoint, dark vision uses a mix of gray, and light blue for its theme, so I'm thinking it should be a light blue.
I vote orangered.
And yet you have three orange dots for you signature. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Illusions
Because I use the Classic Blue theme...Quote:
Originally Posted by Being
That's just bad taste. :bulb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Illusions
That's the one with the least contrast, you nutbar. If a decent orange is impossible, it should be the blue middle one.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
You're so un-fabulous
The blue middle one is the one that's in right now. I can change it to the orange if it's really wanted, but are you sure? The scheme is shades of grey with touches of blue. The orange is obscene.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
I thought you used the default eye-burning scheme anyways?
I thought we've already been over the fact that contrast is bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
Man with taste, not surprised. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Illusions
Anyway, any theme will beat that violet crap. ;)
It'll be easy to distinguish my hyperlinks.
Hyperlink
Why do you have to break shit?
Stress testing is destructive.
I don't think this procedure is what you think it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Being
And it happens to be the second best color from that array.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
The orange isn't obscene, it's functional. It's obvious without being painful. Sure it sticks out, but it's supposed to stick out, that's the point. Sure, Dark might use touches of blue already, but when we say touches, we really mean it. They're minimal, and more unobtrusive than hyperlinks are intended to be. And of course I don't use the default. Bright backgrounds are painful for me. You were going to discontinue Dark entirely, remember, and I was one of the people who said they liked it, even slightly preferred it to Classic Blue.Quote:
I can change it to the orange if it's really wanted, but are you sure? The scheme is shades of grey with touches of blue. The orange is obscene.
I thought you used the default eye-burning scheme anyways?
No, contrast is not inherently bad. Too much contrast is bad. Likewise, not enough contrast will also see us getting eaten by bears. We want the right amount of contrast (so that it's not fuzzy at all) whose color stands out, and which is not uncomfortably bright. That orange is the same one used for hyperlinks *and by Alber* for years on AtariCC, and here with Classic Blue, so we know it's not too bright, and there is no substantial difference in its display on the Dark theme in the other respects either.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
IMHO the orange in Classic Blue was mainly used because it was used in the Atari CC blue style. I plan on offering a version of Classic Blue without it when I have time, and will need to decide on a new blue to use for links as well. I understand the orange's aesthetic usage, it offers a nice complementary and contrasting color to the analogous blues used, however not everyone may like it, and some have voiced dislike of it...so...yeah...
...frankly a lot of the style decisions that were made when creating Classic Blue boiled down to "What was the Atari version like?" or "Is this in the spirit of the blue Atari style?". It has been freshened up and modernized a bit, as the original style was pre-version 3.5 in vBulletin, and the shift to using mainly the .png image format in 4.0.
...I'm waxing sentimental about the creation of a vBulletin style... :sour:
I found it objectionable in Classic Blue and on Atari as well - the theme I used for ACC didn't differentiate hyperlinks at all, and that was really just fine with me. It seems to me that just a subtle difference is more than sufficient for that.
I believe Ness actually wanted a different color for hyperlinks, though, and since she is the only other person I know of who uses the violet theme (not saying there aren't others, of course) and she doesn't want something glaring and terrible I'm not going to complain about it.
Its like having a racist grandparent...sure the racism is objectionable, but there are other qualities that make it lovable...Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Alright, the dark deed is done. I hope you can live with the consequences.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
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