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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 01 2014, @06:23AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday March 01 2014, @06:23AM (#8986) Journal

    What about the red used in the logo?

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  • (Score: 1) by Marand on Saturday March 01 2014, @10:03AM

    by Marand (1081) on Saturday March 01 2014, @10:03AM (#9042) Journal

    Maybe. Ignoring the gradient on it, the wrapper logo uses three reds that, used together, might make a good starting point. Doing something about the pure whites on the page could also help -- the problem for me is that most of the site is #FFFFFF white or that dark red.

    If trying to use the logo as a basis, the first thing I'd try is using something close to the wrapper base colour for the titles, with the user name/time line a lighter red like the wrapper highlight, and darken the comment area to something like #F0F0F0.

    Light themes are good, but you don't want to overdo the pure whites. Look at something like play.google.com -- it's a light theme, definitely, but most of the light portions are #F4F4F4 or #EEEEEE, with #FFFFFF reserved for drawing your attention. It's bright without being eye-searingly bright. This is something pipedot and slashdot also get wrong, IMO, but on those it's mitigated by the lighter, more pastel colours they use.

    I know they most likely have higher priorities than messing with this, considering they're trying to keep the news rolling while wrangling with the old slashcode, but I'd be willing to help where possible, and I'm sure people better than me at this stuff would help as well.

    On a related note, are they planning on changing the category icons? They, along with the site logo, look like they're placeholders to me, but I haven't seen anyone soliciting new ones or anything.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:46AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:46AM (#9498) Journal

      Playing around a bit, I think #eeeeee is best for the comment background.

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