[mythtv] Official Thread: Mythtv.org Redesign

[Sid Boyce]

Chris Petersen wrote:
> Jonatan Lundin wrote:
>> Here is my design contribution:
>> http://files.ettention.se/mythTV/mockups/mockup-1.png
>>
>> I did this mockup last night so it's only a first draw, but I'd like to
>> see what you think.
> 
> I really like the color scheme and the smoothness of the whole thing,
> but am a little wary of the light on dark color scheme.  Though I
> personally use it on my machine, some web design studies have indicated
> using light text on a dark background page-wide will "annoy" most
> readers on an unconscious level and lead to shorter browsing times and
> higher turnover rates.
> 

Perhaps it's all to do with colour perception and tolerance. Sites such 
as phoronix used to be a nightmare to read. Now they've changed to dark 
text on a light (white) background, so presumably many others besides 
myself found it very taxing as the text colour seemed to merge into the 
background - very poor contrast resulting, that's why camouflage is used 
to good effect in the military.
Using thunderbird 3.x to compose this reply, the original text is blue 
on a green background and very difficult to read while my text is in 
white on the green background and easily readable.
Regards
Sid.
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