[mythtv] Official Thread: Mythtv.org Redesign

Sid Boyce sboyce at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Dec 3 13:53:12 UTC 2007


Sid Boyce wrote:
> 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.

Now I have looked at the design, the colour contrast seems perfectly OK, 
works if the right combination is selected.
Regards
Sid.
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