I have not followed everything about the new skin so my opinion is a bit late but I look the last proposals and I agree with you, Niels, red & blue is a bit stressful... blue, red or orange "pastel" colors are too "tasteless" to make it attractive also... Moreover, colibri skin seems quite angular and too bright colors with respect to white background and dark grey font colors gives me an impression of not being finished... something under work... you know, something is missing to make it "sexy" or "pro" depending on what you are looking for;)... not easy to explain my impression... In fact I wonder whether this is not simply due to this big background panel with a unique color not too light, not too dark... Maybe just playing with some nicer borders and some font color contrasts would make it... Not an easy work... but let me tell you everything you've already done is quite nice anyway...
Pascal On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsma...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/ColorThemes/XWATCH5/XE5.png > > > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/ColorThemes/XWATCH5/XWATCH5. > png<http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/ColorThemes/XWATCH5/XWATCH5.%0Apng> > > > 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. > 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)? > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
