MediaWiki UI already has the current grays defined. According to current
spec colour gray 12 (#ccc) is used for disabled text.

@colorGray1: #111; // darkest
@colorGray2: #222;
@colorGray3: #333;
@colorGray4: #444;
@colorGray5: #555;
@colorGray6: #666;
@colorGray7: #777;
@colorGray8: #888;
@colorGray9: #999;
@colorGray10: #AAA;
@colorGray11: #BBB;
@colorGray12: #CCC;
@colorGray13: #DDD;
@colorGray14: #EEE;
@colorGray15: #F9F9F9; // lightest

@colorDisabledText: @colorGray12;



On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The label being grayed out is important. The outline being closer to white
> also helps a lot, but as you said, when it's alone the outline change is
> not enough. I think the gray fill is still a little dark, maybe use #f5f5f5
> if you can swing it, but B is getting close.
>
> - Trevor
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:03 PM, May Tee-Galloway <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I made a few of variations to compare. I think B works the best because
>> it doesn't look like you can do anything about it. I greyed the text out,
>> just like what happens to disabled buttons
>> <http://tools.wmflabs.org/styleguide/desktop/section-2.html>.
>>
>> If A and C stood alone without the standard checkbox, they may not be as
>> clear that they're disabled. Is there a reason we're using lightgrey
>> instead of actual value?
>>
>> [image: Inline image 2]
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm confident she will come up with something sensible.
>>>
>>> - Trevor
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Jared Zimmerman <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Trevor, thanks, thats looking closer. I'll let may weigh in before we
>>>> finalize.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Jared Zimmerman * \\  Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia
>>>> Foundation
>>>> M +1 415 609 4043 \\  @jaredzimmerman <http://loo.ms/g0>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Trevor Parscal <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is what it looks like when the checkbox uses #ddd instead of "
>>>>> lightgrey" and the surrounding .mw-ui-checkbox div is 50% transparent.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Trevor
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe it's just me, but the new disabled checkbox doesn't look
>>>>>> disabled to me:
>>>>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/styleguide/desktop/section-5.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The normal convention for making a form element disabled is to make
>>>>>> it faded out (<100% opacity), not giving it a gray fill.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have no idea where this design came from or who is responsible for
>>>>>> it, but I was wondering if the design team could revisit it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>> Ryan Kaldari
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