On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 22:39, Niels Mayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/ > ColorThemes/XWATCH5/XE5.png > > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/ > ColorThemes/XWATCH5/XWATCH5.png > > > 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. The idea was to have a common color and blue is more general accepted. It's very hard to find a strong color to fit other variation, without using non-colors (grays, black, white). Not to mention how difficult is to find a color theme, that would make anyone happy :) > > 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)? > > > Of course you can make different adjustments to make it more don't know how. The idea was to use Colibri as it is. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
