Hi, I've loaded the new GeoServer UI. Generally speaking the color theme follows the guidelines, but I have the impressions there is lack of overall balance and contrast. Please have a look at how it renders on my XP box, as rendered byFirefox 3, attached. (font antialiasing disable from small size fonts, I don't like the foggy appearance of antialiased ones).
Issues:
- the "important" informations do not stand out. In particular,
- the current page in the breadcrumbs is hard to read, too light,
and too small
- the link portion (admin/config/demo) is smaller than the
descriptive text, and does not have a good contrast with
the background, making it harder to locate
- most of the descriptive text, that you usually read just once,
stands out just like the rest of the capabilities link, and more
than the navigation menu ones
- I'm not really fond of the double color bar at the top (green/blue
one)... seems like a shadow effect, but there is no displacement.
Oh well, just an impression
- Fonts seem almost bold, this makes the lack of antialiasing very
visible. But maybe they are just too big? Any chance the list of
fonts in the CSS can include some ClearType font as well?
Cheers
Andrea
PS: the antialiased/sharp fonts issue is a long standing one, I am
part of that minority that hates the fuzzyness of antialiased
fonts and prefers a well hinted non antialised one instead,
see here: http://www.sharpfonts.com/
--
Andrea Aime
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
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