On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 3:59 AM Thomas Elmiger <thomas.elmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mohammad, > Hi Thomas, > > Thanks for the initiative and the demo. Looks like it will need some > additional steps to approach the goal of maximal simplicity and user > friendliness even for beginners – but I would say it’s absolutely worth it! > > Motivated by the first example I saw from you I experimented a bit with > the tools I made some time ago. This is what I could come up with until now > and what I still consider as much too complicated: > https://tid.li/tw5/apps/palette.html > Thank you forsharing! I will go through and will share my findings. > > > Important facts, concepts and questions: > > - this is *experimental* – don’t use it for anything important > - based on the *primary* colour there are calculated a lot of other > colours automagically, all tagged and namespaced > > This is great! Having few main colors and calculate other elements color based on them, yet have possibility for fine tuning! > > - > - neighbouring colours > - triadic and quadratic contrasting colours > - like shades and tints in your demo these are meant as an > inspiration for tuning, only a few of them should be used > > Correct! > - some colours are *static* as they are hard to calculate in a > meaningful way: colours for buttons, warnings and a rather neutral scale > - Is it wise to *mix* colours for the scale (opacity = 1) and use > *alpha* transparency for the shades? > > I actually used blend macro to generate tints and shades (mix with black and white). In my new version I use hsla function and use a constant hue and then play eith s, h, and alpha! But as you said for simplicity having the minimum number of adjustable parameters is better! > - > - To transfer the result to another wiki it is relatively safe to copy *the > palette* AND all tiddlers tagged *$:/tags/Colours* (drag the tag pill) > at the moment. > - My palette *generator* (compiles all variables to fixed values) > leads to problems with transparency in tag colours. rgba definitions > seem > not to work in this form, while they work in transclustions (?!) – I > wonder > if the contrastcolour macro > <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#contrastcolour%20Macro>causes > this. > > I will have a look! but my design philosophy is to generate a palette and when finalize, save in tiddler with constant hex value preferably in #rrggbbaa > > - > - > - *Readability* can be checked for many TW use cases – but not yet > for the tiddler editor buttons for example. (They lack dedicated colours in > the CSS.) > > This is a pain! I did not inspect the vanilla theme to see where it assigned colors. @Jeremy I think the theme shall be decoupled from colors! Theme shall only create the layout and palette assign all colors! So, editor buttons shall have their own namesapace and css selectors. > > - The *Colour Scheme Manager* is not consistent in the way it is > changing colours: backgrounds are changed directly in the palette indexes, > while the others change in my new colour tiddlers. > > Thanks again and all the best, > Thomas > Thank you > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/b093e259-677e-4f38-ae8b-4fad765a84f4n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/b093e259-677e-4f38-ae8b-4fad765a84f4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAAV1gMB%3DZRtkPqU7mXZ7g1WAypznSweMHV-km3RX1E1KiJWUkQ%40mail.gmail.com.
