Earth tones

Well, it’s a big change, but I want you to see just what a little change in background color can do.

The main color is based on Patriot Buff, but is even lighter- fffffa

This is the color of the outer border and the main column.

The Recent Diaries Column and the Menu Column are a little yellower than Patriot Buff- ffffee and they are now both the same color instead of one being darker than the other.

So this is ‘earth tones’ and browns, yellows, greens, and reds should work and play well.

I’d like you to live with it for a while (like today maybe) and we’ll try something different tommorow.

No, I’m not afraid of anything, why do you ask?

It occurs to me for those not up to speed on this debate that you might like some background.

Up until now we have been relentlessly gray.  That is to say that contrast has been achieved by equally suppressing Red, Green, and Blue.

Yellow colors are achieved by disproportionately suppressing Blue.

Blue colors are achieved by disproportionately suppressing Red and Green.

Green colors are achieved by disproportionately suppressing Red and Blue.

You get the picture.

Light background colors are ABSOLUTELY necessary for adequate contrast unless you want to look like some Gamer site.

And did I mention…

Last I heard OTB was going for a Monday 9/10 rollout.

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    • pico on September 6, 2007 at 13:16

    just thought I’d point out that we currently have 75 registered users. 

  1. so it looks good to me.

  2. Let’s bail on the gray.  I love the shade in the right colums.  Good call making them the same. 

    • melvin on September 6, 2007 at 19:13

    a previous diary of mine posted itself at midnight last night. (I just deleted)

    • Turkana on September 6, 2007 at 21:00

    is much smaller than the old one.

  3. The banner, I take it, is just a test of the idea.  As others noted, the banner should be bigger than that.  And with a different color scheme.  The blue-green of the water, and then the green of the sky, for example, looks pretty bad.

    Well that’s my 2 cents on that, anyway.

    • pfiore8 on September 7, 2007 at 06:32

    !

    • Turkana on September 8, 2007 at 07:43

    the hew color for essay headlines. then again, i’m colorblind…

    • Turkana on September 8, 2007 at 09:32

    the links and headlines are now much too bright a color.

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