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Kristian
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 126 |
Link colors
The link color combination on the first page is quite horrible. I am talking about purple links on the gray background (latest this, latest that). They are hardly readable. The contrast on the links vs the background on the charts to the right ain't exactly superb either.
About time to do some changes on that? :) |
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Kristian
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 126 |
My monitor is just fine. It's hardware calibrated so don't worry about that. Just for the fun of it I ran it through a couple of contrast calculators, and the results were as follows:
http://juicystudio.com/services/aertcolourcontrast.php
"The difference in brightness between the two colours is not sufficient. The threshold is 125, and the result of the foreground and background colours is 10.
The difference in colour between the two colours is not sufficient. The threshold is 500, and the result of the foreground and background colours is 346."
And if you run it through the Luminosity Colour Contrast Ratio Analyser (http://juicystudio.com/services/luminositycontrastratio.php) the result is pretty much the same:
"The contrast ratio is: 1.86:1
Fail: The luminosity contrast ratio is insufficient for the chosen colours (#424242 and #9d00ff)."
Anyway, was just to show you that the problem is not on my end :) |
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yago
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 332 |
blue!=purple |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5017 |
try with a freshly installed different browser... there's no purple at all on the main page. |
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Linus
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 638 |
Could be some weird CSS fuckup using your browser's default setting for links. |
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Kristian
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 126 |
Ehrm.. sorry guys, it's purple, not blue - but that's in Firefox, not Internet Explorer. In IE it seems to be showing the colors the same way you see them.
Not quite sure what's causing this, but my Firefox needs a kick in the ass. I once changed a setting in Firefox to show images in sRGB, but that setting was only supposed to change images, not ordinary website colors. Gotta figure this out.
But just to end this:
No, it's not neccessary to change the CSDB link colors ;) |
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gorans
Registered: Aug 2008
Posts: 14 |
I have Firefox, Mac, calibrated LCD, and links are blue and perfectly visible. It must be some problem on Your setup. |
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LOGAN
Account closed
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 71 |
I'm using Firefox all the time and looks perfect. Maybe you have some plugin that can define personal styles over existing websites altering their look.
Screenshot.. screenshot.. screenshot! |
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Kristian
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 126 |
No, I'm not using CSS overrides. I did some changes in about:config, having read that it was only supposed to change color mode on images, not all website colors. I had forgotten about this setting, so when I changed it back to default, all colors are fine again.
Here's a screenshot from FF of what it looked like: http://bildr.no/view/464510 |
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Jammer
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1289 |
gay \o/ ;) |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1576 |
Speaking of link colors, what about indicating visited links (that is, to use different colors for visited and unvisited links)? That's very basic usability.
I especially get to a FFFUUU level very fastly when there are tons of new stuffs after a party, and I check the same ugly release 6 or more times a day just because I don't remember if I visited the page already or not. |
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