Re: Re: Really Quick Mockup

["rpmuldoon students wisc edu" <rpmuldoon students wisc edu>]

>Looks nice. I have a couple of problems with the colors. Basically,
>everything looks like I turned brightness on my monitor up a few notches.
>Everything's very low contrast and hard to read (especially the body text).

The body text is definitely one of the things I wanted to think about.  I like the charcoal, and find it to be a bit "softer," but I don't know how usable it is.  I'd have no problem switching to black if that is what we agree on.  But I do think that the charcoal is nicer.

>I'd like to see some darker colors thrown into the mix, this is a >bit "wimpy" for my taste.

I definitely want to use some stronger colors.  I tried to initially, but you can't use dark colors for the background of dark text.  I have an aversion to white text, so I tried to make things work nicely with black text.  My thinking was that the highlight colors would be the lighter shade of the main color for the particular sections.  That would give us the darker colors.  Another way is to use a (gnomeish) icon for the section headers.  It would make the page a little more interesting, I think.  I like how digitect tried to use icons initially.  I don't think we should have one for every menu item, but for sections, it might be nice.  That does, of course, put greater requirements on the artists of the group.  I know I can't make nice icons, so I didn't want to push it as a requirement.  But if someone is able to do them, it would look good.

      --Ryan




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