[CIMC-working] Re: Color test

[Ian Bicking]

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 11:17, Doug Morris wrote:
> Regarding colors...
> 
> What about a combo:  a little lighter grey on sidebars and the light blue 
> in center... or perhaps a very light forest green on the center

I think green is weird in the main body -- green and red feel
overpowering to me in the body, though they can be okay in sidebars and
highlighting.  I'm thinking we should stay gray in the center, because
everything else that's readable feels like sissy colors, all pastel. 
But I also think Dick and Suzanna have a point about these being a
little too boring and un-revolutionary (though of course it's still all
about the content).

I put up another sample that's more colorful:
  http://colorstudy.com/cimc-test/cimc-blue.html

I tried putting red (angry!) in the sidebars, but I couldn't get it to
work.  To use red, we'd have to have white (or light) text ontop of it. 
It's a real pain in the butt to make links have different colors in the
different sections, and as a result all the links in the sidebars would
be low-contrast.  (You'll notice this problem in several IMCs -- the
revolution theme on Vancouver, for instance)  So that limits us to
light-on-dark or dark-on-light, across the entire page.

I really like this goldenrod, but maybe it's too overpowering...?

  Ian