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HUBB texts are RED!!
When using the "new threads" criteria, all the normally black texts, have gone red. Looks and reads awfully.
Also my name, after Welcome and logged in as, is in red. Horizons Unlimited - The HUBB - Search Results |
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+ 1 For the return to the Black!
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Red text !!!!
Please return to black. Very hard to read red in the sun.
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It was never black before, it was blue, just a different shade.
And the new colour is not red either, I'd say it's brown. Red is the colour of the triangle at the top right hand corner of your post, or if you're not convinced, check out that ghastly flashing red 'NEW' in the right side bar. BROWN RED If it were red, I would advised against it as many males have low sensitivity to red, being in the of longer wavelength in the visible colour spectrum we see. Anyway I like the new colour very much. _____ Paul |
:funmeteryes: IMHO red is a great improvement, keep it.
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i'm finding it hard to read....
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I prefer the old color as well, but not a big deal I guess.
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Dude, what happened to the good old "We are red, we are white, we are Danish dynamite!"? Black is for sissies. |
C'mon people. Step out of your comfort zone and LIVE a little :thumbup1:
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Interesting the comments and thoughts on this! Thanks for all the feedback, we do pay attention!
The colour is tawny orange, slightly adjusted. Just a reminder - we've had it on the rest of the site for over a year! Have a look please! We're finally getting the HUBB in line with the rest of HU re styles, colours etc. Everybody has said they like the rest of the site design, looks, color etc. At this time we're unlikely to make any major changes to colors. I'm investigating a slightly darker version, but that's it. If anyone has a problem with readability because of color blindness, please let me know. I am aware that red can be an issue there, so perhaps less red in it. Also, who on earth can read anything on a computer / phone screen in the sun? I can barely tell my phone is ON much less read it! thanks, Grant |
There must be a reason that nobody else on the net, uses brownish/orange/red for links. its ugly!!!
I guess the most common is blue. |
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Grant just wondering why you decided to mess with the font colour at all?
It does make it much harder to read in certain light conditions and as pointed out it is pretty damn ugly to boot. I routinely curse any websites that use fonts with any shades of red but it could just be my 50 year old eyes! Doesn't really add anything positive IMHO. |
Grant,
It would be possible that you allow users to select one of a few different profiles for how each prefer to view the forum? How about a simple daytime and nighttime colour scheme? Nighttime would be ideal for when we want to check in on the HUB when we're snuggled down in our tents and don't want the blazing glare to burn our retinas out in the darkness of our tent. Much how GPSs do, as an idea? Like I mentioned, I quite like it, as there is already a lot of blue and black and this colour softens it up a bit. But in saying that, I do understand that these range of colours are not normally used as a text colour for web sites. There is a debate on another techie forum I'm active on regarding much the same, where the colour used for text post headings is orange. _____ Paul |
Red is difficult for dyslexics to read so now I am doing to look into some software or browser Add on to see if I can change it. Trouble is it will probably change all of the text.
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It's certainly not red to my eyes but it does look a bit "wishy washy" especially when the text "greys out" after being read.
Anyone who is colour-visually-impaired might struggle with this shade of orangey-light brown. How about a deeper, chocolate brown? I like dark chocolate rather than milk choco. :innocent: |
Can't you just undo the last change? It was good, as it was :-)
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I would describe that colour as rust, ;)
something our old bikes know only too well! Alas it does it harder to read in the sun. |
I am colour blind so often green looks blue to me and I can't see red. I did notice what I would call brownish orange and on a white background it is relatively easy for me to read. Start mixing reds/blacks greens and blues and I wont even know there is writing present, so I wont compalin just not know I am not seeing it.
I used to manufacture and sell reading systems for the blind and visually impaired. There is a whole range of conditions out there. There is no one solution as to what is correct. On my systems for the visually impaired clients could choose a base font to any size. (limit a character had to greater than one pixel and less than a screenful). choose their own background and font colours (yellow on black was very common as a best choice). select the distance between characters and lines, also change the height to width ratio of the font. So I know pleasing everyone will be impossible. But is is easy to antagonise more people with careful selection of gimmicky colours :) I need a fairly big size of print so run a 22" at 1152 x 864 This is the highest resolution I can run and still read the text. I used to run at 1024x 768 but had to change up into what is not entirely comfortable for pages to format properly. I know there is stuff to the right of my screen at this moment, off the box into which I am typing. I never see that. so it was a waste of programming time. There was a time when a 17" screen gave me really legible print, but as the resolutions increase so I get to see less and less of what the developers are pushing out. It really is self defeating. Often I have to centre my screen to where the text is because of so much advertising clutter does not leave enough room for me to see the end of the text lines if i leave it left justified. Then I dont get to see the clutter at all. |
Thanks for all the feedback everyone!
We've spent the last several hours fiddling with colours, and have come to the conclusion - for now, subject to change! - that blue will work, so we've changed the HUBB and main site to blue-ish links. It's a softer "steel blue" than the hard bright default blue (that we hated), and we think works well with our colour scheme. We even like the tawny orange bullet points > against the blue - really stands out! Hopefully you'll all like it, if not please let us know. |
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As for developers wasting time - remember that most desktop computers are 1366 or wider, and most people run at full resolution. So, while it's a waste of time on you, over 70% of our visitors are quite happy at 1280 resolution. And the part that matters the most, the content, is at 1024. Colour blindness affects at most 6% of the population from my reading, and that's one type of color blindness, the rest of the issues are all under .01%! Hopefully it's now best for all. thanks for the input! |
This is nicer than the burnt orange; thanks!
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Aaaaaaaahhhhh :D
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ahhhh +1 ! almost duck egg blue- Good choice Susan :)
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Me too, I'm happy with the new colour.
_____ Paul |
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I had to go up to 1150 something for another site. Nice to know I can drop back to 1024 here for a more comfy read :) Update, Nope 1024 no good, I miss a bit either side of this edit box ( only a bit ) |
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Keep tapping for even larger, and tap - instead of + for smaller, and ctrl-0 to set back to standard. hope that helps! |
Nice colour change, very tasteful and more importantly, legible in bright light. :)
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Grant are you messing with our minds? My font has gone back to that browny red colour. Actually it looks like rust.
I liked the blue! |
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Are you on another computer and need to force a refresh to get the latest code on it? I wouldn't mess with your minds... :innocent: |
On my lap top its the rusty colour and on my mates one its still a nice blue?
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Can we have the rusty brown back please? I really liked it... Blue is boring. :D:funmeteryes::ban: Any chance of setting up a CSS so I can set my own colour? Maybe have pink as one of the options.:smartass:
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In the reading systems I made for the visually impaired, the text was always formatted so that whatever was on screen was sequential text. It was done by scanning in the text, OCR'ing it then displaying it in the size required using graphics on variable sized fonts. Imagine a small window The Quick Brown fox jumped over the lazy This gives the reader a dollop of text big enough to convey information.. now imagine just magnifying like this The quick now yo have to pan right until this disappears hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh brown fox now yo have to pan right until this disappears hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh jumped over ,,,,, ad nauseum.. so magnification is not he answer unless the text is justified to suit the magnification. I buy a bigger screen to get bigger text. this is defeated by the use of higher resolutions :(. |
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ANY time things seem weird, force a refresh - on any site! Grant |
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