[development] Re: possible theme?

[Trae McCombs]

Oh, if you do that, make text #000, then you could get away with .node
.submitted boing #666

Or would you disagree there too Ken?

Trae

On 8/31/06, Trae McCombs <traemccombs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good point Ken.
>
> If Google does it, then it must be the right way!  *chuckle*
>
> Seriously, a valid point and taken.  I think it will lose some of the
> feel, but since we are designing by committee here, I'll conceed this point.
>
>
> Trae
>
> On 8/31/06, Ken Rickard <agentrickard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Oops. Forgot to edit the subject line.  Mea culpa.
> >
> > >> default body text should be _black_ #000000
> >
> > vs.
> >
> >
> > >Main text color should stay as it is, otherwise it'll lose the affect.
> >
> > Trae,
> >
> > I'm going to really press on this one.  What effect?
> >
> > Readability trumps other interface concerns.  That's why Google, Yahoo!,
> > Amazon, (and Drupal.org <http://drupal.org/>, and Buytaert.net<http://buytaert.net/>)
> > all use black-on-white.
> >
> > Even Web 2.0 poster-children like Flickr use black-on-white for primary
> > text.
> >
> > The purpose of body text is to be easy and simple to read.  For most
> > people, pure black on pure white is the best contrast, the most common, and
> > the easiest.
> >
> > I've had this fight internally at my company as well, as our designers
> > went through a strong "Let's do everything in 6 shades of gray" phase.
> >
> > Any design that deviates from black-on-white can never get a 5 from me.
> >
> > - Ken Rickard
> > agentrickard
> >
> > And for the record, my personal page:
> > http://ken.therickards.com/
> >
> > Where 'gray' means 'of lesser importance' than the content you want to
> > read.
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>     Trae McCombs || http://occy.net/
>   Founder - Themes.org // Linux.com
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>



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  Founder - Themes.org // Linux.com
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