Virgil Ierubino wrote:
On 04/04/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Two reds? What a nightmare!
Quite! Above all, I DO NOT think we should change colours beyond what we have right now: blue and red. That's too beautifully simple to alter.
Don't forget that those who are colourblind (even a bit and are predominantly men) will have a hard time distinguishing two shades of red. That can be up to 10% of readers.
Some web sites have _terrible_ colour design - I can't read the commented text in code examples on the PHP.net pages, for example - orange on grey is not exactly easy to read.
In fact, I sometimes can't tell visited-blue from black on wiki pages unless the monitor brightness/contrast is just right. That means the links just disappear - I've been thinking of changing them to underline.
Mike PS - I recently upgraded my computer and ran the Adobe utility for gamma settings on the monitor. I was subsequently a tad surprised to see what colours I had subjected my wiki users to!