----- Original Message -----
From: "Brandon
Harris"<bharris(a)wikimedia.org>
It's the exact same yellow as before, guys.
The *exact* shade.
This is the exact definition of a "bikeshed" argument. Feel free to
move along.
I don't see, Brandon, that Erwin suggested that it is not.
But no, colorization of elements of a user interface is in fact *not* a
bikeshed argument: these colors actually matter to people, because they
have culturally ingrained expectations about what they mean -- though those
cultures may be geopolitical or they may be intentional (programmers, geeks,
etc).
Additionally, of course, there are best practices for how far apart colors
should be to be easily distinguishable, what luminance and saturation work
best, and what color combinations are bad for colorblind people.
So please, stop taking this stuff personally, and address the issue?
You're a designer; you know know better than to have ego tied up in the
results...
I don't have any ego tied up in this other than going "wtf" at why this
is a thing.
The old colors - yellow/green were not good for a lot of reasons. When
it came down to it, the only colors we really *can* use are yellow and
blue.
Here's what happened:
* I was asked to look at the bug as part of my 20% code review.
* I applied Erwin's patch (manually) and then played with changing
colors around to see what worked and what didn't.
* I tested everything in various color-blindness tools.
* I came to the conclusion that we could ONLY use yellow and blue because:
- Orange and blue vibrated next to each other.
- Yellow and purple vibrated next to each other.
- The use of green or red in any combination was not going to work
for a jillion reasons
- Blue and Purple turned into the same color with colorblindness
filters on.
- Ergo, Yellow and Blue, with orange-ish highlights.
The yellow is *unchanged*
The blue is basically Erwin's blue except I might have tapped it
around a bit to bump up contrast in certain places; I don't remember
exactly.
So. What was *supposed* to be a 15 minute task has now turned into a
drama - over something I don't really care that much about anyways.
This was an open bug. I was asked to address it. I did. That's the end
of the story.
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Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation
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