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#Post#: 1021--------------------------------------------------
Font color guideline (?)
By: Orchid Date: August 3, 2016, 1:49 am
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Hello again, Mavericks. I wanted to look into font colors and
making sure everyone has a good time. I don't want anyone to
feel like they don't have any options when using colors for
their posts.
From my own experience on the forum, and simply because I don't
want to be too flashy, I have been using the standard color with
some default colors for headers and bulletins. I know some
forums like to have their Admin and Mods use color text to make
them stand out but I don't want to take away the freedom and
choice members have.
So this is just a rough recommendation, its not rules or
anything. Just stuff i thought might help Mavericks as i was
poking around other forums.
These are colors you may want to avoid as your common font.
Colors that are harsh on black background and/or give anxiety:
[list]
[li]Red[/li]
[li]Orange[/li]
[li]Yellow[/li]
[li]Lime Green[/li]
[li]Blue[/li]
[/list]
Colors too dark to read on black background:
[list]
[li]Maroon[/li]
[li]Navy blue[/li]
[li]Teal[/li]
[li]Brown[/li]
[li]Green[/li]
[li][Color=purple]purple [/color][/li]
[/list]
I know that is majority of the colors are in the default tab. I
was to remind fellow Mavericks this isn't a set rule and it's
only just some advice for choosing a font color for regular
post. I use limegreen, red, orange and I think yellow every now
and then and I'm sure most of you have changed your font to draw
attention to it.
You are also not restricted by the colors the forum offers, you
can choose any color you like by replacing the word with the her
code. Here are a few links to help you find a good font color to
test out that you can have fun with.
HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors
HTML http://html-color-codes.com/
HTML http://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp
So far everyone has been good with the colors. It's OK to be
creative with the colors, I encourage Mavericks to try out
different colors if you feel like it. It's also OK to just stick
with the plain light grey font too if you are happy with that.
It doesn't make you any less creative.
I'm looking into changing the background so bright colors don't
appear as harshly. I heard it could also make the forum more
inviting.
#Post#: 1026--------------------------------------------------
Re: Font color guideline (?)
By: HematoLogMeIn Date: August 3, 2016, 12:56 pm
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Fair points. I believe, if anyone is curious, two colors that
work are deepskyblue and magenta, both of which look pretty okay
in this site tbh...
#Post#: 1027--------------------------------------------------
Re: Font color guideline (?)
By: Lumaria Date: August 3, 2016, 11:35 pm
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I play with colors all the time. I use paint and use the color
that shows there to get the hex code.
Those sites look very useful, they could make colors more
useful. I'm very familiar with Wikipedias web color article
though.
#Post#: 1033--------------------------------------------------
Re: Font color guideline (?)
By: guest4 Date: August 4, 2016, 4:30 am
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This is what goes on in my own head whenever I see someone
posting every single posts in full-on [font=Monotype
Corsiva]rainbow[/font] eyegasmic spectacle on a typical ,
regular forum(s) ... :
"Just ... stick with the default white text on dark/black
background and vise versa for regular posts , please ? Why the
need to color-fied every single posts you've ever made , down to
the very LETTER !?"
I know you (Whoever is guilty of this) want to project some sort
of personality to the readers about you , the post or whatever
but PLEASE , just don't do that in colors ... it makes you
look(sound) like a hippie on drugs , okay ? Your posts are meant
to be read , not to be mesmerized visually . Same goes for the
font size and [font=Comic Sans MS]type[/font] as well ...
Not that I discouraged the use of colored fonts or the size and
type for that matter , but there's a right time for it to be
used ... and used sparingly .
God , must I tell these posters that I'm using glasses while
reading 'it' ?
#Post#: 1034--------------------------------------------------
Re: Font color guideline (?)
By: rockafella Date: August 4, 2016, 7:07 am
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[quote author=DeAngelus link=topic=104.msg1033#msg1033
date=1470303004
"Just ... stick with the default white text on dark/black
background and vise versa for regular posts , please ?
Not that I discouraged the use of colored fonts or the size and
type for that matter , but there's a right time for it to be
used ... and used sparingly .
[/quote]
No.....sounds like you're not discouraging it at all..... ::)
#Post#: 1035--------------------------------------------------
Re: Font color guideline (?)
By: guest4 Date: August 4, 2016, 10:26 am
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[quote author=rockafella link=topic=104.msg1034#msg1034
date=1470312473]
[quote author=DeAngelus link=topic=104.msg1033#msg1033
date=1470303004]
"Just ... stick with the default white text on dark/black
background and vise versa for regular posts , please ?
Not that I discouraged the use of colored fonts or the size and
type for that matter , but there's a right time for it to be
used ... and used sparingly .
[/quote]
No.....sounds like you're not discouraging it at all..... ::)
[/quote]
[font=Impact]TOTALLY[/font] ::)
#Post#: 1043--------------------------------------------------
Re: Font color guideline (?)
By: Lumaria Date: August 4, 2016, 12:03 pm
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I like my stories to have color on them so I always mix in
color. But it's to give my story a certain vibe.
#Post#: 1044--------------------------------------------------
Re: Font color guideline (?)
By: HematoLogMeIn Date: August 4, 2016, 12:21 pm
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I mostly use color to differentiate my posts from others when
I'm quick scrolling to be honest. I chose red here because on my
screen it looked nice, but I recognize that on others it might
have looked terrible, so I stopped when asked and decided to
just keep the dash of red in my signature to do so.
I don't see any problem with color or typefont, and I personally
feel that serif fonts are just easier to read, but I may be a
minority there (or a romanticist). Now, as for size, as long as
it isn't like, over size sixteen or eighteen I'm generally fine,
because I have terrible eyesight and size twelve or fourteen
helps me read them, depending on the font. On a lot of sites
like this, I use the browser's zoom and set it at about 115%
anyway. Using size eighteen for a header, however, while a bit
of a stretch, and depending on the surrounding font sizes, might
be acceptable. Exceptions would be a huge statement like "Happy
Birthday" or "Thank you."
Again, I don't really have anything against different colors or
typefonts, and I see them as an additional expression of the
poster. If something like how someone chooses to type (so long
as they aren't flooding a huge space by the font size and the
contrast is fairly legible) gets under your skin so badly, I
don't know what to tell you.
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Re: Font color guideline (?)
By: guest4 Date: August 6, 2016, 6:07 am
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HTML http://www.writer2001.com/colwebcontrast.htm
HTML http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/08/the-dos-and-donts-of-dark-web-design/<br
/>(note the lack of color usage & variety on their examples ?)
Eventhough the second link is more for web designers in general
, I feel that it's kind of related to what is in question here .
I'm going to ask those who loves to use all sorts of colors to
hover on this spoiler , just to give you a better picture of
when I said "use it sparingly" and "when it calls for it" ...
Warning : Eye hazard incoming !
[spoiler]Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth
English) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in
humans to the categories called red, blue, yellow, etc. Color
derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light power
versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral
sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and
physical specifications of color are also associated with
objects or materials based on their physical properties such as
light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra. By defining a
color space colors can be identified numerically by their
coordinates. Because perception of color stems from the varying
spectral sensitivity of different types of cone cells in the
retina to different parts of the spectrum, colors may be defined
and quantified by the degree to which they stimulate these
cells. These physical or physiological quantifications of color,
however, do not fully explain the psychophysical perception of
color appearance. The science of color is sometimes called
chromatics, colorimetry, or simply color science. It includes
the perception of color by the human eye and brain, the origin
of color in materials, color theory in art, and the physics of
electromagnetic radiation in the visible range (that is, what we
commonly refer to simply as light).
Credit goes to :
HTML http://www.glitter-graphics.com/generators/rainbow.php[/spoiler]
Let's give it another one :
[spoiler]Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth
English) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in
humans to the categories called red, blue, yellow, etc. Color
derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light power
versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral
sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and
physical specifications of color are also associated with
objects or materials based on their physical properties such as
light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra. By defining a
color space colors can be identified numerically by their
coordinates.
Because perception of color stems from the varying spectral
sensitivity of different types of cone cells in the retina to
different parts of the spectrum, colors may be defined and
quantified by the degree to which they stimulate these cells.
These physical or physiological quantifications of color,
however, do not fully explain the psychophysical perception of
color appearance.
The science of color is sometimes called chromatics,
colorimetry, or simply color science. It includes the perception
of color by the human eye and brain, the origin of color in
materials, color theory in art, and the physics of
electromagnetic radiation in the visible range (that is, what we
commonly refer to simply as light).
Even if that person has a very healthy pair of eyes , sooner or
later they'll have to be like me , wearing glasses/contact lens
almost all day , everyday just to read what you've written there
and I personally hate wearing glasses round the clock
...[/spoiler]
Source :
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color
Even a pair of healthy eyes will end up wearing glasses/contacts
eventually , like me (and I hate it) after reading texts like
this , especially texts that are long & had been bolded and/or
enlarged .
EDIT : I love rainbows . So don't make me type out everything in
it ...
#Post#: 1082--------------------------------------------------
Re: Font color guideline (?)
By: HematoLogMeIn Date: August 6, 2016, 12:10 pm
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Neither one of those bothers my eyes, personally, and I think
the bright neon greenish one actually looks quite nice.
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