Color Scheme On This Website

[rc53]

Tried the betas, not for me; I like it dark and static -- because I find it difficult to read across a long line of type and then find the start of the next one. The light is too bright for me.

[McQ]

The light scheme is now slightly less bright. Should be a little easier on the eyes.

[Colin Southern]

"The light scheme is now slightly less bright. Should be a little easier on the eyes. "

I'm afraid that it's quite a step back for me - the lowered brightness isn't so bad, but the lowered contrast with the lettering (and relatively small/thin font) has made it quite hard on the eyes - I'd have to switch back to the Fluid Black scheme if it stays like this.

Personally, I thought that the previous Fluid (white beta) was perfect - been using it all day and was completely at ease with it.

Might be an old age or personal thing, but for me I find for ease of reading, the brighter and more contrasty text is (ie the more it's like a book) the better.

Cheers,

Colin

[Colin Southern]

PS: Is it a feasable to have the previous high-contrast fluid white scheme there as an option (for old curmudgions with failing eyesite), along with other schemes for those with younger and/or better eyes?

[McQ]

Originally Posted by Colin Southern

"The light scheme is now slightly less bright. Should be a little easier on the eyes. "

I'm afraid that it's quite a step back for me

np Take a look now. It has been brightened significantly.

[Colin Southern]

Thanks Sean,

I'm now at home on a different screen (so I can't compare apples with apples), but on this screen it's looking OK. Previously (or on my 24" work screen" it was almost like font anti-aliasing or something was eating into what was already a very fine font - so what was left was looking very poorly defined.

The current font isn't bad, but as a test I told the browser to bump the size up one, but it didn't change, although ctrl + scroll wheel resizes (but then I end up with horizontal scrolling bars on my smaller 14" 1024 x 768 home screen.

All in all this one looks quite OK to me at home (I'm trying to avoid having to put on my reading glasses to see it).

Thanks again for the tweaks - much appreciated!

Cheers,

Colin

[rc53]

Just tried light/static, and the brightness seems fine now.

Thanks.

[Colin Southern]

Sean,

I'm back on my main work monitor and it's looking "ok", I guess (I think that I start to psych myself out after a while with small changes). Fonts are still looking a bit anorexic, but thinking about it this is probably due to the fact that I've got the monitor going through a KVM switch.

What I'd really like to be able to do though is simply use bigger fonts locally, but clicking on View -> Text Size -> Largest doesn't change anything for this site - can you think of any reason why CiC font sizes appear to be "hard coded" whereas other more generic web pages seem to respong to the Text Size setting just fine?

Just wondering if this is anything that can be switched on at your end?

Cheers,

Colin

[McQ]

Allowing user-adjustable font sizes ought to be straightforward. Let me look into it...

[Colin Southern]

Thanks Sean - so long as it doesn't break anything for anyone else, it would be a real winner for me.

Cheers,

Colin

[McQ]

I would highly advise switching over to Firefox btw. It has a built-in font resizer that works, unlike with internet explorer. Just go View > Zoom > Zoom Text Only, and then press the CTRL+ and CTRL- to enlarge or shrink the text, respectively.

[Davey]

or for lazy swines like me ctrl & mouse wheel in and out, makes reading even awkward pages easy. Places that are plain with huge walls of text are easy to trawl through with simple on the fly zooming where as without that feature I would struggle.

[Bill44]

From another lazy swine, thank you Nocturne, I never knew you could do that.

[Colin Southern]

"I would highly advise switching over to Firefox btw."

I might take a look at it sometime - I've heard good things about it.

I know a lot of people loath Internet Explorer (and Microsoft in general), but I've had no real issues with it. The downside for me is I'm running this on Server 2003R2 x64 - and I try to keep installed apps to the minimim, and as "Microsoft" as possible (does wonders for stability - and I don't have to worry about a whole new set of security vulnerabilities to keep track of).

I'm pretty weary of any new software these days - just seems to be so many packages out there that install so many startup programs - additional DLLs - services - you name it.

Cheers,

Colin

[Davey]

@ colin

I think you can still get portable apps versions of firefox (and a few other decent browsers too) that you just run off a flash card/usbstick. I've done that in the past when was was doing a lot between machines that I couldn't install my own software on. Let me know if no joy and I'll see what I can do.

[Colin Southern]

Thanks for that Although to be honest, I really don't have any issue with IE7 - I point it at a website and it takes me there , which is about all I need (I'm a bit of a simplehead when it comes to browsers!)

Cheers,

Colin

[JerryP]

I would prefer a white on black web site for everything including tutorials. The the text would be easier to read with a large font.

[Colin Southern]

Originally Posted by JerryP

I would prefer a white on black web site for everything including tutorials. The the text would be easier to read with a large font.

Hi Jerry,

Welcome to the CiC Forums. I take it that you've tried all 4 schemes at the bottom of the page (Personally, I prefer the light / fluid scheme).

[Daniel Salazar]

Hi Sean, the new light fluid Beta is ok! The only thing is that sometimes is not so easy to identify the color of the threads.
Cheers,
Daniel

[Dalebore]

The color scheme is great! IMO it gives CiC a solid feel and makes it stand out from those that are just full of talk and show.