Jacob Rus wrote:
Ray Slakinski wrote:
I still find it hard to read, see new example
The problem here is that there is insufficient value (lightness) contrast between the colors: humans are great at distinguishing color with value contrast, and much worse when there is only contrast in hue or colorfulness.
In this case, the scheme overall would benefit from
having its colors be lighter: at the moment, they are of middle lightness, which means they don't contrast as well as they could with the black background.
That is true. I'm not entirely happy myself with it. Now, the problem here from my point of view was this:
I wanted to have a theme that plays as low in contrast as possible, preferably on a blackboard like color. ( The ones we had in school. ) with pastel like colors. ( The ones that mimic the chalk ones we had in school as well. ) Anything that has too much contrast, has a very tiring effect on the eyes. In fact, if I could get this right, it'll allow you to spend much more hours on screen. ( One reason I liked Thoma's Twilight Theme )
The tricky thing here is to find a balance of contrast between the text values and the background values.
But whatever happens to the text colors, the highlight color here should be darker, because at the moment it is of near identical lightness to the text colors, and they therefore blend right together.
Also true. Once I changed the background colors, I noticed that I've run in the opposite problem. Since I usually only use it for cutting and pasting, I didn't care about readability.
Apparently the color values have to change all together.
I'll give it another overall shot, once I get the chance.
regards, marios