ArticlesIn response to various colourful opinions about the old “cane-toad” colours, I have tried again, this time following an approved colour-scheme from ColourSchemer.com.
I’m still in two minds about the change – it seems both dull and garish to me, but what would I know? I liked the cane-toad scheme.
Any comments? Should I take the royal-ish blue on the left down a couple of hues? Is it too blue? Should I abort this scheme and try again?
For a comparison, here’s a site still using the old scheme (at the time of writing)
Comment by Julian on November 20, 2005
Stop Press: Due to a comment on a related post from Richard, I have changed to Royal Blue to something less garish.
Comment by Alastair on November 20, 2005
The blog title seems a little pale to me. Needs more contrast with the background.
I confess I liked the old colour scheme better.
The main thing that I didn’t like about the layout was the weird margins and padding (which I took to mean “Julian didn’t have the time or inclination to fool around with the CSS more” rather than an explicit statement of Julian’s aesthetic judgement).
Comment by Aristotle Pagaltzis on November 20, 2005
You may want to try the wellstyled Color Scheme Generator for some good suggestions.
Comment by Julian on November 21, 2005
Alastair,
Are you now happy with the margins and padding? I made a lot more changes than just colours.
Aristotle,
I did try to use a similar tool, ColorBlender, at first. My aim was to preserve one or two colours from the original site, and have ColorBlender recommend some additions. My first attempt didn’t work because, while the colours looked good next to each other, they weren’t optimised for readability.
Comment by Sunny Kalsi on November 21, 2005
It’s also how you use colour. Admittedly, I don’t know any better, but I think you may be able to achieve a much greater effect by messing with the borders.
Comment by Richard on November 21, 2005
Indeed, this colour scheme is more pleasing to me (blue being my favourite colour).
I hate to bring it up now, but the RH margin for the actual text is too small (it looks like it’s set to zero to me). Looks like a job for
.contentcolumn .text
{
padding-right: 0.5em
}
PS: adding the next/prev nav links to the bottom of each post seems to have improved the chance that someone will see the preview rendering… maybe a link above this edit box to remind people that it’s there would make it even more useful.
Comment by Alastair on November 22, 2005
Definitely improving.
The headers above each comment are in a box which has a dashed border on the bottom. I think I know why you do this but it still looks odd (maybe deliberate given the domain name?).
Having the headers flush with the right side of the page and inset from the left margin is also a bit odd. The asymmetry makes me think that there should be a horizontal scrollbar even though there isn’t.