On 12/25/2010 04:59 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
The new ODFAuthors website should have a new color scheme. I'm sure many
of you are more artistic than I am, so let's put the group mind to work
here. ;-)
Pretty sure that I am not artistic, but, I do have a few comments:
First, a few clarifications.
Is this respect to the created documents or the web site itself? I think
that the colors are more important for the documents (in what ever form
they are published) than the web site. Assume all of my comments are in
the context of documentation and not the web site. I do include "wiki"
versions of the documents, PDFs, and printed copies as documentation.
The background should be basically white or a pale color or gray, for
ease of reading; light text on a dark background is difficult for many
people, including me, to read.
So the real question is the highlight colors. IMO they should NOT be the
same as OOo's new blue or TDF's green, unless the site includes both.
Perhaps orange, like the one on the Ubuntu site? http://www.ubuntu.com
I am hesitant to write anything given that Jean has probably spent many
hours working on this and likely knows much better than I, but, here are
a few ramblings that may, or may not be useful:
If we have someone who actually knows and understands the science
between how color affects readability, comprehension, and retention, I
am hesitant to tell them that neither green nor blue may be used. For
example, consider this:
From: http://sigs.aisnet.org/sighci/bit04/BIT_Hall.pdf
Major findings were: a) Colors with greater contrast ratio generally
lead to greater readability; b) Color combination did not significantly
affect retention; c) Preferred colors (i.e., blues and chromatic colors)
lead to higher ratings of aesthetic quality and intention to purchase;
and d) Ratings of aesthetic quality were significantly related to
intention to purchase.
One of the points mentioned in this paper is that many claims are made
without anything backing the claim.
I always liked the color schemes used by the OOo Authors documents. Not
certain who I should thank for that.
Merry Christmas
--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
