Youtube does dark background for saving energy once a year. So, not only at least one big website uses dark background, it's also good for the environment. Additionally, functionality really isn't a problem with current dark background. Reasons: - mostly there is less text / no huge text deserts - the text builds a high contrast to the background, especially thanks to bold typo and because the text is big enough - it's not that colors on the website are so onesided and intense, that uncomfortable compensation effects are happening (looking on red background, switching to white background, seeing green although no green is there) If despite of all that it just has to be made more functional, I'd rather make the space between the letters a tiny bit bigger, and if that's not enough than would redo and instead of that choose a slightly bigger text size. Finally, asthetic design does matter. You eat with your eyes first, and the current dark background as it is is the perfect reflection in design of a key component of the freenet: The darknet.
Greetings, Torben Lechner --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Von: Ian <[email protected]> Datum: 07.11.2015 00:37:56 An: [email protected], Discussion of development issues <[email protected]> Betreff: Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:23 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: The dark background is fine. Functionally the current setting ain't that bad, and aside of that the dark background is a nice change. Consider that one aspect of beauty is rarity and relations: If everything looks alike (white background) across the internet, then that look is not interesting or beautiful, but boring average. Originality might be important for art, but a website is a user-interface first, art (a distant) second. With a user interface, it is very rare that doing something nobody else does is a good thing, normally there is a good reason why nobody else is doing it. In this case, almost nobody does dark backgrounds because it makes the site hard to read. The tool fails to do it's job. Ian. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
