On 6 January 2013 01:54, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I prefer landuse areas to be darker than the default light gray background > color in the Standard rendering. This makes it obvious (especially on LCD > screens where lightness/luminance of colors vary depending on the viewing > angle) that there is a tagged area there. > > You could make the case that the farmuse area could be lighter than it is > now and/or use a different hue than brown, but don't make it as light as the > default background color.
+1 In the first proposal, I find it very difficult to see the difference between the farmland and the non-tagged areas. It's a bit easier in the second proposal. It could maybe be made a bit lighter, but not by that much. What's the lightness of the current landuse=residential grey? What does it look like if you match the farmland colour to that? Robert. >> (full text and images at >> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bYm9IWXdlVHM1N1U ) >> >> Recently landuse=farmland (or simply landuse=farm) has been added to >> fields near me. This has led to a discussion about how the rendering 'looks' >> with some arguing that it doesn't look that good. I believe that this may be >> due to the shade of colour used – specifically the farmland 'brown' is not >> as luminous as the default 'grey' (actually I think it 'lightness' rather >> than 'luminosity' that matters to the human eye but I got very confused when >> searching the two). >> >> Consider the image below, showing current rendering: >> >> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bZDBTN2dZZkpDenc >> >> On the left we have farmland tagged. The 'brown' has a Lightness value of >> 83 percent (luminance of 85%). Compare this to the default canvas 'grey', >> which has 93 percent Lightness (and 93 percent luminance). >> >> Now consider the following (and please check your screen calibration at >> http://www.photofriday.com/calibrate.php ). I have taken the farmland >> 'brown' and raised it's Lightness to the same 93 percent as the default >> 'grey' (that is, I have left the Hue and Saturation the same): >> >> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bSzk5NDZVMm5GZkE >> >> In this final image, I have adjusted the Hue and Saturation to provide >> more of a 'green': >> >> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bZXhzdVJMVU44X2M >> >> What are your thoughts? Which do you prefer? Have I gone too 'light' with >> the change and should some value in-between be used instead? Am I barking up >> the wrong tree? -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk