Suggested colour change for visited links

Hi,

Several people have complained that the colour of visited links on
maemo.org (#888) is too close to the colour of normal text (#404040).
They are both greys, and on the smaller screen of the Maemo tablets look
almost indistinguishable.

I'd like to suggest making the following change:

In midgard-data/style/maemo2009/static/css/master.css:

a.visited {
color: #a35700;
}

Why #a35700? Because our normal a colour is #fa8700 (bright orange) and
Agave gives this colour as the monochromatic mid-tone corresponding to
that colour. Another alternative (a bit too dark for my taste) is
#4f2a00, which is the shadow tone associated with the same colour.

I'd like to hear from people with more graphical sense than me what they
think of the change - and if it meets with general approval, we'll make
it so!

Cheers,
Dave.

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On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:05:07PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Several people have complained that the colour of visited links on
> maemo.org (#888) is too close to the colour of normal text (#404040).
> They are both greys, and on the smaller screen of the Maemo tablets look
> almost indistinguishable.
>
> I'd like to suggest making the following change:
>
> In midgard-data/style/maemo2009/static/css/master.css:
>
> a.visited {
> color: #a35700;
> }
>
> Why #a35700? Because our normal a colour is #fa8700 (bright orange) and
> Agave gives this colour as the monochromatic mid-tone corresponding to
> that colour. Another alternative (a bit too dark for my taste) is
> #4f2a00, which is the shadow tone associated with the same colour.
>
> I'd like to hear from people with more graphical sense than me what they
> think of the change - and if it meets with general approval, we'll make
> it so!

Now this is the once case where HTML mail would've made perfect sense
(if my client supported HTML mail, which it doesn't ;-).

Do you have any mockups on the web? I'm too lazy to go to maemo.org,
save page as, find it on the filesystem, edit the css and change the
link color.

Marius Gedminas
--
Linux: The Ultimate NT Service Pack

Hi,

----- Original message -----
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:05:07PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'd like to suggest making the following change:
> >
> > In midgard-data/style/maemo2009/static/css/master.css:
> >
> > a.visited {
> >    color: #a35700;
> > }

+1 from me on the first choice: #a35700

Of course, it's easy to change if it doesn't work after implemented. But, I'm thinking that it will work. Let's try it! :)

Thanks, Dave!

Tim

P.S. FYI http://hexday.com/color/A35700

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http://samoff.com

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 17:44, Tim Samoff <samoff@gmail.com> wrote:

> P.S. FYI http://hexday.com/color/A35700
>

nice color. +1 from me

hyartep

>
> +1 from me on the first choice: #a35700
>
+1 #a35700
+1 agave

Jeremiah