Low contrast Gold member names

  • joebert
  • Weathered
  • Genius
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Feb 10, 2004
  • Posts: 11879
  • Loc: Clearwater, FL
  • Status: Offline

Post July 17th, 2008, 12:42 am

I don't know if I'm the only one, but the recent increase in Gold members has made me realize how low the contrast is in their names against the background with the light theme.

I'm using the following rules in Operas' user.css to use the bronze color for gold and bump the bronze color down a few notches to compensate.

Code: [ Download ] [ Select ]
a[style="color: #cfb52b;"]
{
    color: #97842d !important;
}
a[style="color: #97842d;"]
{
    color: #540 !important;
}
  1. a[style="color: #cfb52b;"]
  2. {
  3.     color: #97842d !important;
  4. }
  5. a[style="color: #97842d;"]
  6. {
  7.     color: #540 !important;
  8. }


I imagine if I was using the dark theme my alterations would actually make it worse though.


Anyway, as you can see it's not really a problem for me anymore. I mainly just wanted to stash this little piece of CSS in case I need it on someone elses computer or something. That and if anyone else is seeing it the same way I was. :D
Why yes, yes I am.
  • Anonymous
  • Bot
  • No Avatar
  • Joined: 25 Feb 2008
  • Posts: ?
  • Loc: Ozzuland
  • Status: Online

Post July 17th, 2008, 12:42 am

Post July 17th, 2008, 2:32 am

I can see the gold names, but it does need a bit of squinting for me to make it out properly ... maybe because of my high resolution mixed with the fact that the gold is very light in contrast to the background ...
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(awesome|excellent|extraordinary)$ RT
  • Bigwebmaster
  • Site Admin
  • Site Admin
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Dec 20, 2002
  • Posts: 7349
  • Loc: Seattle, WA
  • Status: Offline

Post July 17th, 2008, 7:13 am

Yeah my problem is I need to find a value that works good for both the light and dark themes for the bronze and gold values. The writers of phpbb3 made the mistake that you have to hardcode those color values in which means its fixed across multiple themes. Would be nice to just use classes in there instead then I could make it look perfect on both.
Ozzu Hosting - Want your website on a fast server like Ozzu?
Contact US for more information about our plans and rates
  • spork
  • HB
  • Silver Member
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Sep 22, 2003
  • Posts: 5483
  • Loc: Rochester, NY
  • Status: Offline

Post July 17th, 2008, 7:49 am

Perhaps you could do something like make the background of the username gold, but keep the username itself black?
How to Maintain Simple, Static Pages in a CakePHP Application
EEEEEEEEE! It's here!!

Post Information

  • Total Posts in this topic: 4 posts
  • Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 6 guests
  • You cannot post new topics in this forum
  • You cannot reply to topics in this forum
  • You cannot edit your posts in this forum
  • You cannot delete your posts in this forum
  • You cannot post attachments in this forum
 
 

© Unmelted Enterprises 1998-2009. Driven by phpBB © 2001-2009 phpBB Group.