[Camps-users] New website is live

[Brian J. Miller]

Jon Jensen wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Brian J. Miller wrote:
> 
>>> Great news, but DevCamps needs to reconsider their site design. The 
>>> greenish font is unreadable on the reddish background.
>> As a color deficient user I'd give that a giant +1, I checked out the 
>> site over the weekend and the previous color while hard to read was at 
>> least noticeable, with the current red/green scheme I can't tell that 
>> there are links at all.
> 
> I am red/green colorblind and had a hard time reading the previous blue 
> color (which only you & Ben & Steph saw, Brian).
> 

Just to be clear I can *read* the green just fine but the text is not 
differentiated as anything other than more text (so I wouldn't notice 
that they are links that I should potentially traverse).

The blue I considered not that readable but at least I could tell they 
were links.

> I can read the current green fine but don't love it.
> 
> Marko suggested a lighter green with a drop shadow, as in the middle of 
> this screenshot:
> 
> http://www.devcamps.org/tmp/devcamp-example.png
> 
> What do you all think of that?
> 

The drop shadow is a nice addition, though on text that small I'm not 
sure I'd notice it as a link vs. not a link. Making the text lighter 
probably made the issue worse rather than better. I'm pretty far on the 
deficient scale :-), so maybe what I would expect (read: need) is beyond 
what the common user does. You would have to go to a significantly 
darker shade of green before the differentiation between plain text and 
links would show up for me. Probably just a problem with starting with 
that shade of red (or any red really).

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Brian J. Miller
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