Color contrast issue in Celerity

[branchandroot]

A support/bug item was put in by a user who found the cream background color, in the Celerity site scheme, difficult to read on. I wanted to bounces this around here and ask if anyone else has had or heard of similar problems.

If it's an isolated issue, it will probably be best to deal with it via that user's browser styles. If it's more wide-spread, then the scheme should be changed.

The current background color is #f9f9f0 and the text color is #222211. Should these be edged further apart? I would like to strike some kind of happy medium between too-high and too-low contrast, though this may, in the end, not be possible.

Comments

[forthwritten]

I personally don't use Celerity because I find the colour scheme too difficult to work with. The problem I have with it isn't the text colour on the background colour, but the visited and unvisited link colours on the background colour (as for usernames on the profile page) and the colour of links on the comment headers (e.g. the username).

I also find the font kind of awkward, but I suspect that's more my issue than a design issue.

[branchandroot]

The brightness of the link colors perhaps? I can't take the visited down too much farther without making it hard to distinguish as a link, but I could probably do something with the unvisited color.

*wry* Of course, no one scheme is going to be right for everyone, which is why there are others in the pipe.

*sighs* Yeah, I'm actually really not fond of arial myself; verdana is much nicer. Unfortunately, PCs render verdana as huge, while Macs render it more in line with other fonts so until the browser-detection script gets cranked in there's no way to use that one without screwing up one side or the other. This is one of my personal pet peeves of web design.

[forthwritten]

It's more than it's too low contrast anyway - there's not enough distinction between the link colour and the background colour. Perhaps switching it to green or brown might work, but I don't think beige has enough contrast and making it brighter won't necessarily fix it.

[branchandroot]

Ah. *nods* Yeah, you're probably going to want one of the other schemes, then.