Makeover
7:55pm - 7 November 2007 - 147 views -Posted in: Daily
Yep. A major departure from the traditional white-background-black-text colour palette. I wanted to maintain a white background but it’s rather difficult to couple it with orange due to lack of contrast. Since I haven’t done dark background designs in a very, very long time, I figured I’d give it a shot.
I also had to wrestle with the idea of having smaller, sleeker fonts versus larger, more readable ones. I opted for the latter - I still value usability over aesthetics. That said, it seems that this colour scheme is not very well received.
Let me know what you think. Suggestions and comments would be highly appreciated.
nice. your orange looks good in black.
Comment by CincauHangus — 8:57 pm, November 7, 2007 #
Thanks! I’m still concerned of the readability. Will see what others say.
Comment by Tze Lun — 8:58 pm, November 7, 2007 #
Looks good to me. Orange looks a bit red from afar but…:P Looks good to me!
Comment by Sam — 12:05 am, November 8, 2007 #
The orange was a little pale at first, decided to intensify it a little. Thanks for the comments
Comment by Tze Lun — 12:09 am, November 8, 2007 #
Are you using white fonts? The contrast seems to be a little too high. Wanna switch to gray? Kinda getting doe eyed reading it.. but the orange is fine!
Comment by William — 4:08 pm, November 9, 2007 #
Nope, not white fonts. Very, very light grey. But thanks for the heads up! And the comments too.
Anybody having the same problem?
Comment by Tze Lun — 5:49 pm, November 9, 2007 #
hmmm, de words seem 2 b dancing….not sure if it’s de words’ problem or coz i just oni poked my eye out….hmm…
Comment by babedevil — 6:18 pm, November 9, 2007 #
Dancing?! If you “just only poked your eye out”… I think it might be you. But why in the world did you poke your eye out?!
Comment by Tze Lun — 8:33 pm, November 9, 2007 #
it looks good, but only for short entry… definitely not suitable for a long entry, can feel the words are ‘moving’ when reading it… can’t concentrate
Comment by Howard — 12:35 am, November 10, 2007 #
Point noted. Will darken the fonts a little to see if it helps.
Comment by Tze Lun — 11:33 am, November 10, 2007 #
So dark ><
Comment by Eqym — 11:58 am, November 10, 2007 #
This is so tricky.
Comment by Tze Lun — 12:08 pm, November 10, 2007 #
looks ok to me, thumbs up!
Comment by jeewang — 3:53 pm, November 10, 2007 #
Thanks!
Comment by Tze Lun — 2:02 am, November 11, 2007 #
I feel dizzy…
Comment by Ivan — 12:33 pm, November 11, 2007 #
I don’t suppose it’s caused by this site, is it?
Comment by Tze Lun — 5:32 pm, November 11, 2007 #
Nice change! You coded this from scratch?
Ahh. And your love for sans serif fonts still holds, I see. Very, very readable.
Comment by Eli James — 2:35 pm, November 14, 2007 #
Thanks! I did the usual tinkering with the stylesheet, the template remained unchanged because I wanted to stick to the 2-column layout. It was actually based on the previous theme (the cat one).
I don’t remember the last time I used serif fonts for web designs
Comment by Tze Lun — 3:04 pm, November 14, 2007 #