Text colours

[Jubal]

So, for me, some of the standard text colours in the BBCode are really hard to read with our standard dark theme (and I don't think many people use the Exilian Light theme, though I should probably try and work on making that more accessible at some point).

For the record, here are the standard colours:
black
red
yellow
pink
green
orange
purple
blue
beige
brown
teal
navy
maroon
lime green
white

I'm wondering if it would be worth lightening the blue, purple, red, and possibly also brown to make them more readable and thus useable? I don't know how easy that is, but presumably there's a BBCode definitions file somewhere that one can tweak. What do people think?

[Glaurung]

I'm not sure whether this is technically possible - a quick dig through the Admin menus hasn't turned up any obvious options, so at best this is likely to require editing the theme CSS files directly. Also, it looks as if these colour names are defined as specific RGB codes in the HTML standard(s) - see Wikipedia and W3Schools - so we might not be able to change them at all.

Further, if we brighten the colours to make them contrast more with the dark theme background, then they will contrast less with the light theme background. Though if the CSS is theme-specific then this won't be a problem.

[Jubal]

The BBCode interpretation schema, wherever that is, should definitely allow the "blue" menu option to print e.g. "#5599FF" instead of "blue", when "blue" is selected from the dropdown. But yes, it would be an actual software mod not something that could be done via the cpanel.

Point noted about the light theme, but a) I think only about one account is logged as using that and b) I think we could make them a bit lighter without making that unreadable in any way. It would require testing in both setups.

[The Seamstress]

I'm resurrecting this thread because I think it's the right place to post this - since I'm using the light theme (and I'm probably currently the only one here who does?) I have a hard time reading the lighter text (like yellow & pink), and the beige and white ones are nearly invisible...

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Just wanted to tell you, though it seems this has already been discussed in the past - it's nothing really dramatic or urgent, but if it could be changed some day, that would make things a little easier for me (and potentially others who'd like to use the light theme).

[Jubal]

Ooh, OK. Hm, that may be tricky. To check some things:

• Are most of the times you're finding this a problem member names? Other than those there shouldn't be a lot of forced-colour text on most of the forum.
• You're using Skyclad as your light theme right?

[The Seamstress]

Yes, it's the member names. I haven't encountered anything else so far that wasn't readable, as far as I can remember.

And yes, I'm using Skyclad!

[Jubal]

I'll have a think. The member colour link mod that we use to do the name colours has an "override everything" setup, but I may be able to do something janky with the CSS to override it in turn...

[The Seamstress]

Thanks!