Gold Text On Light Background, can we change it?

[BlackSpectre]

Hello all!

 

I've been running across wiki pages lately (they might have been around for a long time) that use light gold text against a light gray background. It's very difficult to see. There's not enough contrast between the color of the text and the background. Can we change this practice, and may I correct it when I see it? Here's what a page looks like now...

 

 

Some options could be to italicize the notes like so:

 

 

or maybe change the text color to a dark blue like so:

 

 

Looks like the gold color used is part of a template {{gold|}}. To change it to dark blue all that would have to be done is to change the color "gold" to "dark blue".

 

To italicize, I could create a templated named "em" to make it easy to italicize things.

 

So what do you think?

 

UPDATE: the "em" template is now made!

Edited December 8, 2024 by BlackSpectre
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[Lunar Ronin]

Dark blue would most likely create the opposite problem, where it's hard to read when in dark mode.

[BlackSpectre]

Dark mode. Right. That would definitely be true. How would I see the wiki in dark mode? 

 

So italics then?

[Lunar Ronin]

Scroll all the way down to the very bottom of the wiki.  You'll see "Privacy policy     About the unofficial Homecoming Wiki     Disclaimers" then "Dark mode."  Click on that.

 

Italics, or maybe a more neutral color like a green?

[Felderburg]

I am in favor of black italics. Visible on both settings without worrying about how a single color looks against either.

I definitely agree with OP, the gold on white is really bad. It also doesn't show up that well in darkmode—but a user shouldn't havce to switch to dark mode just to read something regardless.

[Mathew322]

What about Red? Red looks good on both Light and Dark Mode? Unless Red is being used for something else on most pages?

[BlackSpectre]

Oddly, red is the color used when quoting a dev, and you can find it in the various Quote templates. It’s a leftover from paragonwiki but red to me is a warning color. Like “Don’t click this button or your toon will self destruct!” 
 

I don’t actually know how exactly dark mode works, which means I’ll need to do a little more research before anything is decided. 

[BlackSpectre]

On 12/7/2024 at 6:04 PM, Lunar Ronin said:

Dark blue would most likely create the opposite problem, where it's hard to read when in dark mode.

I found out this is not true! After doing a little research, I discovered that when the wiki goes into dark mode, it INVERTS the brightness (from dark to light, and from light to dark) and changes the colors into their complimentary colors. It then flips the complimentary colors to the opposite side of the color wheel. It results in some weird approximation of the color. So none of the colors we see on in light mode will be reproduced exactly in dark mode. This is why when we make text red, for example, it turns into a weird off-red pink color in dark mode. 

 

In general, the lighter the text color, the darker that color will be in dark mode. Conversely, the darker the color, the lighter the color will be in dark mode. So dark blue turns out to be a very bright blue in dark mode. 

 

Rule of Thumb: 

AVOID LIGHT COLORS FOR TEXT

 

Here's what the notes using dark blue looks like in dark mode:

 

 

Here is a cool contrast checker that might be useful, however it does not use the CSS filter that dark mode uses at the wiki, so the colors will be different than what we see on the wiki. https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

 

Edited 4 hours ago by BlackSpectre