[ubuntu-art] Improper contrast in default theme?

[Michiel Sikma]

Hi all. I've always thought that the top bar of the default theme for 
Dapper looked a bit bright. I decided to throw the background color (the 
average of the gradient is #d5924c) into the Color Contrast Analyser and 
it came up with this:

"The difference in brightness between the two colours is not sufficient. 
The threshold is 125, and the result of the foreground and background 
colours is 96."

I kind of agree that the difference is just a little too small. I'm not 
sure if this theme is still in a state of development, but I'd like to 
recommend a small change to the top header to try and make the title of 
a window more legible: 
http://omega.avalanchestudios.net/personal/dropbox/usplash/_ubuntu_contrastchange.png 
(a screenshot from the Flight 7 wiki page with the top header of the 
window at -23% brightness +19% contrast; the average color of the orange 
part of the top header is now #c2701a).

Looking at it, it's actually a pretty big change. But really, I think 
that at least it looks more readable this way. Maybe we could discuss 
making a change into this direction.

Regards, Michiel