[ubuntu-art] Improper contrast in default theme?

[bvc]

Michiel Sikma <omega at avalanchestudios.net> wrote: 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
That's actually very close to what the titlbar originally was. It caused quite an uproar, and I only recall one person saying they preferred it after it was changed, but that doesn't mean many others didn't agree.

It also staggers away from the light menuitem/selection color which the current compliments.

If the issue is title readability, one thing that can be done is to add another light shadow, up and to the left.
x= -1
y= -1

Which is what I did in Unity and Gentle. So if they are used with very light colors, the title is still readable.

I've cc'd Mark, and Daniel with this reply.

Regards,
Billy

		
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