You do have a good point. Perfect black on light-light grey is the preferred one... (although as a print-monkey I need to say "Bright Yellow on Dark Grey" or the other print monkeys may get angry ;) ) I worry about the inverted colour scheme though and icon effects.
I propose this - lets create a secondary theme and then try to do some proper testing. I mean the tricky bit is tying up the bag as it where (because we don't want #000000 background for breeze dark) as the colour scheme is such a huge chunk of the identity in so many other areas (from mascots to print material, webpages etc) - will the gain from swapping to #000000 in readability justify eventual issues there? Or am I just bikeshedding? We also need to see if we are creating a huge problem for the developers in the future... so we would need to have a dev in on it to supervise so we don't create a mess Sebas (et al) can we sort of hold off on this while we drag poor Nate into the VDG room for a chat? On Sunday, 18 June 2017 15.42.54 CEST Nate Graham wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381288 > > Nate Graham <pointedst...@zoho.com> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Status|RESOLVED |UNCONFIRMED > Resolution|WONTFIX |--- > > --- Comment #6 from Nate Graham <pointedst...@zoho.com> --- > Thanks for the comments, everyone. > > I have to disagree that this is a matter of subjectivity or taste--this is > just my preference and other people might not like it. There are objective, > scientifically derived principles governing things like eyestrain and > readability: > > https://www.nngroup.com/articles/low-contrast/ > http://www.tinhat.com/usability/color.html > http://contrastrebellion.com/ > http://universalusability.com/access_by_design/text/contrast.html > > From the above articles, you can see that the *most* readable, usable text > is 100% black on a not-quite-100%-white background, since pure white can be > blinding on bright screens. Breeze is *so close* with the pleasant light > gray backgrounds, but the text itself needs to be a bit bolder to reap the > rewards of maximum readability. This will not present a "harsh" contrast; > on the contrary, it will make the text *more attractive*, not less. Again, > this is not my personal preference, but rather the result of decades of > hard-earned usability investigation. I encourage you to read those > articles.
