Wow, I got that wrong. 0x5D is roughly luminance 0.36f so will only work with bright backgrounds. Not dark or mid-tone backgrounds like we see.
So another aspect of this bug is that the background is a mid-grey, which does not contrast with text that is #5d5d5d. The designed colours however seem to be more like #5d5d5d text on a white background, which would provide adequate contrast. So any buttons whose backgrounds are mid-tone grey either need black text, or a much lighter background to support mid-tone text like #5d5d5d. I think our design docs promote the latter. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1372530 Title: Button text color doesn't offer great contrast, and looks disabled when it's not Status in Ubuntu UX: New Status in ubuntu-ui-toolkit package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I'll attach some pictures to show what I mean. We have a visual design for the welcome wizard when you first turn on the device (see attached design.jpg). It shows a combo box that is hard to achieve with the current toolkit. (As an aside, there is no joiner between the drop down button and the rest of the widget in design.jpg. I don't know how to do that with the current SDK... But that's not the point of this bug.) My real problem is text color. By default, I get a kind of grey background color and light text. It's not the easiest to see. And this is the default! See default.png When I set a white background to get closer to the visual design, I still get a light text. Which is also hard to see. See white.png I seem to have no control over the color of the text. In ButtonStyle.qml, I see: textColor: ColorUtils.luminance(button.color) <= 0.85 && !(stroke && !pressed) ? "#FFFFFF" : "#888888" Which does not provide much control nor the possibility for a particularly dark text color. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1372530/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
