RE: This Wiki Implementation

["Jerome Vuarand" <jerome.vuarand@...>]

Petite Abeille wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Philippe Lhoste wrote:
>> First impression (home page) on the wiki: looks clean. But I am not
>> fan of light gray links, I would use this color for visited links
>> instead. Now, that's a question of taste, and perhaps because I use
>> this color for comments in my code... Just a minor quibble.
> 
> Yes, the default link color palette seems to be, hmmm, problematic to
> some :) 
> 
> a:link      { color: rgb( 153, 153, 153 ); text-decoration: none; }
> a:visited   { color: rgb( 102, 102, 102 ); text-decoration: none; }
> a:hover     { color: rgb( 051, 051, 051 ); text-decoration: none; }
> a:active    { color: rgb( 204, 204, 204 ); text-decoration: none; }
> 
> http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/etc/custom-screen.css
> 
> Any proposal to change those colors, while keeping them understated,
> warmly welcome :) 

I don't know if there are any webdesign rules about that, but I think
you should keep a minimum 50% of the luminance scale as a contrast
between the content and the background. So with a white background
nothing should be lighter than rgb(127,127,127) (averaging components).
For example if you want four gray scales use #777, #555, #333, #111.