A change of colours...
16 years ago
The colour I had been using in my posts, saddlebrown, worked fine on the "light" FA template, but was difficult to read on the "dark" FA template. So I have tested some different colours, and whittled it down to the final two contestants: "Chocolate" and "Peru".
I would appreciate your feedback as to which of the two paragraphs below you find is an easier colour to read, or if you feel the same about them, and also which template you use (light or dark). Thanks!
Chocolate has become one of the most popular food types and flavors in the world. Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and hearts on Valentine's Day. Chocolate is also used in cold and hot beverages, to produce chocolate milk and hot chocolate.
Peru is a representative democratic republic divided into 25 regions. Its geography varies from the arid plains of the Pacific coast to the peaks of the Andes mountains and the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin. It is a country with a high Human Development Index score and a poverty level around 36%. Its main economic activities include agriculture, fishing, mining, and manufacturing of products such as textiles.
I would appreciate your feedback as to which of the two paragraphs below you find is an easier colour to read, or if you feel the same about them, and also which template you use (light or dark). Thanks!
Chocolate has become one of the most popular food types and flavors in the world. Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and hearts on Valentine's Day. Chocolate is also used in cold and hot beverages, to produce chocolate milk and hot chocolate.
Peru is a representative democratic republic divided into 25 regions. Its geography varies from the arid plains of the Pacific coast to the peaks of the Andes mountains and the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin. It is a country with a high Human Development Index score and a poverty level around 36%. Its main economic activities include agriculture, fishing, mining, and manufacturing of products such as textiles.
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Chocolate is sexy, go with chocolate.
The code works like this:
[color=colorname]PUT TEXT HERE[/color]
Basic colornames work (e.g. red, blue, green, etc.) but to get more specific ones (whoever thought "Peru" would be a colour?!?) use this site to get the colornames:
http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html
The hexadecimal codes used to work on this site but they no longer do. Only the color names that have (SVG) next to them seem to work now. So for instance, on this page you can scroll down and see about halfway down Chocolate in the first column and Saddlebrown and Peru in the second column.
As an example, I'll use the last colour in the third column of this page:
[color=greenyellow]This text is greenyellow which is obnoxious on the light template but nice on the dark template[/color]
makes:
This text is greenyellow which is obnoxious on the light template but nice on the dark template
Very informative. I'd prefer Peru for the text and Chocolate for you