More geekery, this time about color
Between my new (and totally awesome) Photoshop book that I got my local library to purchase and things I’ve noticed lately with LJ, I’ve been thinking an awful lot about color.
The body of LJ entries in my style are white on black, versus the black-on-white or black-on-tan colors of many styles. So when someone copies text from somewhere and the black-text style is kept, it’s invisible unless I highlight it (and conversely, if someone’s trying to be clever with white text, I don’t even notice it). LJ icons with transparent backgrounds almost always end up looking weird to me, bacause they’re usually designed assuming white will be behind them.
On the other side, whenever I’m making a border or background in my LJ (as in the previous post), I have to be very conscious that it will likely be viewed on a completely different background. I -can’t- use a simple white, because no one will see it, or a simple black, because *I* won’t see it.
Worse, I can’t make any assumptions on what is high- or low-contrast, because a sunshine-yellow is a beacon on my screen, but barely visible on white.
So, I end up using saturated reds and blues, visible on either, or middle-grays.
It’s just a different experience from designing a page where you can rely on those things to remain constant.
I use yellow on black, so I have the sae issues with black text.
*grin*