Monday, December 31, 2007

Guild color chat testing

From my testing, the following colors work best on light and dark backgrounds, have minimal interruption on the screen, and do not significantly conflict with existing used colors. I have ordered them by my preference.
  • Blue1: bold but not too intrusive (same as "-----Welcome to the Awnage Rivan Warriors Client-----" and the blue guild text of the console picture)
  • Green2: a tad bit too strong of a contrast (same color as the OpenGL "GL_ARB... using it" when first starting EL)
  • Purple1: slightly wimpy looking (same as "This is your X minute warning for the coming hour")
  • Red1: pink. enough said. (same as "Connecting to Server...")
The dark colors (like yellow4) are almost too dark on a dark background, and they display too much black gunk around their text on a light background (as can be seen in the first to panels of the image block). We will have to face the fact that until we have better scaling fonts like truetype, it will be very difficult to have an ideal font on both backgrounds.

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