try to limit contrast in colors

[Ekleog]

Design Feature Request

(sorry for both the tone of this issue and for not following the template, the reaction at #468 (comment) makes me want to not spend a minute more than strictly needed to convey information, given I'm going under the assumption it'll be closed non-sequitur)

Rant about the current site and my inability to actually read the text in a reasonable amount of time is available at #468 (comment).

Issue: The text is so small and un-contrasted that reading it is hard.

Ideas:

• Decrease the contrast between background colors compared to the contrast between background and foreground colors
• Decrease the font size/impact of titles compared to the main text font size/impact

Overall, the proposal in #468 is, to me, much more readable.

[lbolla]

There seem to be no semantic associated with colors either. E.g. blue is used in the second banner ("Build it in Rust"), but then the same color is used for buttons in the "Get involved" section. I find it confusing.
Moreover, the same color used for buttons in all sections is used to underline the header, making it look like it's clickable.
Headlines are difficult to read because they are stroke through by those colorful lines.

[ashleygwilliams]

We are not currently looking to overhaul the color or font scheme at this time. If you have small actionable tweaks you think we can make to improve this, I encourage you to file other issues.

[Ekleog]

@ashleygwilliams What is a small actionable tweak? I gave you two. If you don't consider these small actionable tweaks, you may as well say that the design is not up to debate and just close the issue tracker on this repository, as it is effectively useless.

Anyway, looks like I was right to assume it would be closed non-sequitur.

[e-oz]

Hope you will excuse my tone as well, but you can use some browser addon/extension to customize CSS of sites you want. I understand black-and-white design is more readable, but really not all sites in the internet should be black and white.

[e-oz]

We are not currently looking to overhaul the color or font scheme at this time.

Is it really "beta"?

[Ekleog]

@e-oz This is not about black-and-white design, just about increasing the contrast between (text, background) compared to the contrast between (background1, background2), for the part about the colors.

@ashleygwilliams In case you assumed my point was about black-and-white, like @e-oz appears to have, could you consider reopening it? I really think the tweaks proposed here are minor and actionable, they're basically a minor color shift. If it's not, then I would love to hear what you consider minor and actionable style tweak, because I can't see anything more minor.

[ashleygwilliams]

hi @Ekleog ! i had thought so- but i will reopen to discuss just tweaks to some of the colors (bump them slightly darker or light)! sorry about that :)

[ashleygwilliams]

@e-oz yes this is a beta- which means we already went through an alpha (all members of any rust team or working group). in the beta we are looking to polish, not do major overhauls. let me know if i can clarify further.

[e-oz]

I got it from the first time, no need to be aggresive.

[ashleygwilliams]

renaming this issue as #524 covers the text size in a bit more detail