By now, you have more than likely noticed that the story site has gotten a little make-over. I just felt like doing something aesthetically different and am relatively pleased with the outcome. I have noticed that there isn't a whole lot of difference between the color of the text and the background. If you are having trouble distinguishing the text, please let me know.
Onward, to the early retirement of the previous banner:
I love the color scheme. Mmm gray and taupe. But I admit my first thought was "the text is too dark". :-)
ReplyDeleteIf I may unleash my inner pedantic Web developer, for body text the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines recommended a text-to-background contrast ratio of at least 4.5 to 1... and you have 1.48:1 there with #333333. For your background color (#111311) you would need at least a #7d7d7d text color to "pass". ;-)
Also I LOVE that new banner. The way the red light is licking at his face like that. Angry little devil, isn't he? :-)
Heh, just looking at it, I thought to myself that the amount of contrast between the text and the background isn't enough but I'm in love with the background color and it would be an unimaginable pain to change the text color at this point. For every block of text, I have the text color written into the tags. So unless you have a magical web-lady solution (and I probably should have asked you this days ago, really :p), I would have to go into each chapter and change the tags on each block of text, which would be like building a sand castle with tweezers.
ReplyDeleteYou'd be angry too if you had spent most of your life as a medical experiment. :p
That's insane!
ReplyDeleteDoesn't blogspot let you create custom CSS stylesheets? If I View Source on your page I can see some "template" stuff in the header.
But you're stuck now, because an inline style definition like you have on each block of text will trump whatever is written in the stylesheet. I can only shed a tear for you. Next time, feel free to ask. >8)
Perhaps in forthcoming chapters you can leave out the inline styles?
I do LIKE the colors, mind. And I can, in fact, read the text... which is what really counts. :-)
Oh yeah, there's a template. But as far as I can tell, the little tags that I put on the individual entries override the template. Which is what you just said. Hehe, I should have read the full comment before I started typing.
ReplyDeleteI'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place with this because Blogger's system being what it is, if I don't put in my own style definitions, Blogger will generate whack ass lines of superfluous coding that will result in my text being in all kinds of different fonts of different sizes. And when I say "different sizes" I mean that before I started using my own style definitions, it was not uncommon for me to find text in 80pt font after I clicked "publish".
Anyhoo, I have begun the process of changing the text to (153, 153, 153) in the back chapters. O douleur!
Thanks, Lothere! I like it and can read it too but I know that there is probably someone out there who would have difficulty.