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The point isn't to reduce the contrast, it's to use contrast based on hue and less on value. Accessibility is the real concern. Solarized fails many of the che
by SippinLean 6y ago
The point isn't to reduce the contrast, it's to use contrast based on hue and less on value.
Accessibility is the real concern. Solarized fails many of the checks for accessible text under standards such as WCAG 2.0.
- BeetleB 6y ago> The point isn't to reduce the contrast, it's to use contrast based on hue instead of value. It's not one or the other. It's both: > Solarized reduces brightness contrast but, unlike many low contrast colorschemes, retains contrasting hues
- mrob 6y agoHue contrast is objectively worse than brightness contrast because human cone cells are lower resolution than rod cells. This is the reason chroma subsampling is used in lossy video/image compression.