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Propaganda by photoshop clone developers who don't want to design opacity layers into their interfaces. In all seriousness, if everything was high contrast, ev
by bigohms 15y ago
Propaganda by photoshop clone developers who don't want to design opacity layers into their interfaces.
In all seriousness, if everything was high contrast, everything would be SCREAMING AT YOU FOR ATTENTION. Webdesigners: use your personal judgement when identifying what should be high contrast (higher visual recognition priority) and what should be lower contrast (lower visual recognition priority) and all will be well.
FYI: the HN example on your site actually makes perfect sense. The high contrast content is almost always the thing I consider most important. Index: Titles of threads, Subpages: Comments.
- tripzilch 15y ago> if everything was high contrast, everything would be SCREAMING AT YOU FOR ATTENTION Simply not true. There's many more factors besides contrast that determine attention focus. See this excellent series on gestalt principles of design: http://www.andyrutledge.com/gestalt-principles-1-figure-ground-relationship.php http://www.andyrutledge.com/gestalt-principles-1-figure-grou... (it's five parts you need to click to get to the other 4) Also see http://24ways.org/2007/typesetting-tables http://24ways.org/2007/typesetting-tables which shows a very nice way of adding structure to a table using contrast, instead of making everything scream for attention equally. (Additionally, the site used a different layout when this article was written in 2007, and currently it seems 24ways is a good example of low-contrast crappy readability :) )