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"Never make the text color of labels grey," Honestly surprised GitHub did this. I've worked with software where a user picks a color for something that render

• hinkley 4y ago
  The problem is that everyone says this but then nobody defines 'grey'. It's been a while since I've done UX but I remember a couple of rules of thumb involving projectors (if you work on project management tools it is a certainty that your tool will be used in anger on a projector, and shitty UI in an emotionally charged room is a toxic cocktail). Anything greater than #eee is indistinguishable from white, and anything less than #222 is indistinguishable from black. In the days before font weights actually worked, you could do three font weights by mixing #222, #444, and bold. So that's a third of the greyscale range that isn't grey, at least, and it also misses other mostly-grey colors, and a bunch of shades of blue. Which I think is a long way of saying it's not grey that's the problem, it's low-contrast that's the problem. While grey is heavily represented in that set of colors, it's not all of them, and it might not even be half of them.
  • Dylan16807 4y ago
    That's not the problem here, where they clearly defined the goal colors as 000 and FFF, but the math fails sometimes.
• keyle 4y ago
  It's fine, they don't use grey, they use gray. /s
• hummus_bae 4y ago
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• kevincox 4y ago
  I think this is a bug. I'm pretty sure the calculations are meant to flip from black to white in an instant. But the tools provided make that very difficult.