solasluaith

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by solasluaith 4y ago
I’m glad you enjoy it! If it’s not the actual design goals that work for you, it might also just be the fact that even the enhanced contrast versions are overall relatively low contrast compared to many other themes. Often times “just eno
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by solasluaith 4y ago
Thank you for this succinct explanation, that’s pretty much exactly what I was aiming for! Would you be okay with me adapting the explanation for the README at some point?
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by solasluaith 4y ago
Just on the last point, I’d be interested to know what scientific ways to construct CVD-friendly colour maps you mean. I’m aware of all the continuous colour maps for visualisations and these are pretty much “solved”, but for discrete, cate
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by solasluaith 4y ago
I actually think that in overall perceptual difference, using hue and chroma only is in the same ballpark as luminance only. The relationship between colours would also be totally different as they are arranged on a line vs a circle/po
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by solasluaith 4y ago
As I said below, I can totally see how taking the opposite approach of making different keywords more or less salient could be just as valid, if you prefer this over having an even, “text-like” appearance. I’m not aware of a fully coloured
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by solasluaith 4y ago
I just oriented myself on some other themes I found where comments were using a de-emphasised foreground colour. You could switch to one of the more high contrast versions but I can totally see how it would potentially make sense to use the
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by solasluaith 4y ago
As mentioned in my original post, the theme for sure needs significant work and could be improved a lot. I know my way around colour science and typography, but not around UI design at all and I’m still a novice programmer. I’m glad I achie
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by solasluaith 4y ago
I feel like you have kind of missed the point here. I am doing everything else extra to make up for the lack of contrast in luminance if you read the documentation, but of course that can only do so much. The reason to choose uniform lumi
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by solasluaith 4y ago
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoy them!
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by solasluaith 4y ago
That’s the point though, these colours are great because they have (almost) uniform perceptual differences and that is what I was aiming for. Of course this means that “yellow” no longer looks like the (much brighter) yellow that we’re intu
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by solasluaith 4y ago
Yep, that’s exactly how those came to be — as many colours in as short a snippet as possible. I honestly haven’t put much thought into “marketing” the theme yet and I would want to properly think about how to best do the highlighting before
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by solasluaith 4y ago
I’m actually working on another project where I’m trying to design fully optimized categorical colour palettes for people with colour vision deficiency, so I’m fully aware of this issue. When trying to encode highlighting with only chroma a
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by solasluaith 4y ago
Good catch, that is an issue with the VSCode extension, apparently it’s using the colour for comments (which is purposefully low contrast) for plain text when it should be using the main foreground colour. I’ll try to look into that! Also,
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by solasluaith 4y ago
Thank you! I’m claiming it is an improvement in terms of usability, simply because Solarised wasn’t designed with these properties in mind. Whether it’s significant everyone needs to judge for themselves. I personally was mostly annoyed b
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Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light(github.com)
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