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Cool. I like it.
I would also sincerely suggest with Trope Finder and Media Finder and other main Administrivia links to be turned orange. In a way to differentiate with the regular Trope and works pages.
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I still want my night vision links to be green but now that disambigs are green this feature will probably never come back :(
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What about a Yellow Link?
bump.
Since my summer break is here, I have a ton more time to wrangle CSS and come up with a cool new design. For anyone who wants to see them, expect screenshots tomorrow (or soon).
There's beauty in even the smallest moments.
While I think most of the site's current colors are fine, it would be nice to have YMMV and WMG pages be blue again after so long.
I have a userscript to color them myself for now. Here's what I personally use, with the colors taken from the old site via the Wayback Machine, going back to 2010 and earlier:
YMMV / WMG / Fridge / Headscratchers / Tear Jerker: From Old YMMV
- document.body: #000053
- #main-content: #E6E6E6
Trivia / Just For Fun / Fanfic Recs: From Troper Tales
- document.body: #F2F0BE
- #main-content: #E7E7E8
Nightmare Fuel: From Old Darth Wiki
- document.body: #000000
- #main-content: #DDDDDD
And while I don't have the old Sugar Wiki's background color used for anything, I have it stored just in case I find a use for it: #FDB8DB
Edited by LendriMujina
The current WMG layout isn’t too bad. It certainly looks fitting for the namespace.
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Eight years ago
, ~SatoshiBakura made a wish for different site colors, which ~kory closed last year, saying we should make a second thread to vote on color changes. Since I'm running a custom stylesheet, I experimented with some colors and I found some that looked good. (All strings preceded by "#" are HTML hex color codes.)
Note: Most of what I wrote is similar to what Satoshi wrote, with some minor fixes for color specifications and stuff like that. I know TV Tropes was redesigned in 2018, so if you see stuff no longer relevant, point it out to me and I'll delete it.
Corollary: I did look at some old 2016/17-era pages on the Wayback Machine, so these colors shouldn't be too screwed up. Also, note that I will post screenshots to demonstrate what I am thinking once more people have seen this post.
Font change
Font: Open Sans (the font I currently run on my userstyle). I'm biased, though. I'll run a comparison and show the screenshots in a bit.Normal Pages
Grey headers: Make them blue (either #004aab, #00204a, or #00306f).As Satoshi said, the primary color of the site is (or used to be) blue.
Negative space: Make it light blue (either #00484d or #00124d).
Footers: Same color as the grey headers (either #004aab, #00204a, or #00306f).
YMMV Pages:
Top header: Make it dark blue (same color as the new headers). Alternatively, make it orange (#ab5f00) again.Grey header: Make it dark blue or orange (#ab5f00). The gray button (formerly green) is OK, I think.
Space around text: Not sure what Satoshi meant by this in 2016.
Negative space: Make it dark grey or light orange (#ff710087)?
Footer: Same color as top header.
Links: Should be orange (#ab5f00 or #ba4500?) when highlighted. (Alternatively, you could make them all orange, but...)
Subpage tabs: The proposal in 2016 was to "make the outlines orange and the words dark blue." I believe that meant the fill for the subpage buttons should be orange and the words dark blue, so, say, #ffb938 for the buttons and #00008d for the words? Alternatively, if we wanted the blue aesthetic, we could do dark blue for the buttons and orange for the wording.
Sugar Wiki:
Top header: In 2016, the proposal would have made the top header blue-green and the "random" button yellow. However, given that the appearance of the website has been updated, something like this might work (#990053 for the header bars). We don't need to worry about the "random" button.Bluish green headers: Not applicable to the 2018-era design.
Negative space: Make it lighter pink.
Links: Should be pink when highlighted. (Alternatively, you can make them all pink, but...)
Nightmare Fuel:
Top header: Make it dark red (#8b0000). Make the red "random media" button black.Space around text: Again, not sure what Satoshi meant or whether its applicable.
Negative space: Make it grey.
What say you?