Moiety Colors: Wow

[Throne3d]

For reference, it looks like this when I flip the colors of the inside vs the border for my userbox, and that border is really kinda nasty like that (at least in my opinion right now, though I guess I might grow to love it).

Reducing the opacity of the border to 50% gives this, which is a bit better, and making it gray like default looks like this.

[Kappa]

CSS

---

.post-info-box.author-marri { background-color: #ffffff; }
.post-info-box.author-throne3d { background-color: #ffffff; }
.post-info-box a { color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); }
.post-info-box { color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0,8); }

.post-info-box { border: 3px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); }
.post-info-box.author-marri { border: 3px solid rgba(191, 64, 64, 0.5); }
.post-info-box.author-throne3d { border: 3px solid rgba(104, 40, 96, 0.5); }

.author-marri .post-icon { background-color: rgba(191, 64, 64, 0.4); }
.author-throne3d .post-icon { background-color: rgba(150, 0, 24, 0.4); }

.author-marri .post-character { background-color: rgba(191, 64, 64, 0.7); }
.author-throne3d .post-character { background-color: rgba(104, 40, 96, 0.7); }

.author-marri .post-screenname { background-color: rgba(191, 64, 64, 0.9); }
.author-throne3d .post-screenname { background-color: rgba(104, 40, 96, 0.9); }

.author-marri .post-author { background-color: rgba(191, 64, 64, 1); }
.author-throne3d .post-author { background-color: rgba(150, 0, 24, 1); }

It's not the most beautiful thing in the entire world, but I think it works okay. And it's dead easy to auto-generate, although I'd have to figure something out for people with a dark secondary and a light primary or vice versa. (I just fiddled with it a bit and 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 is a better sequence of transparencies than 0.4, 0.7, 0.9, but I'm too lazy to re-screencap it.)

(Also the site doesn't actually have author-specific CSS classes on the infoboxes, I had to add those.)

[pedromvilar]

I think "replacing primary instead of complementing it" just brings us back to "colourspace is too small for glowfic".

Not if the replacement only happens on colour conflicts, like throne and marri. If the two authors' colours aren't similar there's no need for the secondary there.

[DanielH]

Ooh, I like that option, Kappa. You’re right about it not being the prettiest option, but it works and isn’t too bad.

[jalapeno_dude]

I think "replacing primary instead of complementing it" just brings us back to "colourspace is too small for glowfic".

Not if the replacement only happens on colour conflicts, like throne and marri. If the two authors' colours aren't similar there's no need for the secondary there.

Yeah, this is what I had intended the point of having secondary colors to be in the first place.

[Kappa]

That sounds like it would be both difficult to implement and confusing to decipher.

[Throne3d]

I'd expect it to just be a quick toggle of "Use secondary moiety in this thread", and it wouldn't need to be decipherable as your moiety, just as not the other author's moiety, wouldn't it? People can look at the usernames and then associate the colors with that username for that thread, and it's only two different configurations that it can use, so presumably people would get to know them too.

[Kappa]

Honestly at that point I'd say the fact that the author name appears in every comment infocard should be enough. I'm not that committed to having moiety colours appear on the constellation, though I do really appreciate them in the daily reports and I think the flags will be a big help there.

[Lambda]

What if the primary color is used as the infocard background, and the secondary color is used as the text/link color, and we require these to be sufficiently contrasting? (Links could be distinguished from nonlink text by underlining, As Is Tradition.)

[Kappa]

What's the desired advantage of this proposal? When I envision it, it doesn't look like it's working out well, but my imagination is not known for its scrupulously accurate HTML/CSS rendering capacity.