[Breeze] [Bug 381288] Breeze could use higher-contrast text by default (tweaked color scheme attached)

[Jens Reuterberg]

You do have a good point. Perfect black on light-light grey is the preferred 
one... (although as a print-monkey I need to say "Bright Yellow on Dark Grey" 
or the other print monkeys may get angry ;) ) I worry about the inverted 
colour scheme though and icon effects.

I propose this - lets create a secondary theme and then try to do some proper 
testing. I mean the tricky bit is tying up the bag as it where (because we 
don't want #000000 background for breeze dark) as the colour scheme is such a 
huge chunk of the identity in so many other areas (from mascots to print 
material, webpages etc) - will the gain from swapping to #000000 in 
readability justify eventual issues there? Or am I just bikeshedding?

We also need to see if we are creating a huge problem for the developers in 
the future... so we would need to have a dev in on it to supervise so we don't 
create a mess

Sebas (et al) can we sort of hold off on this while we drag poor Nate into the 
VDG room for a chat?

On Sunday, 18 June 2017 15.42.54 CEST Nate Graham wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381288
> 
> Nate Graham <pointedstick at zoho.com> changed:
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>            What    |Removed                     |Added
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> Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
>          Resolution|WONTFIX                     |---
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> --- Comment #6 from Nate Graham <pointedstick at zoho.com> ---
> Thanks for the comments, everyone.
> 
> I have to disagree that this is a matter of subjectivity or taste--this is
> just my preference and other people might not like it. There are objective,
> scientifically derived principles governing things like eyestrain and
> readability:
> 
> https://www.nngroup.com/articles/low-contrast/
> http://www.tinhat.com/usability/color.html
> http://contrastrebellion.com/
> http://universalusability.com/access_by_design/text/contrast.html
> 
> From the above articles, you can see that the *most* readable, usable text
> is 100% black on a not-quite-100%-white background, since pure white can be
> blinding on bright screens. Breeze is *so close* with the pleasant light
> gray backgrounds, but the text itself needs to be a bit bolder to reap the
> rewards of maximum readability. This will not present a "harsh" contrast;
> on the contrary, it will make the text *more attractive*, not less. Again,
> this is not my personal preference, but rather the result of decades of
> hard-earned usability investigation. I encourage you to read those
> articles.