Sprucing up Gradation Vertical

[foxfirefey]

Hey people, I'm sprucing up Gradation Vertical's appearance in places (with the bonus side effect of improving site themes in general). Bugs I have patches for or will shortly have patches for include:

Bug 878 - Inbox has tropo-red colours hard-coded -- This is where the folder you've selected in the inbox is pink no matter what.
Bug 1255 - Some settings text too dark in Gradation -- Some settings pages are black on black and not readable
Bug 2238 - Gradation Vertical Support unreadable or not dark schemed -- The Support area is not well themed and the Support Board nigh unreadable.
Bug 2243 - Adult content div box colors hardcoded -- not sure what colors to end up making these for all the different schemes (suggestions appreciated), but the adult content page has the warning box color hardcoded to something unreadable on Gradation Vertical.

If anybody else is using Gradation Vertical, please let me know if you run into any awkwardly styled spots not mentioned above.

Hopefully this will also help lead to Gradation Horizontal--denise has the mockups still, and the logo done for Gradation Vertical should work for Gradation Horizontal! The bug for that is here.

ETA: Other bugs filed:

Bug 2204 - RTE on update page does not display properly in gradation-vertical

Comments

[branchandroot]

*considering* Would it be a good idea, do you think, to just change the /link/ colors to something consistent and non-offensive? Those are the part that really clash worst, in most cases.

[foxfirefey]

Yeah, that's what I meant by subtle changes, heh. But, in Gradation's case, it's something of an accessibility issue in some ways, since some people need a light-on-dark to help prevent migraines and whatnot, so simply changing the link colors is not enough.

[branchandroot]

Seriously. That is, um. Dreadful. *somewhat embarrassed to have let that slip by*

[foxfirefey]

Don't be so hard on yourself, it's hard to check for everything!

[niqaeli]

I switched to Gradation the moment it went live and... yeah. I mean, super short-term, changing the link colours to something readable would be a start, but that's definitely still an awful lot of hard-coded light background. *wry*

(I personally keep a zappy bookmarklet on hand to magically make things readable, but it's always frustrating to have to hit it the second a page loads, etc.)

[foxfirefey]

Actually, my patch makes the support area in Gradation look more like this:

[niqaeli]

Oh, that's definitely much better!

[sophie]

What do the row colours mean there? I would normally take red to mean 'closed', but it's open in that example and I can't see any difference between the red and the green req.

The blue and yellow are obviously 'selected' and 'AAC', but don't know about the red.

[foxfirefey]

I don't know what red is, either--all I know is that there's a rule for it that needed to be translated, so I used Firebug to change the class. It actually is a green row that I just changed the class of to .red. I'm not sure in which circumstances it shows up.

[baggyeyes]

Just the main support page the user sees is also pretty hard to see.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/

One more.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/interests?view=popular

[foxfirefey]

Support has a patch in, second goes on the list!