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List:       kde-artists
Subject:    Re: K-ARTIST:design of KDE artist web site v2
From:       ante <vitanova () softhome ! net>
Date:       2002-08-18 12:23:53
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On Sunday 18 August 2002 11:45, luciash d' being wrote:
> ante wrote:
> > On Friday 16 August 2002 07:16, antialias wrote:
> >>And another thing: why should we insist on orange-grey combination while
> >>KDE predominant colors are blue.
>
> Mac OSX Aqua is much more blue ;) Windows XP is blueish as default too :O
> for me it seems KDE as default is much more light-grey scheme + some blue
> elements...
>
> > You certainly have a point here. Still, I guess the artists department
> > can be a bit more colorfull than the rest. KDE has an industrial flavor
> > (gear-wheel and all, I guess that's where the bolts came from), a meeting
> > place for artists does not have to be that industrial.
>
> yes, i totally agree with ante!
>
> > The more white you start with, the more colorfull color elements look. If
> > you have a lot of white, even grey can be "colorfull", while if you start
> > with orange, you can only back down. I would start with a lot of white,
> > add a few color elements. (If you add a playfull gear-wheel or something
> > like that, there is a playfull relationship with the industrial
> > strength.)
>
> i will think about this much more now.
>
> it looks like nobody here likes orange or another "warm" colors. do you
> think "cold" colors are better for KDE artist's site?
> must everything consist of blue?
> tell me (_you all_) which colour should be dominant for the default KDE
> artist's site theme and i will try to make it finally (a different one and
> not only shifting the hue;) )...

I remember a version some time ago with a lot of blue, it was very dull. 
Compared, orange looks better :-) Still, it is quite hard to get a good 
balance with orange, as this discussion shows. I would start with white, then 
play with some color elements. It's not a color that does it, it's the 
balance. Orange fi, like red, has a strong presence, soon it is too much. You 
probably can not substitute colors like that, since some have a stronger 
presence than others. A thin red line often looks good, a thin orange line 
may be to feeble...

Cordialemente,

Ante



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