@Fast Eddie: So is color markup going to be disabled, or will only certain colored things be cleaned up?
@Ultimatum: Are you referring to Elemental Powers? And if so, are you going to bring it to the Repair Shop? I was just thinking of repairing it.
Please help out our The History Of Video Games page.Colour Character, Good Colors, Evil Colors, a lot of the colour tropes use it well and use it to make the articles clearer. Especially when you're trying to describe the difference between nature green and evil green, actually showing the colours works better.
edited 3rd Jun '11 6:26:23 PM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickI disagree about Good Colors, Evil Colors. Both, actually.
People do not need a demonstration to understand which color is the red one. And it looks, as I said earlier, juvenile.
edited 3rd Jun '11 6:30:23 PM by FastEddie
Goal: Clear, Concise and WittyDummied Out uses it well, and a good deal of effort was put into picking a color to use that wasn't garish or off-putting or hard to read. When the color selection was restricted, the page was changed from the dark greenish-grey that had been chosen to the least-bad option we had left, the light-green.
And the Good Colors, Evil Colors distinction between Nature Greens and Unnatural Greens, and the various Blues is helpful, I think.
edited 3rd Jun '11 6:52:27 PM by Madrugada
On Good Colors, Evil Colors, how about just a block of color, rather than coloring the text. It's the colored text that looks cheezy.
Like this ♦, or ♦
edited 3rd Jun '11 7:39:27 PM by FastEddie
Goal: Clear, Concise and WittyI rather like the use of color in Rainbow Speak and Deliberately Monochrome, though All Your Colors Combined is a personal fave.
edited 3rd Jun '11 7:28:34 PM by Earnest
I hadn't seen Rainbow Speak; that's another one where it makes sense, since the trope itself is "In some games, particular words are printer in a different color every time they come up in the dialogue boxes."
Well, yeah, but I was kinda hoping to avoid that.
If I had my way about everything, the color markup would stay, but I don't frequent many pages where it's used, so my opinion doesn't matter very much. Also, the world would probably be worse off if I had my way about everything, but that's a different topic.
We could change "golden sphere" to "magic sapphire" or something, then turn it into plain text potholed to MacGuffin. Then it would be blue.
I agree the gold is a little harsh on the white background.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Except for the gold font, I think Rainbow Speak should keep its color. It's a tame form of Self-Demonstrating that could be done in text form. Plus, it's fun.
Doesn't Painting the Fourth Wall do it too? Apparently not.
edited 3rd Jun '11 8:03:42 PM by chihuahua0
Why not use the page image for the demonstration and leave the article text alone?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
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Fully agree. the color help to explain the trope without you even needing to read the description. Just a quick glance already give you an idea. In fact, I think the color help in pretty much all tropes listed here.
I agree some colors are hard to read, though. Yellow and light gray, for example. White is the most obvious, though, as it is literally impossible to be read. The Colour Character page managed to avoid this issue quite well, though.
Oh, and techinically, you can't display the correct name of the WhenThey Cry series and House of Leaves without using colors. In fact, you can't quote properly House of Leaves and Umineko No Naku Koro Ni without it, and explaining some tropes of it become more awkward as well.
edited 3rd Jun '11 8:52:25 PM by Heatth

I've seen the sourcecode for Elemental Powers, and now I'm trying to find appropriate colors for the many other protagonists of the Sonic series.
I know we already have a thread
in the Yack Fest section, but I wanted to bring it here because I'm asking something important on the wiki itself.
From the above thread, I've learned that the forums don't have the same colors as the wiki, and the method of activating the colors on the forum is different than on the wiki.
I know that there are colors like #662211 that aren't words. This one gives a dirt-brown color (see Earth on the Elemental Powers page).
I need in-depth explanation on how the "number" colors work, and what other "word" colors we can use on the wiki.
Please help out our The History Of Video Games page.