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I agree with all of these points in all honesty.
This is a perfect fix for it.
Completely agree on the black headers being turned into teal blue. The rest of the suggestion are alright, unless we find something better.
"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."
I wrote a userstyle that changes some of the colours around. Any opinions? https://userstyles.org/styles/124078/tvtropes-1-3-wide-and-colorful
It also shrinks the sidebar, prevents Showcase banners from being cut off, fixes the padding issues on Wide Load, and restores a monospace font to the editor.
Edited by Prime32
What about the Tear Jerker, and Heartwarming pages?
^ Tear Jerker will be the same color as the YMMV pages. Heartwarming is part of Sugar Wiki by default.
I think the grey background should be blue too, but yeah i agree. @Prime32 THANK YOU
Edited by SmartGirl333
For Darth Wiki, please have same color scheme as Nightmare Fuel, but please don't have the same font.
No, you can't eat my soul. Stop asking.
^ Actually, I meant to put Darth Wiki there, since Nightmare Fuel is basically an extension of Darth Wiki. I don't really care about the font though.
Tried out Prime32's userstyle. While I feel it's rather incomplete in regards with the other pages, it does have a good idea of what I want the main pages to look like. I particularly like the sky blue colored negative space. I might add that on my list once I can edit it.
I also do like the thinner way the side bars look.
Also, I forgot about the footers. While I think the ones on the Sugar and Darth Wikis are fine, the normal footers should be changed to blue and the YMMV footers to a darker blue.
Edited by SatoshiBakura
Most of these suggestions would just revert the colour scheme to the way it was, which I'm not sure is likely to happen.
However, while we're at it, please remove the pink/red highlighting hover effect on Sugar/Darth Wiki links. It's intensely distracting, and tbh belongs with <marquee> in the box of Things That Should Never Have Happened To The Internet.
(In the current colour scheme, Darth Wiki links are also quite hard on the eyes.)
Edited by LongLiveHumour
I haven't looked at the new Darth/Sugar Wikis yet, but I'll add something for them to the userstyle sometime in the next few days.
I've finally gotten 'round to checking Prime32's userstyle. It's really nifty looking. I was picturing the headers being teal with the background staying grey, but Prime's color scheme is also pretty good. I wouldn't complain if the site looked like that.
"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."
^...What made you think that I was going with teal? Teal would not look good on normal TV Tropes pages.
Edited by SatoshiBakura
Yes. Do this. This. Will. Be. Perfect.
Creator of the Avatar Arena and its Discord server.
So I ended up getting that new version done sooner than I expected. It should cover most of the alternate page types now - let me know if there's any I missed.
Not sure if people would agree much with me on this, but a darker negative space seems like it'd be easier on the eyes. When I look up "teal" I get a lot of different shades. Maybe something like this?
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EDIT: Started using Prime's Style. It actually looks great in practice. Will be sticking with this from now on, until/unless changes are made to the default.
Edited by OroCrimson Anger and insults are the worst possible way to make someone see a different perspective. - Daniel Floyd
Made a few changes. I hope they're accepted.
Noticing that some complaints amount to the coloring. But most of them just consist of "the coloring is bad". Therefor, I have compiled a more specific chart of what should be done.
- Normal Pages:
- Grey headers: Make them blue. This is TV Tropes. Our primary color is blue.
- Negative Space: Make it light blue.
- Footer: Make it blue.
- YMMV Pages:
- Top Header: Make it dark blue. Make green button grey.
- Orange Headers: Make them dark blue as well. Make green button orange.
- Space Around Text: Make it grey.
- Negative Space: Make it a dark grey.
- Footer: Make it dark blue.
- Links: Make them orange when highlighted.
- Sub-page tabs: Make the outlines orange and the words dark blue.
- Sugar Wiki:
- Top Header: Make it bluish green. Replace bluish green button with yellow.
- Bluish Green Headers: Make the pink button yellow.
- Negative Space: Make it pink.
- Links: Make them bluish green.
- Nightmare Fuel:
- Top Header: Make it red. Make red button black.
- Space Around Text: Make it grey.
- Negative Space: Make it black.
Edited by SatoshiBakura