Re: Styling of SVG 2.0

On Sun, 27 May 2012 03:00:43 +0200, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>  
wrote:

> Tavmjong Bah:
>> One styling issue I would like to bring up is that of figures. SVG 1.1
>> has quite inconsistent figures. Some are very small, others large. A few
>> are quite garish. When I redid the pserver section I tried to make all
>> the figures in a consistent way (similar sizes, colors, fonts, arrow
>> styling, etc.).
>
> Fixing up all the figures in the spec would be great.  Choosing a  
> palette of common colours to use across figures is also a good idea.  I  
> am not quite sure about the set of colours in the gradient images (but  
> of course it's going to be subjective again).  It's better than then red  
> -> yellow -> green -> blue gradients, though!
>
> In the figures I've been working on in painting.html, I've enjoyed using  
> deeppink.  I think if much of the time a figure can stick to using one  
> colour, and black/grey for other elements, then we can avoid garishness.  
>   For example in  
> https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/images/painting/markers-repeating.svg the  
> black works well against the deeppink i think.  I wanted two highlight  
> colours for  
> https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/images/painting/linejoin-construction.svg  
> so the green there is the complement (approximately) of the deeppink.
>
> As I mentioned in the call, most of the existing 1.1 figures have a thin  
> blue border around them, in the actual SVG file.  For the painting.html  
> figures I removed that and put a thin grey border around the <img> in  
> CSS.  I think that looks clean, but I see that your figures in  
> pservers.html don't have borders at all (or a white background).  The  
> css3-fonts images also don't have borders, and they look nice.  I might  
> try removing it from the painting.html ones and see how it looks.
>
> (The fact that some of the figures I have in painting.html are inside  
> blocks with background colours (like inside a <div class="example">)  
> suggested to me that the white background colour for the <img> was  
> needed.)

How about using one external stylesheet containing our colorscheme of  
choice, and let that be referenced from all the spec examples?


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Received on Monday, 28 May 2012 07:36:45 UTC