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Re: [css-ui] Styling Form Controls

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:23:11 -0500
Message-ID: <54CBF63F.1060402@inkedblade.net>
To: www-style@w3.org
On 01/29/2015 04:27 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>
> Something like what you sketched, with a palette of colors to deal
> with, would work.
>
> Looking through some internal color design docs, I find some automatic
> color-extraction design using the following set of colors:
>
> * Light/Normal/Dark Vibrant
> * Light/Normal/Dark Muted
> * Vibrant Complementary (for call-out buttons and such that need to be
> visually distinct)
> (where light ~75% lightness, normal is ~50%, dark is ~25%; vibrant is
> at least 30% saturation, ideally 100%, and muted is at most 40%
> saturation, ideally 30%)
>
> * Light/Dark Contrasting Text
> * Light/Dark Contrasting Secondary Text
>
> This might be a good set to start with.

You're trying to define the inverse of UA system colors. We already
decided that was a bad idea.

~fantasai
Received on Friday, 30 January 2015 21:23:40 UTC

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