endoself comments on Rationalist horoscopes: A low-hanging utility generator. - Less Wrong

62 Post author: AdeleneDawner 22 May 2011 09:37AM

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Comment author: badger 22 May 2011 12:35:59PM 1 point [-]

Awesome! One suggestion: consider a different background or theme. I find that black on brown combination hard to read.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 22 May 2011 07:03:53PM 3 points [-]

I've changed the theme to one I knew was very customizable in terms of colors, and given it a rough approximation of LW's color palette. It should be significantly more readable now, but I'm still open to changing it if there are any other issues or suggestions.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 May 2011 04:16:21PM 1 point [-]

General suggestion: light text should go on dark backgrounds and vice versa. When I see difficult-to-read text in PowerPoint presentations that my classmates give, it's almost always because they didn't do this.

Huge text, like the "Actually Useful Horoscopes" title, doesn't have to follow this rule, but it doesn't hurt, either. Try making the title lighter and the background darker, or vice versa.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 24 May 2011 04:25:26PM 1 point [-]

I changed the title to use the lighter green that's used for some of the backgrounds.

I may, in the long run, wind up replacing the title text with a graphic.

Comment author: kpreid 25 May 2011 10:10:55PM 0 points [-]

Qualification: Whether a given color is "light" or "dark" for these purposes depends on the display medium (monitor (including brightness), projector, paper, ...), and the text size and viewing distance.