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light blue on yellow/orange: really

RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
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light blue on yellow/orange: you really think this is good readable in the shop?

mr.webdesign_DS

who had this idea?

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  • y3kmany3kman Posts: 852

    I don't see anything wrong with the store. In theory, blue should be fine to use with orange. Are you color blind?

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,081

    @Ruphuss

    I don't see light blue on yellow/orange anywhere in the shop.

  • MelissaGTMelissaGT Posts: 2,611

    Yeah, where is the yellow/orange in the shop?

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631

    https://www.daz3d.com/march-madness-2020

  • DripDrip Posts: 1,249

    Hey, yellow & blue or Or on Azure are the heraldic colors of my home town!

  • jd641jd641 Posts: 462
    edited March 2020
    Ruphuss said:

    https://www.daz3d.com/march-madness-2020

    That's completely legible to me. They probably could probably increase the font size on the yellow text to emphasize the bundles and collections but other than that I don't have an issue with reading it. Besides, the mix of blue/teal and yellow/orange is so over done in advertising that the color combination has become normal to me.

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  • duckbombduckbomb Posts: 585

    To me... it just says "sports team colors"... so I guess if that was their intention they hit the mark :)

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,896

    Blue and yellow/orange are complementary colors, so using blue text on yellow/orange background or vice-versa is actually pretty readable as it creates a strong contrast.

  • AlmightyQUESTAlmightyQUEST Posts: 2,006
    Did they change the colors since this was first brought up? I don't see any light blue on orange (which does sound like a huge problem), but I do see orange on dark blue which is reading ok for me. Though if it is an issue with some forms of colorblindness, that is good feedback for DAZ to keep in mind and avoid in the future. In my other life I often use blue and orange rather than red and green in visuals though specifically to avoid those issues. Not sure how much it changes with text on the background though.
  • MelissaGTMelissaGT Posts: 2,611
    Ruphuss said:

    https://www.daz3d.com/march-madness-2020

    That just looks like sports colors to me, which is where the term "march madness" comes from, I believe. 

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited March 2020

    I thnk it was this page the Op was talkign about

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,137
    edited March 2020

    Very legible to me. Must be color blindness issue...

    This is much better for me than when they do dark grey on black! 

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  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,313
    edited March 2020
    Ivy said:

    I thnk it was this page the Op was talkign about

    Looks  like this to me.  I don't have the yellow text in the upper section.

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  • AlmightyQUESTAlmightyQUEST Posts: 2,006
    Oh, ok yeah it looks way different on mobile.
  • wizwiz Posts: 1,100
    y3kman said:

    I don't see anything wrong with the store. In theory, blue should be fine to use with orange. Are you color blind?

    You may want to get your hands on some better theories.Here's two:

    • You want a substantial difference in lightness in addition to (or instead of) a difference in hue.
    • The human eye isn't color corrected and hue changes literally cause blurry vision.
  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,795

    It should of shifted to lavender at the bottom.

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
    edited March 2020

    using Edge it does not look for me as shown here

    take the blue from above but much lighter and put it over the orange

    i am not colorblind, no

     

     

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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,218
    Ruphuss said:

    using Edge it does not look for me as shown here

    take the blue from above but much lighter and put it over the orange

    i am not colorblind, no

     

     

    Mine looks nothing like that in Opera, the print is in black.

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,081
    edited March 2020

    Text is Black for me. Chrome here.

    Ruphuss said:

    https://www.daz3d.com/march-madness-2020

     

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  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631

    maybe its like this because i use dark mode with Edge

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,218

    I use Dark Theme in Opera.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    Ruphuss said:

    using Edge it does not look for me as shown here

    take the blue from above but much lighter and put it over the orange

    i am not colorblind, no

    Firefox here, and I also sometimes see horribly bad colour clashes exactly like that on banners or sale pages. Some of them are readable, but most aren't. It's more than a little bit ridiculous; don't the web team test their designs on dummy store pages?

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,218

    It may not be the web designers. When I first set up my website in the early 1990's I had to have a separate style sheet for Microsoft Explorer as  they didn't follow the WWW guidelines so it may be an Edge and Firefox thing.

  • bytescapesbytescapes Posts: 1,910

    I ran the Lighthouse checker over it (web testing tool), and the Accessibility check did indeed flag numerous elements on this page for poor contrast.

    The standards used by WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) are pretty stringent -- lots of stuff that looks fine to me gets called out by the AXE tests, and I spend a lot of time tweaking my own designs to try to get them to pass (what do you mean I can't use that nice subtle gray there?) But I think @ruphuss is not wrong: if WCAG is to be believed, that color combo will be difficult for some people to read.

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