Greetings, fellow spellcasters!<br/><br/>The topic of today's lesson is:<strong>Colours vs. themes</strong>, which is a continuation of the previous lesson about colours (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=290221.msg14491467#msg14491467).<br/><br/>In the past I used to format headers as<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;">[color=brown]</span>(<strong>example</strong>in bold) and text that I wanted to stand out as<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;">[color=navy]</span>(example in normal style).  However, those colours turned out to be illegible for people that prefer to use a dark theme.<br/><br/>I did some testing and came up with a small subset of colours that, in my opinion, work reasonably well in both the default and the dark themes.  The table below contains the colour names in 4 different styles to give you an example how the text will appear when rendered in that colour.  I also added links (which use their own colour unless overridden) for comparison, since using the same colour that is used for links can be confusing.<br/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><span class="bbc_u">Normal</span></td><td><em><span class="bbc_u">Italic</span></em></td><td><strong><span class="bbc_u">Bold</span></strong></td><td><strong><em><span class="bbc_u">Bold+Italic</span></em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>rosybrown</td><td><em>rosybrown</em></td><td><strong>rosybrown</strong></td><td><strong><em>rosybrown</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>darkgoldenrod</td><td><em>darkgoldenrod</em></td><td><strong>darkgoldenrod</strong></td><td><strong><em>darkgoldenrod</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>goldenrod</td><td><em>goldenrod</em></td><td><strong>goldenrod</strong></td><td><strong><em>goldenrod</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>orange</td><td><em>orange</em></td><td><strong>orange</strong></td><td><strong><em>orange</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>darkorange</td><td><em>darkorange</em></td><td><strong>darkorange</strong></td><td><strong><em>darkorange</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>tomato</td><td><em>tomato</em></td><td><strong>tomato</strong></td><td><strong><em>tomato</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>orangered</td><td><em>orangered</em></td><td><strong>orangered</strong></td><td><strong><em>orangered</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>deeppink</td><td><em>deeppink</em></td><td><strong>deeppink</strong></td><td><strong><em>deeppink</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>hotpink</td><td><em>hotpink</em></td><td><strong>hotpink</strong></td><td><strong><em>hotpink</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>fuchsia</td><td><em>fuchsia</em></td><td><strong>fuchsia</strong></td><td><strong><em>fuchsia</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>mediumpurple</td><td><em>mediumpurple</em></td><td><strong>mediumpurple</strong></td><td><strong><em>mediumpurple</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>dodgerblue</td><td><em>dodgerblue</em></td><td><strong>dodgerblue</strong></td><td><strong><em>dodgerblue</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>cadetblue</td><td><em>cadetblue</em></td><td><strong>cadetblue</strong></td><td><strong><em>cadetblue</em></strong></td></tr><tr><td>(link) (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php)</td><td><em>(link)</em> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php)</td><td><strong>(link)</strong> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php)</td><td><strong><em>(link)</em><strong></strong></strong> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php)</td></tr></tbody></table><br/>I posted this table elsewhere to solicit responses, and got the following comments (slightly paraphrased for breivity):<br/><br/><strong>Liam Dale</strong>: I believe these 4 look amazing with the October theme: deeppink, fuchsia, dodgerblue, cadetblue.<br/><br/><strong>Syene</strong>: I use the pink and gray theme. rosybrown is better than default pink, but still pretty low contrast. hotpink isn't great either.<br/><br/><br/>And the code for the baker's dozen:<br/><div class="floatleft"><div class="codeheader">Code: <a class="codeoperation" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);">[Select]</a></div><pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><code class="bbc_code">[color=rosybrown]rosybrown[/color]<br/>[color=goldenrod]goldenrod[/color]<br/>[color=darkgoldenrod]darkgoldenrod[/color]<br/>[color=orange]orange[/color]<br/>[color=darkorange]darkorange[/color]<br/>[color=tomato]tomato[/color]<br/>[color=orangered]orangered[/color]<br/>[color=deeppink]deeppink[/color]<br/>[color=hotpink]hotpink[/color]<br/>[color=fuchsia]fuchsia[/color]<br/>[color=mediumpurple]mediumpurple[/color]<br/>[color=dodgerblue]dodgerblue[/color]<br/>[color=cadetblue]cadetblue[/color]</code></pre></div><br class="clear_left"/><br/><br/><br/>Cheers,<br/>-- Al