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Still not sure the blue works on a large screen, let me show you a screen shot to show what I mean ... ;p
I think it could work, more navy than purple is an improvement I think. Also think the lighter shade needs to be a bit less blue (on the right, was light grey)
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I think it could work, more navy than purple is an improvement I think. Also think the lighter shade needs to be a bit less blue (on the right, was light grey)
That's achieved as an 80% opacity white layer over whatever the background colour is.
The prior one was grey because the background was grey.
Velocio
Wayne defined a few colours in the original palette for LFGSS, the light blue on the logo, a navy, a blue mid-way between the two, a dark grey, and a near black.
We've used the dark grey as the background, and @6pt designed the skinsuit colours maybe without realising he's picked almost exactly the same colours as Wayne (because I'm not sure I gave Tom all of the colours).
I tried the other colours as the background, but they never quite worked to the same effect as either the skinsuit or the other elements that Wayne had knocked up (various logo files, mocks of how the forum might look, etc).
Basically... the blues were too blue, too vivid, when on a large screen.
This morning I got an itch, thinking that I should try and get closer to the original idea for the background, which was a blue... and that I should really just experiment and see what works, around the spot where the blue exists... but adding more greys, to reduce the impact of what is quite a bright navy otherwise.