Mentions unreadable with "Digi Orange" theme

[Hardcoder]

Hi, I'm using the "Digi Orange" theme for the board, and I can't read mentions (like @myself) because the dark blue has too little contrast to the background.
I have to select the text, to read it.
Could you please use a brighter colour (eg the colour for links) for mentions in this theme?
Thanks

[joedf]

Makes sense, I'm adding this to my to-do list and will take a look later.

[Hardcoder]

Thanks

[joedf]

@Hardcoder Okay, so I've added a white stoke to it, so it should be visible anywhere.

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text-shadow: -1px 1px 0 #fff, 1px 1px 0 #fff, 1px -1px 0 #fff, -1px -1px 0 #fff;

[Hardcoder]

Yes, that is very visible
Thank you

[joedf]

Glad this works, thanks for reporting!

[gregster]

This is also an improvement for the plain 'Digi' theme. Thank you, joedf!

[boiler]

I also appreciate addressing the unreadable mentions in the Digi themes. It is better than before, so please disregard this suggestion if it's deemed to be not worth the effort or if I'm the only one with this opinion. I find the stroked text hard to read or at least not very pleasing to the eye -- not a criticism, just my opinion. It's sort of jarring relative to everything else on the page, making the forum less professional looking in my view.

I have spent a fair bit of time designing user interfaces for commercial software products, particularly in choosing fonts, colors, weights, etc., for max readability and aesthetics (particularly in poker statistic displays where legibility is critical), so maybe I'm more sensitive than others to these things, but I believe adding a stroke to text works with larger and/or bolder fonts, not with regular text. It becomes pretty busy and hard to look at, especially if the name contains a lot of vertical line characters. I think it would be ideal if a mention in a Digi theme just had a different color blue than the one that was previously used. That would keep it from blending in with the background like it did before. A brighter blue color such as the one used for links or a similar hue would be perfect, imo. My two cents...

[joedf]

@boiler I completely agree! this was the quick fix, but it's only midly bothersome for me. especially since I don't use the digi themes
Do you have a color in mind? Hopefully, one good color to use for all the digi themes?

[boiler]

Thanks, @joedf! I believe the shade of blue used for some keywords in the codebox highlighting should show up very well and would also be distinct from the blue used in other cases like URL links and documentation links, which looks to be RGB code 66D9EF:

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Here it is on the various backgrounds on which it could appear in the range of Digi themes, where it seems to show up clearly on all:

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Thanks again for entertaining my nit-picking.

[joedf]

@boiler And a thanks to you too! incremental improvements...
Great! I'll add this in my todos and should have it soon enough.

[boiler]

Thanks! No hurry, of course.

[joedf]

Okay, should be updated in all digi themes! with #66D9EF and the rest should be the default #FF0000.

[boiler]

Looks great! Thanks, @joedf !

[guest3456]

Okay, should be updated in all digi themes! with #66D9EF and the rest should be the default #FF0000.

on Simplicity theme, the mentions have now turned red instead of blue

[joedf]

@guest3456 That is as expected. It's the original default from the extension.
I can changed if you'd like.

[guest3456]

oh ok, i thought default was blue.. it doesnt matter to me either way