Thread: Change the default light gray text on dark gray background colors

It disturbed me at the very beginning as well (low contrast is never good), however with time I started seeing the advantages: 1) You may simply emphasize something by coloring it white - I happen to do that from time to time. 2) If all text was white by default, the contrast would be too big (black text on white background feels natural, but white text on black kicks you in the eyes and is not comfortable to read, that's why it needs to be grayed out). So, if any change will be considered, this cannot be switching to #fff - it has to stay gray, maybe just a little brighter.

Hey guys,


I read this thread this morning and decided to do something about it. I just finished it up but unfortunately have no more time to write a tutorial. I'll see if I can write it up tonight or perhaps tmrw. Below are screen shots of what I've been doing for a couple of hours. I really think its possible to even have your own personal skins for the entire site.....

For non web-dev's, I've left comments on how to change it to your own colors. I'll get into detail in the tut.


Before and after: (LARGE animated .gif)

Click to image to enlarge:
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/3530/beforeafter.gif

I finally got around to finishing it, so here it is if your interested.

http://www.torrent-invites.com/tutor...-new-post.html

theres a new theme labeled torrent-invites-white that is a nice bright theme. you will find it on the bottom left of this page.

OK, a few issues. Quite a lot of posters use white text to make it more readable on the black theme... but it's invisible on the white theme... So the white text should be automatically converted on theme change to white, like the grey is converted to blue.

is it just me or does the white text and black background look nice whenever you type in the "quick reply" but unfortunately it turns to default gray on black.

i like the contrast of white text on black background. anyone else agree?

theres a new theme labeled torrent-invites-white that is a nice bright theme. you will find it on the bottom left of this page.

yeah .. this seems to be better idea

the themes r much better , it also will be up to u then to choose the skin u like most

but i can`t find it though