BoM Light Style

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By popular demand (well, there was Barmy...), we now have a light(er) skin for the boards. You can select BoM Light from the dropdown menu in the bottom left corner of every page of the boards. You can freely switch between the two skins and use whichever one works best for you.

The original BoM skin will remain the default for now unless changed.

Jokes aside, a light skin is something which has been requested quite often but I never got around to implementing, but better late than never!

As this is the first public version of the skin it's likely that I've missed something that will need to be readjusted or you'll find something that bothers you, so please use the skin for a while and let me know if anything is out of place, any colours that are problematic, etc. Overall, I hope you'll like it.

I'll also have a fixed width version of this new one and the default skin available soon.

 

Ok, the fixed width styles for both light and dark skins are available now as well.

 

You're welcome.

The problem with white is that it's very hard on the eyes unless it's shaded a bit... I didn't use white with this one on purpose to make it as easy on the eyes as our dark one is. I'll experiment a bit and see if there's a shade of white that'd be usable though.

 

Green? Err... the background is mustardy-sandy-beige-something...

Change is hard after you've been using a style for years and most people's first instinct is to not give an alternative style a chance... but I think that most of this is due to what you get used to. If I set the light style as default and tried to change it to dark after 5 years I'm sure there'd be an outcry.

It's a good idea to think of the introduction of an alternative style like this as coming to a different site - there you don't expect to get the same kind of style as on some other site and that doesn't bother you. That way you can easily use it for a while and see if you like it better than the old one. If you just go by the first reaction, you'll never change it unless you've been yearning for a light skin all these years.

Btw, I've enabled the "Default Style" in the selection. It would need some editing to get it to work properly as it's got some issues currently so for now I'm only enabling it to get some feedback on it. Colour-wise it's very neutral.

 

For the record, anyone who sees any green in the light style has monitor colour/contrast/hue/saturation settings off. There's no green in that skin. Unfortunately it's very common that people's monitor colour settings are off so they get used to seeing their own versions of colours which are not in fact the actual, correct colours. Almost every monitor also has its own version of "magic" mode for enhancing colours or producing various varying effects of cool, dark, vibrant, etc. so what people wind up with in the end is anybody's guess. I've seen dozens of people's colour settings over the years and very few of them had anything resembling proper colour choices.

 

I added more to my post after your quoted me.

I meant "off" as in wrong, not turned off.

The problem with correct colour settings is that they depend on a number of factors... monitor, monitor colour calibration, graphics card, settings, etc.

If you've got a Nvidia card, you can run the Display Optimization Wizard from the Nvidia Control Panel - that's probably the easiest way to get you in the generally correct direction. But before that you should fiddle with the monitor controls and turn off any "Magic" or special colour settings that are turned on currently, because just one such setting enabled can completely mess up the colour representation.

Everything should be set to "default" or "normal". Unfortunately, even with that, you could still have one or more settings misconfiguration which could skew the colour representation. It's this level of possible complications that accounts for so many misconfigured monitors.