A web design favor

[Stella_Omega]

http://test.probablepossible.com/

Pleease tell me how the colors look to you?

On my screen they look bronzey and grey-ish, and a little bit dusty and faded.

On the other computer in the house, which has been "set to bright colors " according to its user, the khaki grey looks like olive, the fonts look like sixties gold and green. This is hardly the neutral-yet-seductive environment I was after!

What colors do you see? Are they obtrusive? What are you seeing them on, (mac or PC, age of said machine, old or new monitor) ?

 

[Keroin]

I don't see bronze or grey. Definitely olive. Text is green and gold, yep.

I'm on a old Toshiba laptop (old being about 5 years +) running Windows Vista.

 

[HottieMama]

olive/gold/green

Laptop, 17" flat screen monitor/ Windows 7

 

[bhndblueyes88]

same here with the olive/green/gold widescreen dell monitor, Windows 7

 

[Noira]

Definitely no bronze on my screen... it's all very olive, definitely no gold, but the colors do look okay... no gaudy and over the top 60s colors. However, the text on your banner is not very readable. Try on some gold for size instead of that indigo, and check the anti-alias button if your program has it.

Please note that I don't like bright colors so I have my monitor's brightness cranked down to 30 and the enhance colors options off, so my visual might not be everyone else's since I changed my monitor's defaults quite heavily.

 

[BiBunny]

Definitely no bronze on my screen... it's all very olive, definitely no gold, but the colors do look okay... no gaudy and over the top 60s colors. However, the text on your banner is not very readable. Try on some gold for size instead of that indigo, and check the anti-alias button if your program has it.

Please note that I don't like bright colors so I have my monitor's brightness cranked down to 30 and the enhance colors options off, so my visual might not be everyone else's since I changed my monitor's defaults quite heavily.

The banner text is indigo?

But, yes, olive and gold. I like green color of the background, but I don't think the olive goes well with it, though that may be what you're trying to fix.

Widescreen Toshiba laptop--new, got it for Christmas--Windows 7. Looks the same on my 3-year-old Toshiba laptop, Windows Vista. (What? I use them both for work because I'm a P-I-M-P.)

 

[wicked woman]

Green and olive but no gold here as well. Not giving a neutral yet seductive environment to me. Looks more 70s.

Dell laptop that's 1-2 years old.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Grr, Oh-kay!

(You guys are all seeing different headers, which rotate randomly.

here they are

Thank you for your help!

 

[Noira]

Yeah, go with the non-indigo banners. They look much nicer.

You may just have to admit that different monitors will be calibrated differently and short of black and white, you can't be sure it'll appear right.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Yeah, go with the non-indigo banners. They look much nicer.

You may just have to admit that different monitors will be calibrated differently and short of black and white, you can't be sure it'll appear right.

yeah... grr!

 

[Stella_Omega]

Okay, how about now? I've changed the colors of the text-- a little bit. And I've changed the color of the main background.
(edit) spoke too soon for the rest of it)

 

[BiBunny]

You're leaning more toward brown now than olive on your content wrapper, which is good. Sidebar and navbar are stil olive-y, but I don't think you've gotten that far yet. Link text in sidebar is good, but the yellow/gold text is still a bit jarring. All in all, though, the colors are better than before.

Also, totally not trying to be a bitch. If it comes off that way, I'm really sorry. I'm tired, and I can't figure out the best way to word shit right now, LOL.

 

[Kojote]

Well... I don't even know the names of some colours involved.
But I like it.

 

[wicked woman]

I agree with Bunny, the change is an improvement.

Be careful about your font size (e.g. in the side bar on the right). With a dark background, a small font size is really hard to read and your colour choice is crucial to helping that out. I'm having difficulty reading the medium font at the top; the large size is bigger than needed (so easy to read), and the really small font is too difficult. Oh and my eyesight is fine.

btw I have the same issue with FL and its black background.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Thank you guys!. Bunny, you're not being a bitch, you're giving me information that I asked for

 

[midwestyankee]

I've looked at this from both sides now: my desktop monitor and my brand-spanking new droid with a 3 gazillion color monitor. My desktop monitor is pretty old, probably close to 10 years and is an early LCD. On my monitor, the header backgrounds look lighter than olive. The rotating flash piece below the top nav bar seems pretty bronze-y. On my phone, that same flash background looks more gray.

I'm with WW on the nav bar font size. It's too damned small for me to read easily, and the underlining only makes it less legible.

While you didn't ask the holistic question, I do like the overall look and feel.

 

[Noira]

This looks much more 'dusty and old', I like.

 

[Stella_Omega]

That theme is live and running, on http://probablepossible.com
Thank you all for your help!

there's a new theme up now at http://test.probablepossible.com which will be for the wooden dildoes site

I already know you will all recoil at the bright greens and pinks of the text, and I feel like I'm going color blind ... any suggestions, my friends?

 

[wicked woman]

Actually the pink and greens look very muted to me...almost too muted. Personally I think a bit more clarity in colour would be better.

 

[BiBunny]

Actually the pink and greens look very muted to me...almost too muted. Personally I think a bit more clarity in colour would be better.

Agreed. Especially the pink.

 

[midwestyankee]

Actually the pink and greens look very muted to me...almost too muted. Personally I think a bit more clarity in colour would be better.

My sentiments exactly. Though I would rather see a bit more clarity in color.

 

[Stella_Omega]

What do you guys think about the very dark background? On my monitor, I can see just a hint of midnight blue behind the sidebar. The main section is deep brown, like the probablepossible site, but with some texture.

All of the product shots are on pink, coral, or apricot backgrounds.

 

[BiBunny]

What do you guys think about the very dark background? On my monitor, I can see just a hint of midnight blue behind the sidebar. The main section is deep brown, like the probablepossible site, but with some texture.

All of the product shots are on pink, coral, or apricot backgrounds.

I like the page background and the content wrap background, both. I think you might need to go slightly more "pinky" with the text, though. It looks appropriately pink in the sidebar, but against the brown in the main content section, it looks kinda washed out.

Other than that? Two thumbs up.

 

[wicked woman]

My sentiments exactly. Though I would rather see a bit more clarity in color.

Watch it Yank or I'll have Keroin take away your honorary Canadian citizenship.

 

[wicked woman]

What do you guys think about the very dark background? On my monitor, I can see just a hint of midnight blue behind the sidebar. The main section is deep brown, like the probablepossible site, but with some texture.

All of the product shots are on pink, coral, or apricot backgrounds.

I like the background but that's mostly because brown and green are two of my favourite colours. You just need to make sure that the colour, size, and font make it easy to read because the dark versus light background make it more of a problem.

If the products or shot on pink, coral or apricot, have you tried replacing the pink with a coral or apricot in the same tone as the green? Just an idea.