From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: solarized Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:05:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mu1ra1ej.fsf@protesilaos.com> <87imcf9wfp.fsf@protesilaos.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4207"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com To: Protesilaos Stavrou Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 16 07:06:48 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kIPeZ-00012O-OY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 07:06:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34368 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIPeY-0007r4-Q9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:06:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47752) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIPdh-000723-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33427) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIPdg-0005tL-AL; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:05:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kIPdf-0000mw-FO; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:05:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87imcf9wfp.fsf@protesilaos.com> (message from Protesilaos Stavrou on Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:16:42 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:255820 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I agree. It is practically impossible to design for accessibility using > colours that are equally accessible on light and dark backgrounds, while > also remaining fairly distinct between themselves. The background has > to be a given, so that all foreground values can be selected > accordingly. I think you are right. But this suggests an idea to me. Would it make sense to design a color palette, in the same systematic way as Solarized, but with only dark backgrounds, and the other colors meant to contrast with those? And then invert it for light backgrounds? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)