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From: wael-zwaiter@gmx.com
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Cannot see what is written on modeline
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 10:02:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-03a7736c-6750-46a8-b60c-930f33c8db27-1621324961320@3c-app-mailcom-bs13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210518075559.GA11623@tuxteam.de>

Currently the colours are

foreground: #ffffff
Background: #bfbfbf (grey75)

The contrast ratio for such combination is 1.8,

This level does not even reach the minimum contrast of 3.0 for large scale text.

Emacs should start caring about colour contrast by itself.

> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 7:55 PM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [External] : Cannot see what is written on modeline
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:47:52PM +0000, Drew Adams wrote:
> > > When I call "emacs27 -q", the mode line has both background and
> > > foreground white.
> > >
> > > I thus cannot see what is written on the modeline.
> >
> > It costs extra to be able to read the mode-line. ;-)
>
> This is sooo 2000s. Nowadays you pay to /disable/ a (dis?)service [1].
> To be fair, it seems to have been a bug [2]. Nonetheless, somewhat...
> Freudian.
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] https://nitter.cc/moyix/status/1388586550682861568
> [2] https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/183
>
>  - t
>



  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-18  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-17 18:16 Cannot see what is written on modeline wael-zwaiter
2021-05-17 22:47 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-17 23:02   ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-22  4:29     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-18  7:55   ` tomas
2021-05-18  8:02     ` wael-zwaiter [this message]
2021-05-18 11:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 12:12         ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 12:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 13:01             ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 13:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 13:09             ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-18 15:19               ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 14:03           ` Drew Adams
2021-05-18 14:33             ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 14:45               ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-18 15:11                 ` tomas
2021-05-18 15:45                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-17 23:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-17 23:41   ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-17 23:44     ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-17 23:49       ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18  0:12         ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-18  0:25           ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18  4:28             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-18  7:55               ` RE: [External] : " wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 13:09                 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-18 15:24                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-19  7:53                     ` Robert Thorpe
2021-05-19  8:50                       ` michael-franzese
2021-05-18 13:13                 ` Óscar Fuentes

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