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Deeper Org headline colors hard to differentiate #98
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OK, maybe you guys that do UX / Design more than me already knew this, but... I had to figure it out for myself. 😄 First I am just leaving notes on what did NOT work, to try and maybe save others a little time and brain energy (later on I do get to something that is actually workable though, I think...)... So bear with me. 😃 First I tried doing something with the Aurora palette, it was way too loud / obnoxious for such a relaxed, subdued theme. I had even tried leaving out Then some more iterations before I realized I need to go back to the "heart palette" of Frost. More iteration... Finally I realized (I think I remembered this from some other theme) that we can repeat the same colors again, once they get far enough apart... So I did:
Notice that I only use Then once we get to I am no Emacs theming expert, but I was able to override the theme temporarily with the following code for testing purposes. Feel free to try it out and tell me what you guys think:
At the end, you can see I was also playing around with the Also, I think all headings should be some level of bold, even lower ones. And with the Frost palette, you kind of need it to have enough there to differentiate those colors anyway (IMO). Here are some contrived headings for you to copy/paste and see for yourself how all the colors relate (and maybe I get around to making a screenshot):
Of course I need to "live with it" for some period of time to see what I really think, but I just wanted to post this back here for simultaneous marination (and comments). 🍻 EDIT: OK I add a pic: |
Hi @TRSx80 👋, thanks for your contribution 👍 The reason for only using Anyway, I guess there's still potential for improvement:
Level 7 and 8 can still use
Let me know what you think about it, maybe you also like to try this style on your own to see if it also fits 😄 |
Thanks for your thoughts. I did not try your adjusted scheme yet, I will do so and report back later (as I haven't touched this in a while and having trouble visualizing it off the top of my head), however in the meantime I realized something else. One subtle point that I did want to bring up, which you would not be aware of if not an Emacs/Org user, is that after level 8 they simply repeat. In other words:
Which, with my current scheme, makes for somewhat of an "imperfect" repeating pattern. However level 9+ headings are so infrequent (even for me) that I haven't spent any further time thinking about how to optimize it. Maybe that's only a problem for me, if you are taking the approach of making lower levels "all the same" then perhaps it doesn't matter (other than just being aware of). And you are probably right about "too deep content" in fact it is something I even wonder about myself. But in my main |
Hallo!,
Great project, I'm really enjoying it! 😄
But I was wondering: Am I the only one who has fair amount of typically deep levels? 😄
For me, it makes it harder than I feel it should be to differentiate between the deeper nested levels.
I could (and probably will) just update my local config, but I like this project a lot so I figured I would at least try and contribute something to the discussion. But maybe everyone else likes the way it is now?
Maybe I am just too used to Solarized Dark, which I used for a long time, before coming to Nord more recently. It was (arguably) "ugly" (well, let's just say, not as nice looking as Nord 😉 ), but one thing that it did do as advertised was to make it very easy to pick out important things at a glance. Not saying we need to go all the way in that direction, but perhaps a little more than where we are at currently?
I am not even sure how that would look, within the current palette though. Use (some (lower?) part of?) Aurora palette for Levels 1-4 maybe, and then Frost palette for 5-8 or something? I guess I need to play around with it and see how it looks. This idea just occurred to me though, so I suppose I figured I'd throw it out there and see what other people thought about it.
Maybe I play a bit with my local config, and share something after a while if I come to something I like.
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