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[Python-Dev] Playing with a new theme for the docs

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Wed Mar 21 06:57:34 CET 2012 
On 20.03.2012 23:45, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Nice and clean, but looks too similar to newer Google properties...
> Also I see that (like Google) you're falling for the fallacy of using
> less contrast. From an accessibility perspective that's questionable
> -- and I don't mean the legally blind, just people like myself whose
> eyes are getting a bit older. This also means I don't particularly
> like adding background color (no matter how light) to text samples.

Well, to be fair, the current theme also has a lot of shading, and the
text in the sidebar is at lower contrast too.  But I can see that the
main text should remain at as high contrast as possible.

Georg
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