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Why-kun2.2 years ago
Love this
Richard Hoefer2.4 years ago
This is one of my favorite browser themes because of the thoughtful contrast and graceful background differentiations in the color palette you designed for the background surfaces in the UI. With one BIG exception I will note at bottom.
THOUGHTFUL CONTRAST:
1) Though my eyes very much prefer a subdued *dark theme* as the core interface VS. a light UI background or very-colorful stripes and other visual interrupters, at the same time my eyes can't handle Black UI's because they also give me eyestrain.
2) You have numerous multicolor themes that are slick looking and I've tried them all -- but to my eyes none of the others in the series offer Vestia Zeta's superb contrast ratios.
--A) The URL BAR here is the perfect dark color that draws your eyes to it immediately without having to hunt around for it. --B) the URL text color smartly presents the primary domain address in white text-- while dimming the characters to either side of it.
3) The next-darkest value of grey is the Extensions and Bookmarks Bars. It's slate grey color (several values lighter than URL Bar) allows the address bar to pop. But more important that middle-dark grey bg is one of the very few browser designs around that perfectly solves the readability problem of extension icons that show as black. If you dialed this background color a lot brighter, then this would have harmed the readability of some of the color and grey-scale extensions.
4) The default icon-set uses a subdued lilac-blue color -- which again has a perfect ability to stand out from other elements.
5) The Medium-Grey Tab Bar sharply separates from URL bar and everything else below it. Personally I am not fond of your "paper-bag-brown" color choice for the tabs... but I accept that their color value works especially well as a sharp contrast color difference from the dark-grey used to denote CURRENT TAB IN USE. That alone was one of the primary reasons I chose this theme-- so many themes make that ACTIVE TAB just a step or 2 lighter or darker than the open tabs. ANd when you have 30 or so tabs open, it's another eye-squint task to try to find the tab you turned away from for just a second or two, then lost in a sea of undifferentiated tab colors.
AND FINALLY what I don't like at all... and the reason for writing this hoping you might consider making a fix and distributing it as an alternate release:
THE FOLDER COLORS. Though i really see how you went for and achieved a very subdued UI, that helps one focus on the content in the window, those dark shadowed folders at a slight angle are not helpful at all. The shadow play against the background gives a weird perspective, unlevel baseline, foreshortens the right side of the icons making them fuzzy looking and they're just too damn dark. Forgive me but they look cheap, clash with the visual language of the design, and detract from. Please I hope you may consider a better look. It would even be 100% better if you simply made them outline-stroked only using the same lilac-blue, or make them solid colors with that color or a few steps darker. Thank you for your consideration. Richard
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