Colours
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 10:31 am
This is something that has been sitting in the back of my mind for a while - it isn't really a feature request (though it may lead to one) or bug, so thought this would be the best place to post it. Just wanted to get some thoughts on it at the moment from other CN users.
There seems to be a disconnect between the colours in CN. There are two spots we can set colours:
a. For the CN main window itself, in View->Color Theme;
b. For the notes, in Properties when you right click the section header.
So far, so easy to understand. The thing I am seeing though is that the colours don't really match, in the respects of i. The colour you select from either a or b seems so much less colourful than the colour picker indicates (ie it seems washed out), and ii. The colour that you pick for the CN main window often clashes badly with the colour you select for the note. Here are some screenshots:
http://i.imgur.com/BbouM3B.png (Main CN window vs note colour)
http://i.imgur.com/ZVOPpHd.png (Note colour selected not matching the actual applied note colour)
http://i.imgur.com/0Xi5lqX.png (CN window colour selected not matching the actual applied window colour)
All in all, the CN colours are very washed out for some reason, and really don't do anything to show off CN at all (in the sense of making people look at it and go 'wow, that looks nice, what program is it?'). Anyway, was just wondering what other people thought of the colours in CN. For me, (a) is the biggest issue - I appreciate some colours are always going to clash, but I think (a) makes the effect of (b) worse as well.
Regards,
Chris
There seems to be a disconnect between the colours in CN. There are two spots we can set colours:
a. For the CN main window itself, in View->Color Theme;
b. For the notes, in Properties when you right click the section header.
So far, so easy to understand. The thing I am seeing though is that the colours don't really match, in the respects of i. The colour you select from either a or b seems so much less colourful than the colour picker indicates (ie it seems washed out), and ii. The colour that you pick for the CN main window often clashes badly with the colour you select for the note. Here are some screenshots:
http://i.imgur.com/BbouM3B.png (Main CN window vs note colour)
http://i.imgur.com/ZVOPpHd.png (Note colour selected not matching the actual applied note colour)
http://i.imgur.com/0Xi5lqX.png (CN window colour selected not matching the actual applied window colour)
All in all, the CN colours are very washed out for some reason, and really don't do anything to show off CN at all (in the sense of making people look at it and go 'wow, that looks nice, what program is it?'). Anyway, was just wondering what other people thought of the colours in CN. For me, (a) is the biggest issue - I appreciate some colours are always going to clash, but I think (a) makes the effect of (b) worse as well.
Regards,
Chris