Colour styles and screen layout - ironwoodcall/TagTracker GitHub Wiki
Ties to issue #59
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Chromebook has 23 lines of text.
Proposed (draft) Style Guide for Colours
The most important thing seems to be the naming of the styles and when/where they're used.
Style name | Used for | Possible colours |
---|---|---|
NORMAL | Regular old text, or resetting. | Style.RESET_ALL (white on black) |
ANSWER | A brief informational message from the system when no error state. E.g. "Bike checked in", or answer to tag query | bright white on blue |
TITLE | titles of reports | bright white on blue |
SUBTITLE | E.g. title for a chart within an overall report | bright cyan on black |
PROMPT | prompts from the system to the user | bright green on black |
SUBPROMPT | follow-up prompts from the system | normal green on black |
HIGHLIGHT | table headers | bright cyan on black |
WARN | something a bit wrong (e.g. bad input, not a tag...) | bright red on black |
ERROR | something very wrong...? | black on red? |
Different colour palettes on different devices
Late breaking news: Chromebook has a terminal option for "classic" colour palette that works much better than shown below
Here is what the colours look like on the chromebook:
How it looks on Windows
How it looks in the terminal window of vscode