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:

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How it looks on Windows

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How it looks in the terminal window of vscode

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