Shadows are too strong / overwhelming in light mode

[nekohayo]

While the strong shadows are needed in the dark style (so that you can actually see them on top of the dark gray background), they are too thick in light mode, as they create this very strong border-like line below each card, which adds up to a lot of visual clutter when you look at dozens of cards piled on top of each other.

My suggestions specifically for light mode would be:

• Less thick shadow in light mode, and the box shadow could be centered to be on all 4 sides instead of only the bottom
• Maybe also use a dark charcoal gray color for the background "behind the columns" (i.e. the areas that are truly empty with no text) for short columns, so that we can better see the separation and length of columns. Yes that is a dark color in light mode, but it doesn't actually carry any text so it should make it easier to focus on the actual light contents (columns and their cards or text fields).

[aichingm]

Regarding the border, I get that the border is quite strong in the light mode and could be reduced. For centering the shadow, I was going for a material design look like the elevated card at material.io, I quite like it, my fear would be that having a border on all sides would take away from the post-it like look.

Do you mean using a darker background in the light mode? Interesting...

I will play around a little bit when I get time for it. There are other design related things I would like to clean up (the the mouse cursor shapes, they are just wrong in so many places...).

TODOs:

• [ ] Play with shadow size in light mode
• [ ] Try out a darker background in light mode
• [ ] Check how hard it would be to implement a third "semi light/dark" mode
• [ ] Fix cursor shapes