Icon Folder Colors/Contrast To Bright - A Few Appear Blurry

[0pLuS0]

Hello,

First let me say thanks for keeping up the work on your iconset it's really come a long very nicely, and I really appreciate your time and effort in making it!

I noticed that if I use a themeset like ARC; https://github.com/arc-design/arc-theme

ARC is bright, and with your iconset, the folders in SpaceFM have to much contrast, are a little to bright.

Or it's also that your colors for the folders are possible to bright, they need to be darker.

Try using the ARC themeset in the file manager you use, and see if the folders appear a bit bright to you.

I do know that I have iconsets that are also the same way, so I see this as just a personal preference on your part for making the folders with brighter looking colors.

All I am suggesting here is for people that want to have better contrast of colors, across a wider range of themesets, I think that the folders could use a little darker look to them is all.

On a side note, I'm not sure why this is happening, but for me using SpaceFM the Darknight and Indigo colors, when looking at the folders, they appear slighty blurry. I'm sure it's just an optical illusion, but using SpaceFM with the ARC themset, they don't look right.

Gray is to bright, not gray dark enough, looks more like Silver.

All the other colors are too bright, Default is the nicest looking with a brighter themeset.

I guess the ony way for you to see this for yourself is to install SpaceFM and use the ARC themeset.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

[cbrnix]

The fact is that for the colors I have selected a certain palette. I do not select colors for each icon. They are known in advance. Brightness, hue, saturation - all this from the palette. Therefore, in order to just change some shade, I will have to change all the other icons. With gray, I can only make an extra option by making them darker. The existing shade looks good in some DEs, so it makes no sense to make it darker. As soon as I finish the remaster of monochrome icons, I will think about the options.

[0pLuS0]

I've been around this for a very long time, and I have seen what the major distros do, and for the exact reasons that I am stating, that in order to have an iconset have the greatest usage across a wider sets of themes, the colors can't be as bright as you've made them, otherwise with all the various themesets out there, they don't blend well.

I'm not saying that you have done anything bad, or incorrect, it's really only about personal choices that someone likes, but then it limits the iconset. Like what I mentioned, Bright on Bright, equals to much bright, and washed out contrasts...

I am simply pointing out, that based on someone's theme, these brighter colors are going to limit the amount of themes someone can use.

I'm also not trying to say what you did does not work, it does, it's just that a brighter iconset like this is not as common, and of course people will like it.

I personally think the work is really great, the best way to also look at this, is to really look at and see what the main distros actually did for their folder colors like Mint & Ubuntu you list, and you will see they are darker.

All the major, popular iconsets out there for Linux are darker.

Keep up the great work!

P.S. You really need to use SpaceFM and PCManFM and use the iconset with dark themes too, because in SpaceFM, when using a dark themeset, you can barely see the Toolbar and Menu icons...