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PLOS specific color schemes #15

Closed ivangrub closed 10 years ago

ivangrub commented 11 years ago

PLOS Comp Bio, Genetics and Biology use #16A127 (green) and #3C63AF (blue) PLOS One uses #F8AF2D (yellow) and #3C63AF (blue) PLOS Medicine and Neglected Tropical diseases use #891FB1 (purple) and #3C63AF (blue)

Maybe keep the publications blue and change the color for the figure annotations?

michael commented 11 years ago

Thought about this a little bit. I would use those colorschemes for document covers and on the front page (for selecting the journal). However I'd rather not use different colors for figure annotations, given that users might create mental links (green=figure, blue=reference). Thoughts?

What's your take on this @colorcrate?

colorcrate commented 11 years ago

Yeah, I'd agree with you Michael. Even after reading one or two articles the green=figures, blue=references mental link will probably be relatively ingrained. Switching it up would require users retrain themselves and would negatively impact their ability to scan the document until they figured out the new colors.

Document covers would indeed be a good spot for the colors.

ivangrub commented 11 years ago

After some more thought, I agree with both of you. @colorcrate, you are referring to the gray box that includes the title and authors when you mention the document covers, right?

colorcrate commented 11 years ago

Yep. You could probably also change the active colors for nav items to PLOS-like colors too. And perhaps link colors.

Basically all the colored items in this screen shot could have their color changed without harming usability (block in the document tree, gray title/author box, "contents" background color, DOI link).

screen shot 2013-07-05 at 4 11 41 pm

Edit: Although worth considering is whether or not the reason for the color change would be apparent to users if that's the only change we're making. I wonder if it'd also make sense to include some sort of logo treatment in the document cover? Like a little PLOS logo and some "Published in PLOS Genetics" text or something.

michael commented 10 years ago

Custom Plos integration is no longer a priority.