Using part colors for section/subsection headings?

[friendly]

I was thinking that the visual look of the book might be improved by using the same color for section and subsection headers as used for the mindmap and chapter titles. What do people think?

It would only involve using something like

\usepackage{sectsty}
\allsectionsfont{\sffamily\color{partcol0}}

rather than

 \usepackage{sfheaders}

The colors come from

\colorlet{col1}{teal}        %% Part I color
\colorlet{col2}{olive}       %% Part II
\colorlet{col3}{orange}      %% Part III

[sciencegraph]

That means that the page number would remain black? If so, I agree that it would improve a search based on the main mindmap.

[friendly]

What I tried (\usepackage{sectsty} ...) doesn't work in chapter.Rnw.

I get lots of warnings, and the section titles appear just as normal text, not colored and not in \sffamily.
Can you look at this? The changes I made, at line 12 are

%\usepackage{sfheaders}        %% Chap/Sec headers in Helvetica; not standard-- maybe switch to sectsty???
\usepackage{sectsty}
\allsectionsfont{\sffamily\color{partcol0}}

[sciencegraph]

I've got the same problem. Let me test some solutions and I'll be back.

[friendly]

I ran a separate test, attached. The problem is the following: ch-sec-color.tex.txt

! Package sectsty Error: The sectsty package doesn't work with
(sectsty)                this document class.

So, need some other solution

[friendly]

I got this to work finally, using the titlesec package, now used in chapter.Rnw. Before I go any further, please take a look at chapter11.pdf and let me know if you think this is any improvement.

If not, I can easily revert it.

[davidjohannesmeyer]

I personally find the new headings pleasant. The Example headings maybe now stand out a bit compared to the light color of the sections headings, IMO. But judgements on colors are quite subjective, of course ...

BTW, maybe we should ask some color-blind person if anything can't be read? That would be embarrassing since we claim in Ch1 that colors should be employed with care.

David

On 2015-10-22 18:45, Michael Friendly wrote:

I got this to work finally, using the |titlesec| package, now used in |chapter.Rnw|. Before I go any further, please take a look at chapter11.pdf and let me know if you think this is any improvement.

If not, I can easily revert it.

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[friendly]

Check out the new chapter11_color*.pdf testing files (prepared by Pere) in the latest commit.

I'm convinced that color in the page headers is an improvement; Pere thinks that's enough; I haven't decided whether I like color in the \section titles or not. You can vote!

A remaining question is whether this use of foreground color is dark enough or whether more black should be added to the tint. Pere will look into this.

[davidjohannesmeyer]

Yes, the colors are too light for the headers. They work much better with the larger, bold section headings, IMO. For some reason, I prefer the black headers---maybe, because the current, light ones attract too much (of my) attention.

David

On 2015-10-22 23:20, Michael Friendly wrote:

Check out the new |chapter11_color*.pdf| testing files (prepared by Pere) in the latest commit.

I'm convinced that color in the page headers is an improvement; Pere thinks that's enough; I haven't decided whether I like color in the \section titles or not. You can vote!

A remaining question is whether this use of foreground color is dark enough or whether more black should be added to the tint. Pere will look into this.

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[sciencegraph]

That is right. Putting color in the headers, since the font is small and its shape is italic, may produce unexpected results once printed.

[friendly]

John Kimmel approves of this use of color for both headers and section titles. I tried this in book.Rnw in the latest commit, darkening up the theme colors a bit, and also using \sffamily in the page headers. (page numbers still in roman)

Take a look, and let me know if this is acceptable.

[sciencegraph]

The last version is better than acceptable.

[davidjohannesmeyer]

The readability is much improved now, although the colors now look a little bit sallow now.

The header color of part III is the same than for part II (olive green instead of ocher)---by purpose?

Best David

On 2015-10-26 13:24, sciencegraph wrote:

The last version is better than acceptable.

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[friendly]

The header color for part III in book.Rnw was wrong. Thanks for catching this. I'll correct.

[friendly]

Done & closed