Reply To: Iconography

[Rezwan]

Glenn Millam wrote: My use of purple came from the image used as the icon of the site. I’m fine with it, but it is an issue that I think can be discussed and agreed upon by everybody.

The purple icon on the banner is arbitrarily purple. The original image is black and white. Purple is preferred by key people but perhaps they can be tempted by different color schemes 🙂

Oh, LOVE the periodic chart site! Especially with the photographs. And it looks like Beryllium is silvery and sometimes green.

Another thing that can be looked at is a common color scheme. … What would be cool is if you could give me a list of RGB colors that you use on the site for your color scheme, and maybe we’ll play around with them to help unify art to that scheme.

Sorry, not RGB, rather hexadecimal (?) – #6666cc; #ccccff; #000066; #6666ff – that’s pretty much it. And the colors of the forum are what comes with the forum program. It’s going to be a few upgrades before they provide us with customizable color here. Back to the website, it’s all done with a few templates and some css, so if you propose a different color scheme, it won’t be hard to change it sitewide pretty easily. And temporarily, so we can take a look at it and consider the effect. Just translate the RGB into hexadecimal.

I think people coming to this site will really respond to it with the added touches of science-art to go along with everything else.

Absolutely! Thanks so much for doing this!

And finally, the site background image (pictured) is blue, also arbitrarily. Made from the same original, saturated.

Attached files